Description

3D Computer Graphics is used nowadays in many applications: from entertainment, to virtual reality, to scientific visualization. Most of devices, inlcuding mobile phone and tablet PC, integrate hardware accelerator that allow to represent 3D animations in real-time. The goal of this course is to give the basic tools to understand these technologies, focusing on real time rendering.

Topics

1 – Redering pipeline, and hardware and software architectures for 3D graphics.

2 – Basic transformation: translation, rotation, scaling and projection.

3 – Basic of computational geometry, clipping and hidden surface removal.

4 – Lighting: light sources, materials, shaders, surface normals.

5 – Texture: projection, mapping, , texture animation, alpha mapping, bump mapping, normal mapping.

6 – Advanced effects: reflection maps, BRDF models, environment maps, global illumination maps.

7 - Animation: scene graph, Bezier curves, quaternion.

The exam does not have any special pre-requisite.

The evaluation will be composed by a written exam.

An alternative evaluation form consists in a project that requires the application of the techniques described during the course: this type of evaluation however is intended only for very motivated students that explicitly request it.