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Introduction to Computer Graphics

p text-align=justify color=red%CORONA Information:

p text-align=justify color=red%All face-to-face teaching is still suspended. For the time being we will use remote teaching via BBcollab. In addition, the slides are available on the slides page.

This is the webpage for the class »Introduction to Computer Graphics«. This page will function as the main communication means of materials and assignments for the class. The class will be taught in English. For questions and comments please contact the instructor.

This class introduces you to the main concepts behind two-dimensional and tree-dimensional computer graphics such as scan-conversion, transformations, the rendering pipeline with its stages, local illumination and shading, and color representation/color models.

Administrative information:

• room: look up each week on the Polytech room system

or on http://www.edt.universite-paris-saclay.fr/ (works only with Linux) or on http://hebergement.u-psud.fr/edt/# (works only with http)

• evaluation type: multiple choice exam

* timetable and locations of the lecture and the tutorials * timetable and locations of the lecture and the tutorials * Nestor page of the class (will not be used for announcements and course description, but will be used for handing in assignments through the digital dropbox in Nestor) * Ocasys page for the class

Instructor:

• Dr. Tobias Isenberg

* Dr. Tobias Isenberg (lectures) * Tijmen Klein (teaching assistant) * Ruurd Moelker (teaching assistant)

Course materials:

• material on these pages
• book »Fundamentals of Computer Graphics«
  • Steve Marschner and Peter Shirley, »Fundamentals of Computer Graphics,« 4^th edition, 2015, A K Peters/CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1-48222-939-4, see also the author's website about the book
  • Peter Shirley and Steve Marschner, »Fundamentals of Computer Graphics,« 3^rd edition, 2009, A K Peters, Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-56881-469-8

2^nd edition of the same book, see the author's website about the 2^nd edition of the book book Donald Hearn and M. Pauline Baker, "Computer Graphics with OpenGL", 3^rd edition, 2004, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-120238-3