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

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) Ray Tracing 1 (dr)
• Lecture 12 (Handout)  Ray Tracing 2 (dr)
• Lecture 13 (Handout: Slide Show) Radiosity 1 (dfg)
• Lecture 14 (Handout: Slide Show) Radiosity 2 (dfg)
• Lecture 15 (Handout)  Warping and Morphing 1 (dr)
• Lecture 16 (Handout)  Warping and Morphing 2 (dr)
• Lecture 17 (Handout:Slide Show)  Fire (dfg)
• Lecture 18 (Handout:Slide Show)  Kinematics and Animation (dfg)

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 ) Warping and Morphing
• Extra Tutorial (QuestionSheet: Solution) Revision
  

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

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

Other Supporting Material

Revision notes on vector algebra

Andy Salter's Interactive Spline Tutorial

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, 2009