• Instructor: Rynson Lau
• Teaching Assistants: Jianbo Jiao, Xufang PANG, and Cherry (Nanxuan) ZHAO
• Semester: B
• Hours: 26-hour lectures (2 hours/week) and 13-hour tutorials (1 hour/week)

Objectives

• Identify the main characteristics of basic computer graphics techniques,
• Design and develop simple graphics algorithms,
• Evaluate and critique different types of graphics systems, and
• Apply computer graphics techniques to real-world applications.

Syllabus

• Basic computer graphics techniques (lecture - 6 hours / tutorial: 3 hours)

Graphical input/output devices, 2D primitive drawing, 2D transformation, 3D transformation and projection, clipping, and object modeling.

• Image Generation Techniques (lecture - 12 hours / tutorial: 6 hours)

Some of the important image generation techniques including scan-conversion, ray-tracing and radiosity. Related issues such as shading, anti-aliasing and texture mapping are also discussed.

• Applications of Computer Graphics (lecture: 6 hours / tutorial: 3 hours)

Introduction to image processing techniques, window systems, computer animation, virtual reality technologies, and multimedia technologies.

Assessment

• Coursework: 40% (1 project assignment and 1 quiz)
• Examination: 60% (2 hours)

Teaching Schedule (Tentative)

• Week 1: Graphics Systems
  Tutorial Class: Course Overview

• Week 2: Drawing and Transformation
  Tutorial Class: Exercise 1

• Week 3: Course Project Information, Drawing and Transformation, Object Modeling
  Tutorial Class: Exercise 2

• Week 4: Projection and Clipping
  Tutorial Class: Tutorial 1 on Course Project

• Week 5: Hidden Surface Removal and Shading
  Tutorial Class: Tutorial 2 on Course Project

• Week 6: The Rendering Pipeline
  Tutorial Class: Exercise 3

• Week 7: Quiz

• Week 8: Ray-Tracing and Radiosity
  Tutorial Class: Exercise 4

• Week 9: Ray-Tracing and Radiosity
  Tutorial Class: Tutorial on GPU programming

• Week 10: Aliasing and Antialiasing
  Tutorial Class: Setting up OpenGL and Course Project Q&A

• Week 11: Aliasing and Antialiasing, GPU Architecture, Computer Animation
  Tutorial Class: Exercise 5
  Course Project Submission Deadline: 2 April, 2017 (Final)

• Week 12: Window Systems, Real-time Rendering
  Tutorial Class: Exercise 6

• Week 13: Course Revision
  

Reference Books

• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Third Edition
  J. Hughes, A. van Dam, M. McGuire, D. Sklar, J. Foley, S. Feiner, and K. Akeley, Addison Wesley, 2014.

• Introduction to Computer Graphics
  J. Foley, A. van Dam, S. Feiner, J. Hughes and R. Phillips, Addison Wesley, 1994.

• Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition
  D. Hearn, M. Baker, and W. Carithers, Pearson, 2014.

Last updated on 24 March, 2017.