Credits: 7.5

Type: professional

Objectives:

• To provide basic tools for building and using software graphics.
• To provide various methods for the representation of flat and spatial graphics objects. To explain how scenes are lit, using techniques to illuminate solid objects and to create pseudo-realistic visualisations with ray tracing.

Knowledge:

• Introduction to graphics systems and interactive graphics programming.
• Graphics elements. Fundamental graphics algorithms.
• Two-dimensional representation of 3-D graphics objects. Projections. Determining visible surfaces.
• Illuminating solid objects (rendering). Phong shading, Gouraud shading etc.
• Visualising real scenes using ray tracing. Modeling optical phenomena.
• Colour codification models.
• Representation of curves: Bézier curves and rational, polynomial spline curves.
• Representation of surfaces: Bézier surfaces and rational, polynomial spline surfaces.

Subject-specific competences:

• To show knowledge of graphics libraries and packages currently in existence.
• To use graphics packages to create different applications.
• To represent curve and surfaces.
• To represent and illuminate 3-D scenes, using various techniques to treat visible surface, shadows and shading, reflection, transparency and colour.