Introduction to Graphics
Lectures
All the lectures in this course are available as prerecorded videos (check the "Recordings" tab above). The first lecture with a short briefing on how the ticks are organized will be delivered live via Zoom and available as a recording. The schedule below can help you plan watching lecture videos. You are free to watch the videos at any time, but make sure that you have watched the listed lecture videos by the given date. This is to ensure that you have all the information you need to solve the ticks.
- Thursday, November 4, 11:00am - join for a live lecture via Zoom (link in Moodle), then watch L01_Background.
- Tuesday, November 9 - watch L02_Rendering_part1 and L02_Rendering_part2.
- Thursday, November 11 - drop in for Zoom Q&A session (Zoom link in Moodle) and watch L03_Graphics_pipeline_part1 and L03_Graphics_pipeline_part2.
- Tuesday, November 16 - watch L03_Graphics_pipeline_part3 and L04_Rasterization.
- Thursday, November 18 - drop in for in-person Q&A session (in LT1) and watch L05_Graphics_hadrware_part1 and L05_Graphics_hadrware_part2.
- Tuesday, November 23 - watch L05_Graphics_hadrware_part3 and L05_Graphics_hadrware_part4.
- Thursday, November 25 - drop in for in-person Q&A session (in LT1) and watch L06_Vision_and_color_part1 and L06_Vision_and_color_part2.
- Tuesday, November 30 - watch L06_Vision_and_color_part3 and L07_Tone_mapping.
If you have any questions regarding lectures, please join one of the drop-in Q&A sessions or post your question on the Moodle forum. Some of the Q&A sessions will be via Zoom, others will be in person - please see the schedule above.
Extra past exam equations
Because this course in the current format is given only for the 4th year, few past exam questions are available. More questions can be found for the old Part Ib course Computer Graphics and Image Processing here. Note, however, that the old course had a very different scope (full-term 16-lecture course) so the questions can be checked only for the format, not for the content.
Ticks
There are two ticks to be completed in this course with the deadlines on:
- Tick 1 - Introduction to Ray Tracing: 15 November 2021
- Tick 2 - Real-time rendering with OpenGL: 29 November 2021
The work needs to be submitted via Moodle course page. The detailed instruction can be found on the Moodle course pages.
Supplementary material
These references to external websites are intended to be useful, but the links are provided without any particular endorsement and with no guarantee of accuracy.
- OpenGL API documentation at OpenGL.org
- How the human eye works from Animagraffs
- CIE 1931 (XYZ) colour space (from Wikipedia)
- A wide range of instructional materials covering various areas in Computer Graphics, provided by ACM SIGGRAPH, including materials on colour spaces, colour reproduction, texture and bump mapping, lines and circle drawing, anti-aliasing, ray tracing, and 3D projection.