Lecture: Introduction to Computer Graphics and Visualization

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.