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Current Quarter |
CSE 457            | Introduction to Computer Graphics | ||
Previous Quarters |
CSE 490ani | Computer Animation | ||
CSE 557 | Computer Graphics | |||
CSE 558 | Special Topics in Computer Graphics | |||
CSE 590B | Graphics Seminar: Numerical Methods in Graphics
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Course Number | CSE 457 |
Credits | 3 |
Prerequisite | CSE 326 |
Description | Techniques of computer image synthesis, including both hardware and software. Line drawing and color raster graphics. Homogeneous coordinates, hidden surface, and smooth shading algorithms. |
Course Number | CSE 523 |
Credits | 3 |
Prerequisites | CSE major and 521 |
Recommended | 457 or equivalent |
Offered | alternate years |
Description | Algorithms for discrete computational geometry. Geometric computation, range searching, convex hulls, proximity, Vornoi Diagrams, intersection. Application areas include VLSI design and computer graphics. |
Course Number | CSE 557 |
Credits | 3 |
Prerequisites | CSE major and knowledge of data structures and linear algebra |
Description | Generation and interpretation of pictures by computer with or without human interaction. Graphics hardware. Display programming. Picture transformation. Representations of pictures and their attributes. Curve and surface design and generation. Input methods. Graphics programming languages and systems. Laboratory project required. |
Course Number | CSE 558 |
Credits | 3 |
Prerequisites | CSE major and 523 or 557 or permission of instructor |
Offered | Alternate years, Spring |
Description | Advanced topics in computer graphics not treated in CSE 557. Topics vary from year-to-year but typically include advance image synthesis and/or computer aided geometric design. |
Comments to mtwong@cs.washington.edu | 18 November 1996 |