Graphics 2 (06-02408): Additional course material

Lecturer: Professor Ales Leonardis

Demonstrator: M. Sc. Vladislav Kramarev

Course description

• Module description and syllabus

Schedule:

• Thursday 2pm-4pm, place varies (see the schedule below)
• Friday 3pm-5pm, 52 Pritchatts Road SR15

• Week 18 - Gisbert Kapp LT2
• Weeks 19, 21, 23 - Education G33
• Weeks 20, 24 - Watson LTA
• Weeks 25, 26 - Biosciences 301

Lecture slides

• Aims of the course
• Introduction: scope, applications, history
• Defining 3D objects - coordinate systems, surface and volumetric representations
• Surfaces: sweep representations. Basic 3D transformations - revision
• Surfaces: parametric representations
• Introduction to surface rendering; Surface normals
• Illumination and Shading
• Colour
• Virtual camera
• Viewing transformations
• Animation
• Raster Conversion
• Splines
• Scan-Line Area Fill
• Hidden Surface Removal
• Texture mapping
• Ray tracing (Slide credit to Philipp Slusallek)
• Revision Lecture

Homework assignments

• Assignment 1: Vector and matrix operations
• Assignment 2: Surface representations and sweep functions
• Assignment 3: Homogeneous coordinates, Surface normals
• Assignment 4: Illumination and shading
• Assignment 5: Colour and Viewing Transformations
• Assignment 6: Bresenham's algorithm
• Assignment 7: Bezier curve

Additional learning materials

• Example of the file in *.obj format 310.obj
• Derivation of the Bresenham's line drawing algorithm.
• Example of computing a spline curve: step-by-step example.
• How does kinect work