Class Graphic Computing

Graphics are an integral part of modern games, having a crucial role in their technical and artistic execution. As such, this curricular unit exists to give students the tools necessary to understand the challenges that are ahead of them in this area, as well as allow them to take the best technical decisions. It will also help them with the implementation of an artistic vision and understand the limitation of the target hardware, as well as provide them some idea on future technologies that might be very important in a few years.

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Introduction Light Physics Transformations Clipping and culling Graphic APIs Hardware concepts Rendering Rasterization Lines and triangles Depth buffer Blending Vertex shaders Gouraud shading  Lambertian lighting model Fog and light attenuation Backface culling Pixel shaders Texturing Phong lighting model Normal mapping Shadows Other shaders Geometry shaders Compute shaders  Physically Based Rendering BRDFs Modern rendering pipeline Rendering architecture Forward and deferred rendering Optimization Lightmaps Light probes Environment maps Animation Particle systems Skeletal animation Mesh deformation Advanced Topics Procedural Graphics Image processing Raytracing and beyond Signed Distance Fields Augmented and Virtual Reality

* Exposition presenting the concepts * Demonstration of those concepts in practice, with real life examples if possible * Practical through the execution of small programming tasks related to the current lecture   The semestral evaluation is done through a final project at the end of the semestre. The exam evaluation is done in the same way.

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