Introduction to Graphics

Lectures

• Lecture slide handout - 4 slides per page (PDF)
• Lecture slide handout - 1 slide per page (PDF)

Ticks

There are two ticks to be completed in this course with the deadlines on:

1. Tick 1 - Introduction to Ray Tracing: 15 November 2022
2. Tick 2 - Real-time rendering with OpenGL: 29 November 2022

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.