CS 788: High Performance Image Synthesis 1: Administration and Review

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CS 788 High Performance Image Synthesis1
Administration and Review

• Michael D. McCool
• School of Computer Science
• University of Waterloo

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Outline

• Administration
• Resources and references
• Machines and accounts
• Evaluation criteria
• List of topics
• Background review
• Relevant CS488 material

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Administration

• Lectures DC3314
• Time 130-250 (but flexible)
• Instructor email
• mmccool_at_uwaterloo.ca
• Instructor website
• http//www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/mmccool
• Lab MC6055
• Need door code

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Resources and References

• OpenGL http//www.opengl.org
• Sh http//libsh.sourceforge.net
• Cg http//www.nvidia.com
• Books http//www.realtimerendering.com
• Tomas Akenine-Moeller and Eric Haines, Real-Time
  Rendering, Second Edition, AK Peters, 2002
• OpenGL 1.4 Programming Guide, OpenGL ARB, Fourth
  Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003
• Lectures
• http//www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/mmccool/cs788

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Machines and Accounts

• New machines in MC6055 to support course
• Debian Linux (sarge) with NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600s
• Fill out signup sheet, accounts should be
  available next week
• If want to work at home, GPU at least one of
• NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200
• ATI Radeon 9600

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Evaluation Criteria

• Project proposal 10
• 2 pages, in SIGGRAPH conference format
• Project implementation 30
• Any real-time graphics platform
• Term paper 30
• 6-8 pages, in SIGGRAPH conference format
• Presentation 30
• At end of term, in mini-conference, 15 minutes
• Audit one of implementation, paper, or
  presentation

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Topics

• Graphics hardware architecture and APIs
• GPUs and performance tuning
• GPU programming (Cg and Sh)
• Graphics and numerical algorithms
• Image processing
• Tone mapping, gamma correction, antialiasing
• Lighting and shading
• Local and global, BRDF approximation
• Texturing and applications
• Modelling and animation
• Skinning
• Acceleration algorithms
• LOD, occlusion culling

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Review

• Vector spaces
• Affine geometry
• Euclidean geometry
• Projective geometry
• Transformations
• Implicit and parametric forms
• Clipping

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Vector Spaces
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Affine Geometry
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Affine Geometry
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Affine Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
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Projective Geometry
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Transformations
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Transformations
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Transformations
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Transformations
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Transformations
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Transforming Normals
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Parametric and Implicit Forms

• Parametric form of line segments, rays
• Implicit form of plane

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Clipping

• Trivial reject, trivial accept

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Clipping

• When crosses, solve for t