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