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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:

Labs

2 two hour labs: weeks 4 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: 25 of 27 students submitted
- Mark range: 0 to 25 of maximal 25 were achieved
- Mean: 18.72
- Standard deviation: 5.45
- Median: 19
- Mark distribution: