Instructor: Tamara Munzner, tmm@cs

Instructor office hours: FSC 2618. Mondays 10:30-11:30, and as announced.

TAs: Abhijeet Ghosh (ghosh@cs), Alan Woo (awoo@cs), Peng Zhao (pzhao@cs)

TA Lab Sessions: All lab sessions held in CICSR 011, starting week 2.

Lab 1A	Wed	13:00-14:00	Woo
Lab 1B	Wed	14:00-15:00	Zhao
Lab 1C	Thu	11:00-12:00	Woo
Lab 1D	Thu	12:00-13:00	Ghosh
Lab 1E	Fri	10:00-11:00	Ghosh

Prerequisites:

• CPSC 216 (Program Design and Data Structures)
• MATH 200 (Calculus III)
• MATH 221/223 (Matrix Algebra/Linear Algebra)
• C/C++ programming skills

Content: Topics to be covered include most or all of the following: the basics of 2D and 3D rendering; the rendering pipeline; scan conversion; colour models; geometry data structures; geometric transformations; perspective projection; hidden surface removal; lighting and illumination; texture mapping; texture filtering; complex shading algorithms; ray-tracing; animation.

Previous versions:

• Fall 2002-2003
• Spring 2002-2003

Policies: Grading | Missed Work | Plagiarism

Grading

Late policy: It is important that assigned work be completed on time. To allow for unforeseeable circumstances, you will be allowed three days of grace during the quarter, which can be used on any assignment or project with no explanation required. Use these as you wish to help manage your time, but use them wisely. You can use all three on one assignment, or spread the days across multiple assignments. We strongly recommend that you do not use all your grace days early in the term.

Beyond your three grace days, late assignments will cause you to be penalized by 20% of the possible mark for that assignment per day that it is late. Late demos will be accommodated subject to the availability of the TAs. If the late demo slots for a particular day are full, you may be delayed another day, possibly incurring a penalty. Exceptions to this late policy will be made only with advance approval from the instructor; or medical, emotional, or other problems documented in writing as below.

Religious Holidays: Students who are scheduled to attend classes or write examinations on the holy days of their religion must notify the instructor in writing two weeks in advance of the religious holiday they wish to observe. The instructor will provide opportunity for students to make up the missed work or examination without penalty. See the Calendar entry on Religious Holidays

Evaluating Missed Work: If a student is unable to turn in an assignment or write an exam due to medical, emotional or other reasons recognized by the University, one of the following
courses of action will be taken after receipt of appropriate documentation of the situation.

1. At the discretion of the instructor (for example, when solutions have not yet been distributed), the student will be allowed to turn in an assignment or project late without the late penalty.
2. Usually the assignment or the exam will receive a computed mark that is judged to be equivalent to what the student would normally be expected to have received had the assignment or exam been completed by the student. The specific calculation will involve a ``scaled z-score'' in which the computed mark will be based on the class average and standard deviation for that mark, the class average mark(s) and standard deviation(s) for related work, and the student's actual mark(s) for the related work. The computed mark will be such that it is the same number of standard deviations from the class average as for the related mark(s). Usually the related mark(s) will be of the same category (i.e., assignments will be used for a missed assignment and exams will be used for a missed exam).
3. If the missed work is a significant portion of the term mark, then a standing of AEGROTAT may be awarded, as provided for by the University's policies. A student will always be able to elect this option if the missed work is a final exam.
4. In rare cases, where there is clear justification, a deferred examination may be given to the student if the missed work is a final examination, subject to approval by the Office of the Dean of Science.

Documentation of Severe Illness or Other Problems: It is the responsibility of the student to provide adequate documentation of the situation and to inform the instructor in a timely manner so that the necessary appropriate action can be taken. Usually it is expected that the student will provide a written explantion of the situation to the instructor within three days of returning to the University after any absence or period of illness or other problem. In no case will documents be considered more than seven days after a student has returned to the University. The form for missed work must be submitted; talking to or emailing the instructor is not an acceptable substitute for submitting the required form.

Read the Computer Science Department's Guidelines and Practives Regarding Collaboration and UBC Policy #69 on Student Discipline. Consult the University's policies and procedures regarding academic offenses for more information on plagiarism and the penalties sanctioned by the University.

Collaboration or Reuse of Source Code

• his or her files (which contain material the use of which, by another student, would constitute an act of plagiarism as herein defined) are inaccessible to other students,
• current or out-of-date hardcopy of her or his files (which contain material the use of which, by another student, would constitute an act of plagiarism as herein defined) is inaccessible to other students, and
• communication with other students does not include information the use of which, by another student, would constitute an act of plagiarism as herein defined.

Plagiarism on Exams

Penalties

A second offence within the context of CPSC 414 (across all years, terms, etc.) shall cause the student to receive a grade of 0 for the course, the student will not be permitted to enroll in further offerings of CPSC 414, and the Chair of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee will receive a report detailing the particulars of the case. Further disciplinary action may be undertaken by the department, faculty, or university.

For students not enrolled in CPSC 414 when the incident of plagiarism occurred, the student will not be permitted to enroll in further offerings of CPSC 414, and the Chair of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee will receive a report detailing the particulars of the case. Further disciplinary action may be undertaken by the department, faculty, or university.

The instructor reserves the right to exercise leniency as she sees fit.