Syllabus 2010/2011 EDAN35

Syllabus academic year 2010/2011
(Created 2010-07-25.)

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS

EDAN35

Credits: 7,5. Grading scale: TH. Cycle: A (Second Cycle). Main field: Technology. Language of instruction: The course will be given in English. EDAN35 overlaps following cours/es: EDA075. Optional for: C4, C4da, D4, D4bg, E4, E4bg, F4, F4bg, Pi4. Course coordinator: Michael Doggett, mike@cs.lth.se, Dept of Computer Science. Prerequisites: EDAA01 Programming - Second Course or EDA027 Algorithms and Data Structures. Recommended prerequisits: EDA221 Computer Graphics. Assessment: Written examination and completed course assignments. To qualify for the written examination students must have completed the assignments. The final grade of the course is based on the result of the written examination. Home page: http://cs.lth.se/utbildning.

Aim
The purpose of the course is to that the students shall comprehend the foundations about three-dimensional computer graphics using hardware accelerators. Furthermore, the student shall understand how graphics algorithms for hardware work, and the student shall be able to apply this in practice.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

be able to analyze graphics architectures, and also be able to set up hypotheses about what a new algorithm can give in terms of improvements.
be able to describe graphics architectures.
have an insight into the current state of the art APIs for graphic

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

be able to implement three-dimensional applications on hardware accelerators using existing APIs.
be able to evaluate and be able to value graphics architectures, i.e., study theoretical issues.
be able to orally describe the assignments.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

be able to find information about algorithms, and critically value these, and thereafter implement, and test whether a good result can be obtained.

Contents
Graphics architectures, shader programming, graphics APIs, edge functions, perspectively correct interpolation, texturing, caching, filtering, fixed-point math, texture compression, performance analysis, antialiasing algorithms and culling algorithms.

Literature
Published papers from the leading researchers in the field. In addition about 100 pages "Graphics Hardware Algorithms" by Tomas Akenine-Möller and Michael Doggett, and the lecture notes.