CS 4300 — Computer Graphics

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath CENUpath WIusually offered: fall, springBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Charts a path through every major aspect of computer graphics with varying degrees of emphasis. Discusses hardware issues: size and speed; lines, polygons, and regions; modeling, or objects and their relations; viewing, or what can be seen (visibility and perspective); rendering, or how it looks (properties of surfaces, light, and color); transformations, or moving, placing, distorting, and animating and interaction, or drawing, selecting, and transforming.

Prerequisites

all of:
- one of:
  - CS 2510 (min D-)
  - CS 3100 (min D-)
  - CIS 310M
  - CS 3500 (min D-)
  - EECE 2560 (min D-)
- one of:
  - CS 2810 (min D-)
  - DS 3000 (min D-)
  - MATH 1260 (min D-)
  - MATH 2331 (min D-)
  - MATH 2341 (min D-)
  - MATH 315M

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Fall 2023	1	35	40	88%	5.0
Spring 2024	1	50	50	100%	0.0
Fall 2024	1	39	40	98%	1.0
Spring 2025	1	53	60	88%	7.0
Fall 2025	1	26	49	53%	23.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 39% · W 17% · Th 0% · F 39%

Common patterns: async (44% of sections), TF (39% of sections), W (17% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Michael Shah (74% of students) · reviews
Amit Shesh (26% of students) · reviews

Spring

Amit Shesh (51% of students) · reviews
Michael Shah (49% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Links

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