Lecture: Visual Computing

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The field of visual computing deals with generating/capturing, representing, rendering, and interacting with synthetic and real-world images and video. This lecture is the basis for interactive Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision as well as for building Virtual and Augmented Reality applications.

Students will create an interactive application of their choice. You can find some of the examples from previous years below.

Detailed module description.

Rasterization Pipeline

Vertex Specification

Coordinate Systems

Texture Mapping

Light-Material Interaction

Multipass Rendering

Example Projects