Undergraduate - UnitFIT3088 - Computer graphics

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• mathematical representations of basic geometric primitives in Euclidean space, such as points, lines, polygons and parametric curves;
• how to use homogeneous co-ordinates and transformations on geometric objects in two and three dimensions.
• how to combine multiple transformations efficiently;
• orthographic, parallel and perspective projections and their related homogeneous transformations;
• appropriate data structures for hierarchical representation of polygonal datasets;
• rasterisation algorithms for drawing in frame buffers;
• the use of Quaternions to represent object rotation;
• a synthetic camera model for viewing and projecting of two and three-dimensional geometry;
• algorithms for hidden surface removal and backface elimination. The capacity to analyse the space and time complexity of these algorithms to determine the most appropriate in a given situation;
• BRDF Shading models such as Lambert, Phong, Blinns Phong, Torrance-Sparrow-Blinn-Cook-Beckmann, Oren-Nayar;
• textures and texture mapping;
• basic knowledge of aliasing theory;
• interpolative shading models. Shadow algorithms. Local and global illumination models;
• the OpenGL state-machine, GPUs and graphics pipline.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• understand the role and value of visual communication in the arts and sciences;
• appreciate the uses and application of interactive, real-time graphics and software rendering.

Developed the skills to:

• program basic interactive graphics applications in OpenGL;
• apply computer graphics theory and algorithms to the design of visual computing applications.