The following information relates specifically to the CM0304 Graphics module taught at the School of Computer Science, Cardiff University in autumn 2008/09. It provides details about the lectures, tutorials, labs, exercises, exam, etc.

Lectures

• 22 one hour lectures: 2 lectures per week in weeks 1-11.
  Monday 10:00-10:50 in T/0.31, Wednesday 11:10-12:00 in T/0.31.
  Exceptions:
  Lecture on 14/10, 16:10 - 17:00 in T/0.31 instead of tutorial,
  Lecture on 10/11 will be a tutorial instead.
  Lecutres in week starting 10/11 and 17/11 may be given by Jonathan Quinn.
• 2 one hour revision lectures: week 12.
  Monday 10:00-10:50 in T/0.31, Wednesday 11:10-12:00 in T/0.31.
  
• Lecturer: Frank C Langbein

Tutorials

• 5 one hour tutorials: weeks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11.
  Tuesday, 16:10 - 17:00 in T/0.31, but see exceptions above!
• Tutor: Phil A. Legg
• Exercise sheets:
  • Exercises I
  • Exercises II
  • Exercises III
  • Exercises IV
  • Exercises V

Labs

• 2 two hour labs: weeks 4 and 6 on the Linux machines.
  Tuesday, 15:10 - 17:00 in C/2.08 (Linux lab).
• Tutor: Phil A. Legg

Coursework

• Graphics coursework worth 25% of the total marks: you will have to implement some Graphics related program using OpenGL from 20th October 2008 to 1st December 2008.
• Stanford bunny or Teddy ply mesh required to complete the coursework.
• Overall the results were quite good. Question 1 was done very well by nearly everyone. In question 2 the main problem was to compute suitable normals of the surfaces and specify them properly for OpenGL. Those who attempted the advanced features in question 3 did overall well, mainly with issues on transparent surfaces and some on mesh subdivision and particle effects. The code documentation for question 4 was overall quite well done, but some concentrated too much on individual commands without describing the overall structure and ideas behind the code and a few did not provide any notable comments at all.
  • Count: 26 of 27 students submitted
  • Mark range: 0 to 25 of maximal 25 were achieved
  • Median: 19
  • Mean: 18.5
  • Standard deviation: 5.46
  • Mark distribution:
    

Exam

• A two-hour exam at the end of the module worth 75% of the total marks
• CM0304 Graphics Exam 2008/09, Solutions
• Results:
  • Count: 27 of 27 students
  • Mark range: 14 to 62 of maximal 75 were achieved
  • Median: 41
  • Mean: 41.18
  • Standard deviation: 12.17
  • Mark distribution:
    

Marks

Overall marks for the module:

• Count: 27 of 27 students
• Mark range: 28 to 87 of maximal 100 were achieved
• Median: 59
• Mean: 59
• Standard deviation: 15.08
• Mark distribution:
  

Note: all results reported here are preliminary and do not represent the final results considered by the exam board.