Lecture #00
Organisation
Computer Graphics
Winter Term 2019/20
Marc Stamminger
Modules
• This lecture: 3.75 ECTS (3 hours a week)
“CG-VU”
Module
• Plus “Basic Exercises”
5 ECTS
• simple programming or theoretical exercises
“CG-VUP”
7.5 ECTS
Module
• effort about 2-3h / week
• 1.25 ECTS
• Plus “Advanced Exercises”
• advanced programming exercises
• effort about 5-6h / week
• 2.5 ECTS
• 50% of the points of Basic Exercises → pass Basic part
• 50% of the points of Advanced Exercises pass Advanced part
• Grade from written exam, probably in March/April 2020
Computer Graphics 2019/20 - Organisation 2
Material
• Download via StudOn: 5.Tech → 5.3 Inf → Inf9 → Computer Graphics
• Lecture slides
• Additional material
• Exercises
• Forum: ! First place for questions !
• Lecture will be recorded: http://video.cs.fau.de
• Handin of exercises via Exercise Submission Tool (EST)
• Handin of files
• Complete exercises in teams of two
• Feedback, points, and comments from tutors provided via EST
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• Please register for both!
→ We will send organizational messages through these channels.
Computer Graphics 2019/20 - Organisation 3
Times
• Lecture: 3h / week on average
4h / week until Christmas, no lecture afterwards (apart from exam preparation)
• Schedule:
Monday 14-16 Thursday 10-12
14.10. Intro / Images / Colors Rasterization, APIs
21.10. Line Rasterization Polygon Rasterization
28.10. GPU Rendering Transformations
04.11. Viewing and Perspective Visibility
11.11. Lighting (Deferred) Shading
18.11. Texturing Texture Aliasing
25.11. Scene Graphs, 3D Rotations Unity
02.12. VR - HMDs VR – Tracking & Latency
09.12. Raytracing - Basics I Raytracing - Basics II
16.12. Raytracing - Acceleration Raytracing - AA, Ray Differentials, …
Computer Graphics 2019/20 - Organisation 4
Time Slots To attend the tutorials,
• Lecture you need access for the Huber-CIP
• Mondays, 14:15 – 15:45 H4 → CIP-Pool admins!
• Thursdays 10:15 – 11:45 H4
• Exercises:
• Fridays 14-16, Mondays 9-12: Huber-CIP (starting this Friday – October 18)
• Tutors are available to answer your questions, help with the programming exercises
(both Basic and Advanced part)
Jana Falko Lucas Daniel
Martschinke Matern Thies Zint
• Questions:
• organizational jana.martschinke@fau.de
• content-related StudOn-Forum
Computer Graphics 2019/20 - Organisation 5
Exercises
• One exercise sheet per week
• Both Basic and Advanced Exercises
• Published Mondays, 1pm
• Ten days to work on assignment
• Deadline Thursday 1pm
• 10 Sheets, each sheet has
• 10 points Basic
• 10 points Advanced
• For the 7.5 ECTS you have to do both, Basic and Advanced !
• It is recommended (but not mandatory) to do the C/C++ Tutorium provided
on StudOn in order to prepare for the assignments.
Computer Graphics 2019/20 - Organisation 6
First Exercise
• First sheet is available
→ due next week
Basic exercise
Advanced exercise
Computer Graphics 2019/20 - Organisation 7
Further Questions ?
Computer Graphics 2019/20 - Organisation 8