CS 534 Advanced Computer Graphics

Catalog Description: Realism in Computer Graphics: hidden surface removal, rendering, surface, modeling, ray tracing, radiosity. Advanced modeling techniques: surface patches, solid modeling, scan conversion. Scientific visulaization. Architectures for computer graphics. Prerquisite: CS/EECE 433.

Tentative Outline

• Programmable Pipelines
  • Review of Graphics Pipeline
  • Shading Languages
  • Vertex and Fragement Shaders
  • GLSL and Cg
  • Applications
    • Advanced Color and Reflection Models
    • Morphing and Warping
    • Texture
    • Bump Maps
    • Environment Maps
• Rendering Methods
  • High Quality Rendering: Renderman
  • Radiosity
  • Ray Tracing
  • Parallelization
• Buffer Techniques
  • Shadows
  • Alpha Belending
  • Compositing
  • Stencil Buffer
  • Accumulation Buffer
• Procedural Methods
  • Language based models
  • Fractals
  • Particle Systems
• Curves and Surfaces
  • Bezier
  • B-Splines
  • NURBS
  • Rendering algorithms
• Scientific Visualization
  • Volume Visualization
    • Splatting
    • Marching Cubes
    • Ray Tracing
  • Vector Field Visualization
  • Tensor Field Visualization

  Text: Ed Angel, Interactive Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2006
  Selected readings

  References:
  

  Alan Watt, 3D Computer Graphics (2nd Edition), Addison-Wesley, 1993
  OpenGL Programmer's Guide, Addison-Wesley
  Muller and Haines, Real-Time Rendering, AK Peters

  
  

  Grading:
  

  2-3 Programming Projects assigned in class (50%)
  Term project (50%)