A number of you have shown interest in having a course in Computer Graphics at the Complex. I've been working with UNM on it so that those of you who are interested and what credit for the class can do that. So here is what I'm proposing to do.
We'll do the equivalent of UNM's CS/EECE 412 Introduction to Computer Graphics which counts for both undergraduate and graduate credit. I'm hoping we can use the new edition of my textbook "Interactive Computer Graphics" which should come out around March. If it isn't available, my publisher will get us copies of the first couple of chapters which we can use until the book is available. The course is an introduction to Computer Graphics using OpenGL. The significance of the new edition is that it will be the first textbook that uses the latest versions of OpenGL which are totally shader based. Consequently we should be able to do projects on PCs or Macs with any version of OpenGL from 3.1 up to 4.1 or on cell phones with OpenGL ES 2.0 or through browsers with WebGL. All these versions are almost identical so participants should be able to pick their platform and programming language. The content includes hardware and software, geometry, viewing, modeling, procedural methods, curves and surfaces. An old syllabus from UNM is at www.cs.unm.edu/~angel/CS433. In the modern version that we'll do, everything will be done using shaders on the GPU. I'd like to keep the format where we all do a few startup projects and then each participant picks a project to do. The plan is to start around March 1 and do the class over the next couple of months ending at the close of UNM's spring semester. To make this work for those who want credit and to earn some much needed funds for the Complex, I need seven people to register for UNM credit. Otherwise, I don't really care if others sit in as long as they participate. Not only is the subject of interest to a lot of you, if we can do this course successfully with UNM, it will lead to a long term relationship under which we could offer more courses at the Complex for which credit will be available. I'll also be working on an on line version at the same time which could also be a test case for future offerings through the Complex. Please let me know if you are interested. It would be good to have an organizational meeting sometime next week, perhaps a round table at Wedtech next week if nothing else has been scheduled yet. Ed __________ Ed Angel Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe Complex Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel http://artslab.unm.edu http://sfcomplex.org
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