Advanced Computer Graphics Instructor: Jingliang Peng Professor, Shandong University

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Course Materials Lecture notes Papers Websites – – – – /default.htm /default.htm – – – APHICS/FIFTH_EDITION/ APHICS/FIFTH_EDITION/ Selected book chapters

Prerequisites Basic computer graphics course Good programming skills in C (or C++) Data Structures Simple Linear Algebra

Requirements (Tentative) 2 assigned projects (40%) – Platform: windows – Language: C 1 self-picked project (40%) – Coding – Written report – Oral presentation Class participation (20%) Written assignments and tests? NO plagiarism!!!

Topics Covered (Tentative) Geometry Rendering Animation Special Topics

Geometry 3D object representation – Surfaces Mesh data structure Parametric surface Subdivision surface Implicit surface – Solids Voxels BSP tree CSG

Geometry 3D graphics data reduction – 3D model simplification – 3D model compression – 3D motion capture data compression – 3D animation simplification and compression 3D mesh manipulation – 3D model remeshing – 3D model parameterization

Rendering Global rendering – Ray tracing – Radiosity Image-based rendering Parallel rendering

Animation Kinematics and dynamics Human body motion synthesis Human facial motion synthesis Skinning for animation

Special Topics Wavelet techniques in computer graphics Procedural methods GPU Rendering techniques...