Fundamental Computer Graphics

Aim

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• Goal 1: describe the calculation models used in computer graphics for how a synthetic scene is built.
• Goal 2: construct synthetic three-dimensional scenes and generate images and animations of these.
• Goal 3: based on this knowledge, design and implement interactive 3D graphics like simpler virtual worlds, 3D games etc.
• Goal 4: implement shader programs (programming of graphics processors).

Content

The course describes the principles and methods for computer generation of synthetic images, animations and interactive graphics applications.

Real-time animation with OpenGL 3.2 including shader programming with GLSL.

Three-dimensional graphics: geometric transformations, projection, perspective.

Object representation. Light models and shading, Gouraud and Phong shading. Texture mapping. Visible surface detection. Frustum culling, billboards. Animation, basic collision detection.