Lectures in course CS-341: Computer graphics

ICG Exercise: Raytracing Setup

Covers the practical setup for the ICG Exercise on Raytracing, focusing on configuring the development environment.

Raytracing Intro

Introduces raytracing for generating realistic digital images of 3D scenes.

Raytracing: Sphere+Plane Intersection

Covers vector spaces, inner product, primary rays, and ray-object intersections in the context of raytracing.

Raytracing Intersection Triangle

Explores ray-triangle intersection, barycentric coordinates, points vs. vectors, and other primitives.

Barycentric Coordinates: Quiz Session

Covers the concept of barycentric coordinates and includes quizzes for practice.

Planes and Cylinders: Ray Intersections and Implementations

Covers the implementation of ray intersections with planes, cylinders, and spheres.

Lighting Phong: Basics and Models

Introduces the basics of lighting in computer graphics, including surface reflectance, ray tracing, and the Phong lighting model.

Lighting: Shadows and Recursion

Explores multiple light sources, shadows, recursive ray tracing, and lighting computations in ray tracing.

Pinhole Camera and Barycentric Coordinates

Covers pinhole cameras, degrees of freedom, Phong lighting, and barycentric coordinates with sample exam questions.

Lighting: Surface Reflectance and Phong Model

Explores practical lighting aspects in computer graphics, covering surface reflectance, Phong model, multiple light sources, shadows, and reflections.

Triangle Meshes: Ray Tracing and Spatial Data Structures

Delves into Phong Lighting, deepfake technology, triangle meshes, and spatial data structures for ray tracing.

Meshes: Vertex Normals and Ray Intersections

Covers the computation of vertex normals and triangle normals in the context of mesh rendering.

Photorealistic Rendering

Explores the challenges in achieving photorealistic rendering through ray tracing algorithms and discusses their limitations.

Rasterization Pipeline

Covers the rasterization pipeline, transforming 3D geometry into 2D images efficiently.

2D Transformations: Linear Maps & Matrices

Covers 2D transformations, linear maps, matrices, affine transformations, and orthogonal transformations.

3D Transformations: Basics and Euler Angles

Covers 3D transformations, Euler angles, and rotation in computer graphics.

Projections: Orthographic and Perspective

Explores the transformation pipeline from 3D to 2D, covering orthographic and perspective projections.

Rasterization: Transformations

Explains the process of projecting 3D objects onto a 2D image plane using transformations and forward rendering.

Rasterization - Lighting

Covers normal vectors, Phong lighting model, and affine transformations.

Rasterization Algorithms: Bresenham Algorithm

Explains the Bresenham algorithm for line rasterization and the importance of integer arithmetic in computer graphics.