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Seminars on Computer Graphics 2 (Summer 2014)

Rules / Info

• On every seminar we will implement selected problems/algorithms related to lessons. We will usually - not necessary start with a prearranged template downloadable from this site.
• As a programming language we will use C#. We will use Visual C# 2010 as development environment. Alternatively you can use MonoDevelop (Linux / Mac OSX) on your own machine.
• Attendance at seminars is optional but recommended.
• Seminars are conducted by
  • Matej Hudak (subseth.mato@gmail.com)
• Schedule of seminars is
  • Wed (17:20) - Room I-H3
• Other collaborators and authors: Juraj Onderik

Homeworks

• You can get max 100% per homework. Submission after deadline is for 0%.
• There is a min 50% of your final evaluation required for admission to final term.
• Additional activity can be awarder by max 10% of your final evaluation.
• Don't cheat - create instead. Any kind of cheating is punished by withholding 30% of your final evaluation for all involved students.
• As a homework, you will program what we could not finish during the exercise. Assignment and template will be downloadable from this site. See exercises.
• Homework must be submitted by email to cg2.2014.hw@gmail.com every week until the next Wednesday 17:20.
• Your submission email must have title in form 'ExNN' where NN is the number of exercise, eg. Ex05.
• It is required to submit zipped source code of your homework (preferably the whole solution). Do not send executable files. Homework without the source code is for 0%.
• Your code should be well formatted and commented. Titles of functions, classes, variables should be representative for their purpose. Homework without appropriate comments is for 0%.
• There are ~12 homeworks during the semester. This number can change due to holidays, tech. problems etc.
• Your Evaluation

Exercises

Exercise00 [19.02.2014] "Introduction"

• Motivation?
  • 1st Octane, 2nd Octane, 3rd Octane
  • The State of Rendering 1, The State of Rendering 2
• Theory / Reading?
  • Computer Graphics in max planck institut 1 - Marcus Magnor
  • Computer Graphics in max planck institut 2 - Marcus Magnor
  • Computer Graphics - David Mount - Lecture 19
  • Computer Graphics in MIT - Durand / Cutler
  • Scratchapixel Lessons
• Practice?
  • Ray Tracer in c++
  • Ray Tracer in c#
• Intro to c#?
  • Visual c# 2010, c# 4.0 in a Nutshell
  • Visual Shortcuts, SharpDevelop Short cuts
  • Exercise "Vectors and Matrices" - CG1

Exercise01 [26.02.2014] "Ray Casting"

• Ray, you are not yet worthy to maintain the pixel color in the camera. I now take from you your origin, your direction and in the name of my father the Class I cast you out!
• Implement a camera class suitable for the ray casting method. As usual you should use a similar functionality as in the sample application. Application should specifically be able to:
  • Render the scene (objects are movable).
  • Move the camera in a 3D space.
  • Change the camera's field of view (larger angle = more space to render), see Blender camera.
• Try to change the color of the intersected object due to distance from the camera
• '[2 bonus %]:
  • Create a camera which will rotate around defined point P (target) along sphere with r = 1. You can use ideas from the Blender camera system and / or two-angle camera in openGL. Camera should use some sort of interactivity (2 angles) and targeted point P should be movable.
• Sample | Template
• Deadline: 12.3 - 17:20