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   Syllabus

• Introduction
  • Basics, applications and scope, Graphics standards, Interaction (sample- and event-driven) and Graphics user Interface (GUI) features.


• Display Systems
  • Raster refresh displays, CRT basics, video basics, Flat panel displays.


• Transformations
  • Affine (2-D and 3-D): Rotation, Translation, Scale, Reflection and Shear; Viewing: The Camera Transformations - perspective, orthographic, isometric and stereographic views, Viewing pipeline; Camera Models and multi-view generation.


• Scan conversion and Clipping
  • Algorithms for drawing Lines, Circles, Ellipse, Polyline. Polygon. Area filling, fill-style; Clipping algorithms: line and polygon, anti-aliasing.


• Solid Modeling
  • Wire-frame, Octrees, Sweep, Boundary representations. Regularized Boolean set operations, Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG); Hierarchical Scene and Object graphs, Scene Description.


• OpenGL primitives
  • Functions, pipeline, sample programs for drawing 2-D, 3-D objects; event handling and view manipulation.


• Hidden Surface Removal
  • Back face detection, Z-buffer method, Painter's algorithm, scan-line algorithm, BSP-trees, Area sub-division method, Ray tracing.


• Shading & Illumination
  • Phong's shading model, Gouraud shading, Shadows and background, Color models, Photo-realistic rendering.


• Curves and Surfaces
  • Conics, parametric and non-parametric forms; Bezier (Bernstein Polynomials) Curves, Cubic-Splines, Hermite Curves, B-Splines; Quadratic surfaces, Bezier surfaces and NURBS.


• Miscellaneous and Advance topics
  • Anti-aliasing methods; Introduction to texture mapping - bump mapping, Displacement mapping, Environmental mapping, relief texture, Procedural noise, image maps, fractals; Animation: types of animation; Soft object modeling; Visual realism: Novel view synthesis, Image based rendering, depth of field, Image Morphing; Video based rendering, image stitching/mosaic; GUI design; Image File formats, etc.