CS 460/560 Class Notes Introduction to Computer Graphics G. Hill Price

Course syllabus in html format.

Topics

1. Display Devices and Hardware
   1. Hardcopy
   2. Video display devices
   3. Common graphics hardware

2. Coordinate Systems

3. Primitives, Transformations and Clipping
   1. Primitives
      • Bresenham's midpoint alg
      • Digital Differential Analyzer
      • Quadric Curves
   2. Thick Primitives
   3. Characters
   4. Polygons
      • ET
      • AET
   5. Antialiasing
   6. Clipping
   7. Transformations
   8. Projections

4. Window Systems

5. Project Overview
   1. X windows system
   2. X windows programming
      • rubber_band.c source code
      • rubber_band executable
      • rubber_band.c compile command, Linux
      • more X information and examples
   3. OpenGl programming
      • OpenGL Basics
      • draw_points.c Source Code
      • OpenGL Transformations
      • Interesting Program Fragments
   4. Projects
      • Austerlitz
      • Chancellorsville
      • Guadalcanal
      • Bismarck
      • Little Big Horn
      • Seven Days
      • Shenandoah

6. Colors and Dithering

7. Curves, Surfaces and Solids
   1. Curves and Surfaces
   2. Solids

8. Data Structures for Polygon Meshes

9. Hidden Line-Surface Algorithms
   1. Back-Face Culling
   2. Object Precision
      • Depth Sort
      • List Priority Algorithm
      • Area Subdivision
   3. Image Precision
      • Polygon Method (Scanline)
      • Z-buffer
      • Ray Tracing (Ray Casting)

10. Shadows, Shading and Lighting
    1. Shading
       • General Illumination Eq.
       • Interpolated Shading
       • Ray Casting
       • Recursive Ray Tracing
       • Radiosity
       • Shadows
    2. Surface Detail
       • Parameterization
       • Mapping
       • Filtering
       • Tessellation
       • Methods:
         • Texture Map
         • Bump Map
         • Displacement (height) Map
         • Voxels
    3. Transparency

11. Advanced Graphics Concepts
    1. Animation and Fractals
    2. JPEG Standard and Data Compression
    3. Robotic Vision
    4. 3-D Technologies
    5. Rendering Pipeline
       • Transforms
       • Camera (Viewing Transform)
       • Lighting (Direct and Global)
       • Rasterization
    6. Advanced Graphics Hardware
       • SGI Graphics System(old)
       • Sun Graphics System
       • From a Board to a Chip
       • Modern General Purpose GPU's
       • Maxwell Streaming Multiprocessor
       • Maxwell Full GPU
       • Pascal Full GPU
       • Turing Full GPU

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Updated 4/27/2018