Basic Techniques in Computer Graphics

Important information:

• There is one tutorial every Thursday at 12:15 and one every Friday at 15:00.
• Topics covered on Thursday are identical to those covered on Friday, i.e. there is no need to attend both tutorials.
• The first tutorial is on Thursday, Oct. 22 at PPS H2.
• The second tutorial is on Friday, Oct. 23 in Room 9222 in the E3 building, 2nd floor.
• The location of Thursday's tutorial might change some time in the future, depending on how many students attend. Watch the L²P course room for any announcements.
• If you don't know where room 9222 is, please refer to the information at the Campus Office.
• If you don't know where the E3 building is, please refer to the information on our web site.
• All lecture material, exercise sheets and solutions as well as important announcements will be handled through the L²P course room.

Topics covered in the lecture include:

• Foundations of geometry representations
  • polygonal meshes
  • volumetric representations
  • freeform curves and surfaces
  • 3D transformations
• Local illumination
  • clipping
  • rasterization
  • local lighting
  • shading
• Global illumination
  • visibility problem
  • shadow computation
  • ray tracing
  • radiosity
• OpenGL Rendering
  • shader
  • texturing
  • multi-pass rendering
  • image post processing
• Optimization Structures
• Volume Rendering

The OpenGL primer samples can be found here.