Ditto. And this is really groundbreaking material. On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Thanks, Ed! This will be a very exciting class. Count me in. > > -Stephen > > -- > --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... > stephen.gue...@redfish.com > 624 Agua Fria, Santa Fe, NM 87501 > office: 505.995.0206 mobile: 505.577.5828 > > redfish.com | sfcomplex.org | simtable.com | ambientpixel.com > > 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. 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 > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > > ============================================================ > 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 ============================================================ 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
