COMP SCI 7090 - Computer Graphics

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2016

The course information on this page is being finalised for 2016. Please check again before classes commence.

Selected topics from: Light and the human visual system. Colour. Images, quantisation and sampling. Image manipulations. Raster graphics. Coordinate systems and transformations. The viewing frustum. The graphics pipeline and toolkits. Clipping and culling. Visibility. Lighting and shadows. Transparency and blending. Texture mapping. Local shading models. Environment mapping techniques. Multi-pass rendering. Shaders. Animation and particles. Level of detail, scene graphs and implementation efficiency.

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Course Details

Course Code	COMP SCI 7090
Course	Computer Graphics
Coordinating Unit	Computer Science
Term	Semester 1
Level	Postgraduate Coursework
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 2.5 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	Y
Assumed Knowledge	MATHS 1012 & COMP SCI 7088
Assessment	written exam, assignments

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Dr Anthony Dick

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Learning Outcomes

Course Learning Outcomes

Understand the structure of modern computer graphics systems.
Understand the basic princinples of implementing copmputer graphics primitives.
Be able to conbstruct inbteractive computer graphics programs using OpenGL

University Graduate Attributes

No information currently available.
Learning Resources

Required Resources

None. See below for recommended reference books. Lecture notes, background material, practicals and tutorial sheets will be available from the course website.

Recommended Resources

The following books are useful references:

* OpenGL Programming Guide (Red Book). OpenGL Architecture Review Board

* OpenGL Reference Manual (Blue Book). OpenGL Architecture Review Board

* Interactive Computer Graphics: A top-down approach using OpenGL, 5th/6th ed. Edward Angel

* Real Time Rendering, 2nd ed. Tomas Akenine-Moller and Eric Haines

* Computer Graphics using OpenGL, 2nd ed. Francis Hill

All machines in the Computer Graphics Lab and the newer machines in the level 2 lab have the required software libraries to compile and practicals and example code from lectures.

Online Learning

Links to useful background material on the web are posted on the course website.

The computer science forums can be used for asking questions or discussing the course. Announcements and news will also be posted on the forums:

http://forums.cs.adelaide.edu.au/

To use the forums, you need to sign up for the course by following this link
Learning & Teaching Activities

Learning & Teaching Modes

Concepts are introduced during lectures, which are held twice per week. These concepts are reinforced by smaller tutorial sessions, held every two weeks. Tutorials are also designed to give students some hands on experience with quite small and self contained practical exercises. Practical assignments are fewer but more significant, and are intended to develop and test the students’ understanding and practical ability to use the concepts raised in lectures.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

Students are expected to spend an average of 10 hours per week on activities related to Computer Graphics. Of these, 2 are spent in lectures and 0.5 in tutorials. The remainder of the time is to be spent on practical assignments, tutorial preparation and background reading and revision. This includes compiling, running and testing the example code provided in lectures.

Learning Activities Summary

A full schedule is maintained on the course website.

The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

Written exam: 60%

Formative, assesses learning objectives 1, 2, 3, 4

Practicals: 40%

Summative, assesses learning objectives 1, 2, 3, 4.

Assessment Related Requirements

Students must obtain at least 40% in each of the assessment components (exam and practicals), and 50% overall, to pass the course.

Assessment Detail

Written exam: this will be a 2 hour closed book exam. Questions will test the students’ understanding of concepts presented throughout the course, and their ability to put them to use to solve problems.

Practicals: there will be four practical assignments of increasing scope. Practicals will be written in C/C++ and use the OpenGL API, and relate to concepts and API features previously introduced in lectures and tutorials.

Submission

Practical work is to be stored in the students’ SVN repository and submitted using the School of Computer Science web based automark system. More details will be provided in lectures and in each practical sheet.

Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.

Student Feedback

The University places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the University to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.
Student Support
Policies & Guidelines
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