Description

Computer Graphics deals with hardware, algorithms and datastructures for the synthesis of images or movies from abstract 3D scene, geometry and material descriptions as well as camera/object motion. This lecture introduces the fundamental concepts of computer graphics. In detail the following mayor topics will be discussed:

• Two and three dimensional object representation
• Affine and perspective mappings
• Scene representations/the scene graph
• Clipping algorithms
• Raster algorithms
• Sampling theorem and antialiasing
• Computing visibility and occlusion
• Color spaces
• Optical material properties and shading
• Textures
• Global illumination
• Graphics hardware architectures and rela time rendering
• Representations of curves and surfaces

Exercises: In the exercises the theoretical concepts of the lecture are examplified in practical programming assignments. Programming is primarily done in Matlab. Serveral exercises focusing on the OpenGL / GLSL library in combination with C++.