Third Year and MSc Interactive Computer Graphics Course
MSc, BEng3, MEng3, ISE3, JMC3, EE4

The couse material is being revised for the current session. Last year's course material may be found here.

Course Outline

Lectures

• Lecture 1 (Handout:Slide Show) 3D Graphics: Projection and Transformation (dfg)
• Lecture 2 (Handout:Slide Show) Space and Object Transformations (dfg)
• Lecture 3 (Handout) Clipping and 3D Geometry (dr)
• Lecture 4 (Handout:Slide Show) Colour (dfg)
• Lecture 5 (Handout) Illumination and Shading 1 (dr)
• Lecture 6 (Handout) Illumination and Shading 2 (dr)
• Lecture 7 (Handout) Texture Mapping (dr)
• Lecture 8 (Handout) Graphics Pipeline (dr)
• Lecture 9 (Handout: Slide Show) Spline Curves (dfg)
• Lecture 10 (Handout:Slide Show) Spline Surfaces (dfg)
• Lecture 11 (Handout:Slide Show) Ray Tracing 1 (dr)
• Lecture 12 (Handout:Slide Show)  Ray Tracing 2 (dr)
• Lecture 13 (Handout: Slide Show) Radiosity 1 (dfg)
• Lecture 14 (Handout: Slide Show) Radiosity 2 (dfg)
• Lecture 15 (Handout:Slide Show)  Warping and Morphing 1 (dr)
• Lecture 16 (Handout:Slide Show)  Warping and Morphing 2 (dr)
• Lecture 17 (Handout:Slide Show)  Fire (dfg)
• Lecture 18 (Handout:Slide Show)  Kinematics and Animation (dfg)
• Errata
  

Tutorials

• Tutorial 1 (QuestionSheet: Solution ) Revision of 3D geometry
• Tutorial 2 (QuestionSheet: Solution ) Projections and transformations
• Tutorial 3 (QuestionSheet: Solution ) Colour
• Tutorial 4 (Question Sheet: Solution ) Shading
• Tutorial 5 (Question Sheet: Solution ) Texture
• Tutorial 6 (Question Sheet: Solution ) Curves and Surfaces
• Tutorial 7 (QuestionSheet: Solution ) Ray Tracing
• Tutorial 8 (QuestionSheet: Solution ) Radiosity
• Tutorial 9 (QuestionSheet: Solution ) Revision
• Extra Tutorial (QuestionSheet: Solution) Warping and Morphing
  

Coursework

The code provided with the coursework is for your information. You may not need it all in your solutions.

Coureswork part 1:Files for coursework 1
Coureswork part 2:Files for coursework 2

Notes on OpenGL
OpenGL Examples in Visual Studio
Swiftless OpenGL tutorial (with lots of examples)

Other Supporting Material

Revision notes on vector algebra

Further Material on warping and morphing

A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces.
Volker Blanz and Thomas Vetter, SIGGRAPH'99 Conference Proceedings

Warping and Morphing of Graphical Objects. Jonas Gomes, Lucia Darsa,
Bruno Costa, Luiz Velho, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Past Exam Papers   2003(Q3 is not relevant), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008