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Basic Techniques in Computer Graphics


Semester:

WS 2023

Type:

Lecture

Lecturer:

Credits:

ECTS 6 (V3/Ü2)

Contact:

cg1@cs.rwth-aachen.de
Note: This page is for a course from a previous semester.
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Course Dates:

Type

Date

Room

Lecture Tuesdays, 12:30 CET AH V
Tutorial Wednesdays, 16:30 CET AH V
Lecture Thursdays, 12:30 CET AH V

Organization

  • The first lecture will be on Tuesday October, 17th
  • The first tutorial will be on Wednsday October, 25th
  • Neither lecture nor exercises will be recorded.

Contents

  • Geometry Representations
    • Polygonal Meshes
    • Volumetric Representations
    • Point Clouds
    • Free-Form Curves and Surfaces
    • Voronoi Diagrams
    • 3D Transformations
    • Spatial Optimization Structures
  • Perspective
    • Projections
    • Vanishing Points
  • Rendering Pipeline
    • Clipping
    • Polygon Triangulation
    • Rasterization
  • Global Illumination
    • Visibility Problem
    • Shadow Computation
    • Ray Tracing
    • Radiosity
  • Textures
  • Light and Shadow
  • Colors

Literature

  • Preliminary Lecture Notes (Part 1) (These do not cover the entire lecture! Download only accessible from within the RWTH network)
  • Preliminary Lecture Notes (Part 2) (Only parts of this are relevant for this lecture! Download only accessible from within the RWTH network)
  • Tomas Akenine-Möller et al.: Real-Time Rendering (3rd Edition). Taylor & Francis, 2008.
  • Alan Watt: 3D Computer Graphics (3rd Edition). Addison-Wesley, 1993.

  • Virtual Box Image (Download only accessible from within the RWTH network)

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