Basic Techniques in Computer Graphics

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Semester:	WS 2024
Type:	Lecture
Lecturer:	Prof. Dr. Leif Kobbelt
Credits:	ECTS 6 (V3/Ü2)
Contact:	cg1@cs.rwth-aachen.de

Course Dates:

Type	Date	Room
Lecture	Tuesdays, 12:30 CET	AH V
Lecture	Thursdays, 10:30 CET	AH V
Tutorial	Thursdays, 12:30 CET	AH I

Organization

• The first lecture will be on Tuesday October, 8th
• The first tutorial will be on Thursday October, 10th
• Neither lecture nor exercises will be recorded.

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