Advanced Computer Graphics - Interactive curriculae of TU Ilmenau

Details zum Abschluss:

• one or multiple written tests consisting of multiple-choice and free-form questions evaluating the professional competence in the course's topics
• one or multiple assignments to be solved individually at home and turned-in via Moodle at a defined due date announced with the task
• final results may be scaled or individual questions may be excluded depending on best performing percentile of students
• exam result determined as average across individual tests and assignments
• all activities preferably conducted digitally via Moodle and on the student's device
• students must register via Thoska for this exam, typically within the 3rd and 4th week of the semester

Prof. Dr. Mäder, Patrick

Dieses Modul enthält mindestens eine alternative semesterbegleitende Abschlussleistung. Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese in der Regel schon zu Beginn des Semesters, in dem diese angeboten wird, angemeldet werden muss.
Über die Details und Zeiträume dazu werden Sie vom Lehrenden und/oder dem Prüfungsamt informiert. Fragen Sie gegebenenfalls unbedingt beim Lehrenden nach.

This module contains at least one alternative exam part. Please note that this must usually be registered at the beginning of the semester in which it is offered.
The lecturer and/or the examination office will inform you about the details and time periods. If necessary, be sure to ask the lecturer.

Recommended are fundamentals in the fields of vector analysis (2D and 3D) and JavaScript, but at course begin there will be also the possibility to close gaps in those fields.

Students of this class have the motivation and ability to apply several patterns of geometrical algorithms and data structures as well as mathematical simulation models in other fields than computer graphics. They got experiences in modeling geometry, color, light propagation and textures. They learned that the choice of an appropriate coordinate system is important for the quality of a model/a solution. The students have knowledge in the basics of real time rendering. They also have experiences in the implementation of rendering software for simple 3d models as well as approaches for rendering massive 3D data and/or massive amounts of light sources. They are able to implement global illumination approaches using modern graphics hardware. Students are experienced in shader development with focus on WebGL and understood the main parts of modern rendering pipelines. They are able to differentiate use cases and to select adequate rendering strategies like deferred shading.

• Vector geometry basics (Cartesian and homogeneous coordinates in 2D and 3D) for transformations and projections, incl. application in modeling of geometric objects and scenes as well as for different kinds light propagation simulation
• Generation of simple 2D-Graphics in HTML-Canvas elements
• Vertex and fragment shader programming in WebGL, incl. performance tests on different harware
• Color spaces, direct shading approaches, approaches for occlusion and transparency handling, texture mapping
• Efficient data structures for global real time illumination of massive 3D data
• Global illumination approaches (e.g. Radiosity, Raytracing and Photon Tracing)
• Deferred Shading

• Lecture and seminar slides, exercise sheets
• Program skeletons (to be extended in exercises / homework)
• Opencast lecture recordings
• Assigments and seminar tasks shared via Moodle
• All material will be shared via Moodle (link below).
  

Technical Requirements

• personal computer (or at least a tablet device) required for all seminars and assignments as well as the exams

• Computer graphics : principles and practice / John F. Hughes et al., 3rd ed., 2014, https://opac.lbs-ilmenau.gbv.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=739291289
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API
• https://www.khronos.org/files/webgl/webgl-reference-card-1_0.pdf
• https://www.pbr-book.org  (free online book for further reading)