CAP4021 - Building Virtual Worlds
	Syllabus - Fall 2000
	J. Michael Moshell, Professor
	Glenn Martin, Tom Clarke - Lecturers
Week	Date	Monday	Lecture	Text		Wednesday	Lecture	Text
	PART 1: Introductory Computer Graphics & HTML - Moshell
1	21-Aug	--no class yet--	--			Objectives	L1	V1,2
2	28-Aug	Intro Cptr Graphics	L2	V3.1, 3.2		Perspective	L3	V3.3,3.4,3.5
3	4-Sep	Labor Day	--	--		VRML Concepts	L4	web
4	11-Sep	VRML Time, Scripts	L5	web		Shared Worlds	L5a	web
							Labs assigned, 9/13
5	18-Sep	Avatars	L5b	web		Alice	L10	web		L7	V3.9
6	25-Sep	Illumination	L6	V3.4-3.8		Reflection	L7	V3.10-15
7	2-Oct	Microsoft Direct3D	L15	web		Terrain Data; GIS	L12	web
							Lab1 demo 10/4; Midterm issued 10/4
	Part 2: Hard Core Graphics and Virtual Reality - Clarke, Martin
8	9-Oct	Modeling	L9	V4		Field Trip 1	to IST's VR Lab
9	16-Oct	Transformations	L9b	V51-5.3		Field Trip 2	to IST's VR Lab
							Midterm turned in: 10/18
10	23-Oct	Interaction	L11	V5.4-5.7		Generic VR Sys	L13	V6
11	30-Oct	Motion	L14	V7		Physical Sim	L16	V8
							Lab2 demo 11/2
12	6-Nov	OpenGL	L17	--		Human Factors	L18	V9
13	13-Nov	VR Hardware	L19	V10		tbd
14	20-Nov	Modeling Plants	L20	--		tbd
15	27-Nov	Cellular Automata	L21	--			Lab 3 Demo, 11/29, in class
16	4-Dec	Review for Final				FINAL EXAM:	Dec. 12/5-12/11, sometime
	J. Michael Moshell
	Professor of Computer Science
	moshell@cs.ucf.edu
	407 823 5341
	Tom Clarke
	Research Scientist, Institute for Simulation & Training
	tclark@ist.ucf.edu
	407 658 5030
	Glenn Martin
	Research Scientist, Institute for Simulation & Training
	martin@ist.ucf.edu
	407 658 5000