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Lectures & Tutorials |
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25 Jul |
Lecture 1:
Introduction
Lecture 2:
Perspective & Polygonal Geometry
(basis of Blender & Unity)
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No lab/tute in first week
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Installation of Unity
Installation of Blender
Installation of Visual Studio
Microsoft DramSpark program
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| 2 |
1 Aug |
Lecture 3:
The rendering pipeline I; the CG shader language & the GPU
Lecture 4:
2D transformations (Matrix geometry and homogeneous coordinates)
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Download lab material at http://tinyurl.com/graphics2016
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| 3 |
8 Aug |
Lecture 5:
3D transformations (Quaternion geometry)
Lecture 6:
Virtual Environments and Game AI - Invited Lecture (Michael Papasimeon)
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| 4 |
15 Aug |
Lecture 7: Lighting - Illumination models
Lecture 8: Lighting - Surface rendering and shading
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Project 1 released
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| 5 |
22 Aug |
Lecture 9: Rasterization and barycentric coordinates - (CG shader lanaguge)
Lecture 10: Colour, Texture & Bump mapping: Colour slides & Texture and other Mappings (Angel, Chapter 7).
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Wikipedi'ata: Diamond-square algorithm
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| 6 |
29 Aug |
Lecture 11: Interpolation & parametric equations (piecewise, linear, polynomial & splines) & A coder's guide to spline-based procedural geometry, Unite 2015, Boston (Youtube).
Lecture 12: Ray tracing & shadow volumes & Shadow Volumes toolkit (Unity)
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Wikipedi'ata: Bicubic Interpolation
Slides from Interactive Computer Graphics Course (Imperial College): Spline curves lecture & Spline surfaces lecture
Practical Techniques for Ray Tracing (tutorial)
Slides from Interactive Computer Graphics Course (Imperial College): Ray Tracing (I) & Ray Tracing (II)
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| 7 |
5 Sep |
Lecture 13: Input (Interaction, Picking in 3D & Accelerometers)
Lecture 14: Project 2 - examples & group formation
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COMP30019 Apps from previous years
Animation slides (Stanford University) - see slides on Cel Shading
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Project 2 released
Project 1 due
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| 8 |
12 Sep |
Lecture 15: Radiosity & Global illumination
Lecture 16: Mid Semester Test (in the normal lecture location)
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Radiosity (Angel text, Section 11.5)
Radiosity (Foley text, Section 11.5)
Radiosity (Principles) (Lectures slides from IMP)
Radiosity (Computational Issues) (Lecture slides frim IMP)
What is examinable in the Mid Semester Test
An Example Mid-Semester test is available.
, together with Solutions for example Mid-Semester test
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Mid Semester Test Results
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| 9 |
19 Sep |
Lecture 17: Particle systems & Geometry shaders (in Unity)
Lecture 18: Movement & kinematics (in Unity)
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Setting up Unity for Windows Universal App Deployment - Instructions
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26 Sep |
Non-teaching period
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No tute
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| 10 |
3 Oct |
Lecture 19: Dedicated to working on project 2
Lecture 20: Dedicated to working on project 2
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Project 1 Marks (Excel format)
Project 1 Marks (CSV format)
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| 11 |
10 Oct |
Lecture 21: Lecture 21: Inverse Kinematics
Lecture 22: Augmented Reality (Hololens)
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Kinematics slides - from slide 13 onwards (Imperial College)
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| 12 |
17 Oct |
Project demos
Project demos
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What is examinable in the Exam?
Sample exam questions (collated from previous years exams)
Sample exam questions solutions (suggested solutions)
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Initial electronic submission (Monday 8am)
Final electronic submission (Friday 4pm)
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