Course material for an undergraduate level course in computer graphics
Course designed by Prof. Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin and Karan Singh from University of Toronto, with assistance from Yotam Gingold at GMU.
In general, the materials in this course assume that students should have already taken Linear Algebra and Calculus.
Students should have already taken Introduction to Computer Science and should be proficient in computer programming (in any language) and should feel comfortable programming in C++.
Some coding assignments make use of Eigen, an open-source linear algebra library; and libigl, an open-source geometry processing library. Each assigment is built using CMake.
The course is structured to run with fast paced weekly assignments in the following order:
- Introduction & Raster Images
- Ray Casting
- Ray Tracing
- Meshes
- Boundary Volume Hierarchy
- Shader Pipeline
- Kinematics
There is a slight dependence to these assignments:
- Ray Casting before Ray Tracing
Each topic has its own git repository. Inside each, there is a README.md file
contains background information necessary for understanding the topic's coding
assignment.
The
Introduction
README.md contains detailed information about compilation, file layout and
assignment protocols.
These assignments were prepared to closely follow:
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition, Steve Marschner, Pete Shirley, et al. 2015.
The background materials link heavily to Wikipedia articles. Sometimes the wikipedia articles relating to computer graphics are less informative than they could be. Edit them!
There are instructor repositories for all of the assignments above. If you're an instructor for a geometry processing course, send an email to jacobson@cs.toronto.edu for an invitation.