Games101: Computer Graphics-Week 1

1. Why study Computer Graphics?

• Applications: Video Games, Movies, Animations, Design, Visualization, VR&AR, Digital Illustration, Simulation, GUI, Typography
• 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
  • 3D graphics software programming and hardware

2. Course Topics (mainly 4 parts)

• Rasterization(光栅化)

将3D 物体投影到并展示到屏幕上

• Curves and Meshes

How to represent geometry in Computer Graphics.

• Ray Tracing(光线追踪)

Shoot rays from camera though each pixel , Calculate intersection and shading, and rays will continue bounce till they hit light sources.

• Animation / Simulation
  • Key frame Animation
  • Mass-spring System

3. Graphics IDE的推荐：

• 推荐：VS，VSC
• 不推荐：CLion, Eclipse / Sublime, Vi/Vim, Emacs

理由：大型项目，插件齐全节省时间，没必要和效率过不去