1. Computer Graphics (under) Sep., 2004 Jung Hong Chuang CSIE NCTU

2. Basic information Instructor – 莊榮宏 jhchuang@csie 工三館 525 5731829 TA – 呂宗弘 阮昭維 {jhlu, vicjuan}@csie 工三館 513 x54787 Focus –3D graphics: theory and practice –Intro to 3D game and animation technologies Web page –Cggmwww.csie.nctu.edu.tw

3. Course Part 1: 3D graphics –Pipelined graphics –Global illumination Part 2 –Texture mapping and shadowing –Nature phenomena

4. Course outline 3D graphics -1 Overview –Hardware for graphics –Software for graphics –Graphics API: OpenGL, Direct3D –Application API OpenInventer 3D Game engines Visual simulation tools Virtual reality tools

5. Course outline 3D graphics -2 Basic 2D graphics –2D drawing, 2D clipping –geometric transformation 3D viewing and projection Local illumination –Color model –Illumination, shading

6. Course outline 3D graphics -3 Visibility determination –Back-facing, depth-sorting, scan-line, –Z-buffering –Binary space partition (BSP) Global illumination –Ray tracing –Radiosity

7. Course outline Texture mapping and shadow -4 2D-to-3D Texture mapping Bump mapping, Environment map, Multitexturing, Billboarding, Light map, Normal map, Pixel shader Projective texture mapping Shadow map, Shadow volume, Shadow with projective texture mapping

8. Course outline Nature phenomena -5 Particle system Cloud model/rendering Terrain generation/rendering Fluid modeling/rendering

9. Grading One midterm (20%) One final (20%) Programming assignments (60%) –2 programs (10+20)% –1 project (30%) Project (rendering, interaction, and content) Game design Project contest

10. Reference books References –Interactive computer graphics, 2nd ed., by Angel –Intro. To Computer Graphics by Foley, Van Dam, … –Real-time rendering, 2nd ed. By Moller and Haines –3D Game Engine Design by Eberly