Basic Techniques in Computer Graphics

Organization

• An introductory lecture will take place on Tuesday, October 27 at 12:30 via Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided in moodle.
• The first tutorial is on Thursday, October 29.
• There will be no tutorial on November 5.

Contents

• Geometry Representations
  • Polygonal Meshes
  • Volumetric Representations
  • Point Clouds
  • Free-Form Curves and Surfaces
  • Voronoi Diagrams
  • 3D Transformations
  • Spatial Optimization Structures
• Perspective
  • Projections
  • Vanishing Points
• Rendering Pipeline
  • Clipping
  • Polygon Triangulation
  • Rasterization
• Global Illumination
  • Visibility Problem
  • Shadow Computation
  • Ray Tracing
  • Radiosity
• Textures
• Light and Shadow
• Colors

Literature

• Preliminary Lecture Notes (Part 1) (These do not cover the entire lecture! Download only accessible from within the RWTH network)
• Preliminary Lecture Notes (Part 2) (Only parts of these are relevant for this lecture! Download only accessible from within the RWTH network)
• Tomas Akenine-Möller et al.: Real-Time Rendering (3rd Edition). Taylor & Francis, 2008.
• Alan Watt: 3D Computer Graphics (3rd Edition). Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Virtual Machine for Programming Assignments

For the rare case that your system does not meet the requirements to run our programming assignments, we prepared a virtual machine for you as a fallback. Please only use the machine as a last resort, since it has very limited performance! (OpenGL will be emulated in software.)

• Virtual Box Image (Download only accessible from within the RWTH network)