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
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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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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, …
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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
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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.
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First Exercise
• First sheet is available
        → due next week
              Basic exercise
                                           Advanced exercise
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Further Questions ?
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