CS 5620 Advanced Interactive Graphics Instructor: Kavita Bala Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:25 – 2:40 109 Upson Hall Cornell University Computer Science Department, Fall 09

Overview   CS 5620 covers advanced graphics topics with a focus on interactive techniques. The philosophical goal of this course is to introduce students to state-of-the-art graphics technology (GPUs, multicore graphics systems like Intel's Larrabee, etc.) and the interactive techniques that they enable in applications like game engines. This course serves as a follow up to any undergraduate introductory graphics course and covers the following topics in detail: the modern graphics pipeline and graphics architectures; rendering including texturing, shadowing, shading, and indirect illumination; modeling including scene representations, and level-of-detail; and basic animation techniques including particle systems. These topics are subject to change. There will be a few homeworks (written and implementations) in the course, though the main focus is the group project where each group will build an an interactive (and hopefully fun!) 3D game illustrating various concepts from the course. An introductory graphics course (for example Cornell's CS 4620) is a pre-requisite for this course.

Announcements 10/8/2009: PA2 is out. The FAQ page is here. 10/23/2009: PA3 is out. The FAQ page is here. 11/21/2009: Hierarchical objects designed by every group for PA1 are available here.

Administration CS 5620 Advanced Interactive Graphics 3 Cr. Times: Tu, Th 1:25-2:40  Location: 109 Upson Hall Schedule Instructor: Kavita Bala Office: 5142 Upson Office Hours: Monday 11:00-12:00 (and by appt) Teaching Assistant: Shuang Zhao Office: 594 Rhodes Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00-2:00 Administrative Assistant: Randy Hess Office: 5147 Upson

Textbooks Real-Time Rendering by Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines, and Naty Hoffman Resources

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