COSC422-21S2 (C) Semester Two 2021

Advanced Computer Graphics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 July 2021
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2021
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 1 August 2021
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 1 October 2021

Description

This course provides an in-depth knowledge of advanced algorithms and techniques used in several areas of computer graphics. The course covers a wide range of topics that have found applications in real-time rendering, animation, and game engine development.

2021 Covid-19 Update: Please refer to the course page on AKO | Learn for all information about your course, including lectures, labs, tutorials and assessments.

A list of topics covered in the course is given below:

• OpenGL-4 Shader Programming
Terrain programming
Sprites and particle systems
Non-photorealistic rendering
Image based rendering

• Mesh Processing
Half-edge data structure
Mesh simplification algorithms
Mesh subdivision algorithms

• Character Animation
Quaternions
Motion capture data
Scene graphs
Skeletal animation
Inverse kinematics

Learning Outcomes

  • After successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • Understand, implement and analyze real-time rendering algorithms
  • Explain the computational steps in the OpenGL-4 pipeline
  • Develop shader programs for advanced rendering applications
  • Apply advanced illumination models to three dimensional scenes
  • Design and implement algorithms for three dimensional mesh processing
  • Analyse and interpret motion capture data
  • Explain the meaning and usefulness of quaternion transformations
  • Explain the structure of a scene graph
  • Design and implement skeletal animation techniques for character animation

Prerequisites

1) COSC363 2) Subject to Approval of the Head of Department

Course Coordinator

Ramakrishnan Mukundan

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Final Exam 40%
Assignment 1 13 Aug 2021 20%
Assignment 2 24 Sep 2021 20%
Assignment 3 20 Oct 2021 20%


2021 Covid-19 Update: Please refer to the course page on AKO | Learn for all information about your course, including lectures, labs, tutorials and assessments.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,033.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering .

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