Computer Graphics Programming (med5) Date of last revision: May 19, 2010 People known to be working on this

Date of last revision: May 19, 2010

People known to be working on this:

Martin Kraus

Rasmus Stenholt

Lars Reng

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  Understanding of the accelerated graphics rendering pipeline
  
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  Understanding of the mathematical transformations involved in creating 2D projections from 3D models
  
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  Understanding of how a real time local illuminations model works, e.g., the Phong reflection model
  
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  Understanding of various performance and quality increasing techniques for real-time computer graphics
  

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  Ability to apply a graphics API such as OpenGL for developing accelerated 3D graphics applications containing simple procedurally generated/controlled content and elements of user control for interaction
  
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  Ability to set up a simple interactive game in a commercial game engine
  

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  Ability to analyze a design for an application involving real-time computer graphics and choose whether it is most suitably implemented using a graphics API or using a game engine.
  
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  Ability to communicate on technical terms with personnel possessing a more advanced level of graphics and game programming competences.
  

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  Introduction to graphics hardware and software, and the rendering pipeline
  
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  Primitives, colors, and normals
  
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  Transformation matrices: viewing and modeling, projections
  
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  Hidden surface removal: culling and z-buffering
  
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  Efficiency and performance issues
  
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  Lighting (Phong reflection model) and shading (flat, Goraud, and Phong)
  
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  Blending, anti-aliasing, texturing, mip-mapping
  
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  Frame buffers, including stencil
  
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  (I am proposing that we skip this) Scene graphs
  
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  Introduction to vertex and fragment programs
  
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  Below this line: additions relative to the existing MED5 course
  
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  Techniques for real-time shadow generation
  
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  Introduction to a commercial game engine such as Unity
  
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  Introduction to graphical, web-based applications