Seminar (mit Bachelorarbeit) Seminar aus Computergraphik WS 2009 Organizers: Muddassir Malik, M. Eduard Gröller Teaching staff: Andrej Varchola, Erald Vuçini, Peter Rautek, Philipp Muigg, Martin Haidacher Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms Vienna University of Technology

Muhammad Muddassir Malik 1 Seminar Mission statement "Write a scientific state of the art report" Tasks Literature list Written report GMA lecture of Prof. Werner Purgathofer Talk Active discussion participation

Muhammad Muddassir Malik 2 Written Reports 8 ( ) or 15 ( ) pages per student Preferably in English Format reports in the style of a scientific paper Use LaTeX Some reports from the previous year available Students can work in groups of two

Muhammad Muddassir Malik 3 Talk Use Institute’s PowerPoint template for presentations minutes talk In English Active discussion participation is mandatory and will be graded

Muhammad Muddassir Malik 4 Important Dates List of literature due on: 19 th October, 2009 GMA lecture on: 27 th Nov, :00 – 14:30, GM3 Written reports due on: 5 th December, 2009 Presentations on: 17 th December, 2009 from 8:30 to 17:00 in the Seminar room of ICGA

Muhammad Muddassir Malik 5 Topics CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) Graphics Processing Units Latest Illumination Models for Volume Rendering Mobile Computing Multi-resolution Volume Rendering Particle-based Visualization Volume Rendering for Structured and Unstructured Grids

CUDA Parallel computing architechture Supports programming languages like C Developed for GPU Produced by nVidia CPU-GPU collaboration Muhammad Muddassir Malik 6

Graphics Processing Units Study on: Variety of GPUs Evolution of GPU architechture Application scenarios for GP-GPU Muhammad Muddassir Malik 7

Latest Illumination Models for Volume Rendering Illumination models for CT, MRI and US Scattering dominates Survey of illumination models Muhammad Muddassir Malik 8

Mobile Computing Open source mobile platforms like Android Study: Trends and technologies Integration of smartphone technologies in daily life Muhammad Muddassir Malik 9

Multi-resolution Volume Rendering Volume data exceeds today’s graphical and display capabilities Visualizing according to importance Muhammad Muddassir Malik 10

Particle-based Visualization Datasets based on particles Volumetric reconstruction from such datasets Muhammad Muddassir Malik 11

Volume Rendering for Structured and Unstructured Grids Structured grids Unstructured grids Volume rendering techniques Muhammad Muddassir Malik 12

A very short introduction to LaTeX LaTeX Muhammad Muddassir Malik 13

A very short introduction to LaTeX „Programming“ a text document Similarities to HTML No WYSIWYG Most convenient to use a LaTeX distribution and a LaTeX IDE (integrated development environment) Muhammad Muddassir Malik 14

A very short introduction to LaTeX First install a LaTeX Distribution MiKTeX Then a LaTeX IDE TeXnicCenter Texmaker LEd Muhammad Muddassir Malik 15

A very short introduction to LaTeX MiKTeX "Basic MiKTeX" Installer Adds the MiKTeX \bin directory to the PATH Muhammad Muddassir Malik 16

A very short introduction to LaTeX Extract the archive acmsiggraph.zip Open a command line window Go to the directory where template.tex is On command line type: epstopdf sample.eps In LaTeX IDE open template.tex Change all sample.eps to sample.pdf Produce PDF document In TeXnicCenter open template.tex Select LaTeX=>PS output profile Produce a PS document Convert PS to PDF using Adobe Distiller Muhammad Muddassir Malik 17

A very short introduction to LaTeX Work with 2 files: A.tex file for the text A.bib file for the bibliography which is used by the citations command \cite Muhammad Muddassir Malik 18

Muhammad Muddassir Malik 19 Seminar Questions?