Spring 2001 

COMPUTER SCIENCE 174 SECTION 3
Elements of Computer Graphics 
 
Instructor: STEFANO SOATTO (soatto@ucla.edu)
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00, 4531E Boelter Hall or by appointment.
Teaching Assistant: Ma Li (Mary) mary@cs.ucla.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Final Examination Code:
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; recitation, two hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 32. DETAILED SYLLABUS.
Textbook: Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, "Computer Graphics", second edition, Addison Wesley, 1997.
Units: 4.0
Grading Detail: Letter grade only. Grading policy for undergraduates: laboratory (50%), midterm examination (20%), final examination(20%), class participation (10%). Grading policy for graduate students: midterm examination (20%), class participation (10%), final project (70%). Final project is chosen by the student and subject to approval by the instructor.
Undergraduates can request to substitute laboratory work and final examination with a final project and be graded according to grading policy for graduate students (subject to instructor's approval). "Class participation" consists in answering questions in class, volunteering for exercises, proposing solutions.
Enrollment Restrictiony: 1. CS,EE,CYBER,CS&L,MATH-COMP JR&SR
Prerequisites: CS32 (enforced), good programming/debugging skills in UNIX environment, C/C++, linear algebra, matrix calculus (strongly recommended).