CS 184: COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Lecture #29 -- Mo: 5/10, 1999.
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Preparation:
Read: Ch. 15.10 - 15.10.2, "Ray-casting, Ray-tracing".
Comparison of Rendering Methods
Comparison of rendering pipelines with classical rendering pipeline.
Classical Polygon Renderer
Could do a whole course on hidden surface elimination -- object-space /
image space.
Now Z-buffer takes care of it.
Ray-casting, Ray-tracing
Hidden surface and illumination calculations are built into the raycasting
mechanism
Radiosity-based Rendering
More realistic images, accounts for secondary illumination from diffusely
reflected light.
Rendering Issues Today
Complex dynamic scenes with lot’s of detailed textures -- in real time.
How to deal with complexity, i.e. with a really large model of a building;
>= 10M polygons,
and user interaction, and physical simulation ...
SLIDE Survey
Please give us feedback on our modular rendering system.
There is more ...
Advanced Topics that we have not talked about:
Rendering issues today.
Advanced image processing.
Reality acquisition.
User interaction.
Applications of computer graphics.
Movie
Where to go from here ?
CS 160, CS 199, CS 284, CS 285, CS 294-x, ...
Current Homework Assignment:
ASG#10
"Your Final Project"
DUE: Wednesday 5/12/99, 11:59pm.
CAN BE DONE WITH YOUR PARTNER OF CHOICE !
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