Instructor: 李同益

tonylee@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Tel:62531

http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/Course.html

Today’s Agenda

• Welcome
• What’s computer graphics?
• Creation, storage, manipulation and display of 2D/3D models and images of objects
• What’s this course about?
• Reference books and Grading

Three main themes of computer graphics

• Modeling
• Rendering
• Animation

3D Modeling (triangles, quads etc)

Level of Details for Modeling

i.e. speedup rendering

Rendering

2D & 3D Animation

Visualization

Medical Visualization

CG v.s. Image Processing

CGVSL

The Nature of this Course�

• It requires C or C++ programming for some assignments, i.e., opengl etc.
• Lecture (2hr) and seminars intermixed (1hr)
• Instructor, TA and students intermixed
• Paper Presentation per week
• A Final Project (select by yourself)
• No exam !!! (usually no but not sure ….)

電腦繪圖研究群/視覺系統實驗室 (資訊系館新大樓7F 65701室)

Good Reference books

Major text book

Good Reference books

www.opengl.org

https://learnopengl.com/

Since you came here you probably want to learn the inner workings of computer graphics and do all the stuff the cool kids do by yourself. Doing things by yourself is extremely fun and resourceful and gives you a great understanding of graphics programming. However, there are a few items that need to be taken into consideration before starting your journey.

Links and Resource

• www.opengl.org
• graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/Resurces.htm
• www.povray.org
• http://www.bmrt.org/arman/materials.html
• http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/cg.html
• ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
• Eurographics Proceedings (Journal of Computer Graphics Forum, CGF)
• ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
• Visual Computers

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Grading

• No exam (usually no but not sure)
• Some Homework (50%)
• Report and Presentation (15%)
• Final Project (35%)
• Due on late Jan. 2020

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Course Schedule

• Overview
• A standard 3D Graphics Pipeline
• Paper/Project Presentation
• OpenGL Programming (TA)
• CG Research (optionnly)
• Invited Talk (optionally)

Computer Graphics is about Movies!

Computer Graphics is about Movies!

Visual and Special Effects Film Milestones�

Cartoon Movie

Games are OK here

Ex: using OpenGL to

write a simple game

2D & 3D Games

Medical Imaging

Volume Rendering/Ray Casting

Computer Aided Design

Scientific Visualization

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

Non-photorealistic Rendering (NPR)

1. http://www.red3d.com/cwr/npr/

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• http://www.cs.utah.edu/npr/

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See You Next Time !!