What is Computer Graphics

• Video games
• Movies
• Animations
• Design
• Visualization
• Virtual Reality
• Digital Illustration
• Simulation
• Graphical User Interfaces
• Typography

Why study Computer Graphics

• Fundamental Intellectual Challenges
  • Creates and interacts with realistic virtual world
  • Requires understanding of all aspects of physical world
  • New computing methods, displays, technologies
• Technical Challenges
  • Math of (perspective) projections, curves, surfaces
  • Physics of lighting and shading
  • Representing / operating shapes in 3D
  • Animation / simulation
• Forget about the previous reasons
  • Computer Graphics is AWESOME

Course Topics (mainly 4 parts)

• Rasterization
• Curves and Meshes
• Ray Tracing
• Animation / Simulation