Ed: I'm interested, but do you have a sense of how many times a week and when the class will meet? In any case, I'll sign up (if I can do it as a audit; I don't need no stinkin' credits) and pay the fees if it will help the course "make."
-tom johnson On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote: > 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. <http://www.cs.unm.edu/%7Eangel/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://www.cs.unm.edu/%7Eangel> > http://artslab.unm.edu > http://sfcomplex.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com ==========================================
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