60005/70090 Computer Graphics from 2025

Overview

DoC course code CO317

Note that this course has been timetabled for 2 hours per week:

Friday, 11-13h
http://shaderlabweb.doc.ic.ac.uk/ and MS Teams for coursework

However, not all timetabled slots will be used every week so please check the timetable below for more information. All notes, tutorials and coursework (including coursework hand-out/in dates) can be found on Scienta and CATe. Revision notes on vector algebra can be found here. A coordinate system refresher here and here.

Questions can be discussed on the course’s edstem forum (60005 Graphics [Spring 2023]) and our lab queue on MS Teams.

Timetable

Week 1 (starting 13th January)

		No lectures, no tutorials.

Week 2 (starting 20th January)		getting up to speed.
311+online Friday 11-12:30	pre-recorded + live session	00 Logistics 01 Projections and Transformations (YouTube) 02 Transformations for animation (YouTube ) 03 Clipping and 3D Geometry (YouTube)	Lecture	Kainz
notes		N00 Logistics N01 Projections and Transformations N02 Animation N03 Clipping S01 Projections and Transformations S02 Animation S03 Clipping
Friday 12:30-13:00	MS Teams/311 (planned)	MS Teams	Q&A	Baugh and team
Friday 12:30-13:00	MS Teams Lab Queue	MS Teams T01 3D space and transformations	Tutorial	Baugh and team
solution: Scientia 2 weeks after deadline		Coursework Task 1	not assessed	team

Week 3 (starting 27th January)
311+online Friday 11-12:30	pre-recorded + live session	watch videos: 04 Graphics Pipeline and APIs (YouTube) 05 Shading languages (YouTube) watch videos and in class discussion: 06 Illumination, Shading & Color I 07 Illumination, Shading & Color II	Lecture	Kainz
notes		N0405 Graphics pipeline S04 Graphics pipeline S05 shading languages N06 Illumination N07 Color N08 Texture
Friday 12:30-13:00	MS Teams	MS Teams	Q&A	Cechnicka and team
Friday 12:30-13:00	MS Teams Lab Queue	MS Teams Lab: Getting started with GLSL T02 Illumination, Shading & Color Lab: Illumination, Shading & Color	Lab queue/Tutorial	Cechnicka and team
solution: CATe 2 weeks after deadline		Coursework Task 2	not assessed	team

Week 4 (starting 03rd February)
311+online Friday 11-12	MS Teams/ 311 (planned)	08 Texture Mapping 09 Rasterization, Visibility & Anti-aliasing	Lecture	Kainz
notes		N09 Rasterization
Friday 11-12	MS Teams/311 (planned)	MS Teams	Q&A	team
Friday 12-13	MS Teams Lab Queue	MS Teams T03 Texture Mapping Lab: Texture	Tutorial	team
deadline: 14/02, 19:00 solution 2 weeks after deadline on Scientia		Coursework Task 3	assessed	team

Week 5 (starting 10th February)
311+online Friday 11-12	MS Teams/ 311 (planned)	10 Ray Tracing I 11 Ray Tracing II	Lecture	Birdal
notes		N1011 RayTracing
Friday 11-12	MS Teams/ 311 (planned)	MS Teams	Q&A	team
Friday 12-13	MS Teams Lab Queue	MS Teams T04 Ray Tracing	Tutorial	team
solution: Scientia		Coursework Task 3	assessed	team

Week 6 (starting 17th February)
311+online Friday 11-12	MS Teams/ 311 (planned)	12 3D Geometry	Lecture	Birdal
notes
Friday 11-12	MS Teams/ 311 (planned)	MS Teams	Q&A	team
Friday 12-13	MS Teams Lab Queue	TBA	Tutorial	team
deadline: 21/02, 19:00 solution 2 weeks after deadline on Scientia		Coursework Task 4	assessed	Team

Week 7 (starting 24th February)
311+online Friday 11-12	MS Teams/ 311 (planned)	13 3D Representations 14 Structure from Motion (& SLAM)	Lecture	Birdal
notes
Friday 11-12	MS Teams/ 311 (planned)	MS Teams	Q&A	Baugh and team
Friday 12-13	MS Teams Lab Queue	MS Teams TBA	Tutorial	Baugh and team
deadline: 07/03, 19:00 solution 2 weeks after deadline on Scientia		Coursework Task 5	assessed	Team

Week 8 (starting 03rd Mar)
311+online Friday 11-12	pre-recorded/live	15 State of the Art Topics: NeRFs, Gaussian Splatting, Hybrid representations	Lecture	Birdal
notes
Friday 11-12	MS Teams	MS Teams	Q&A	team
Friday 12-13	MS Teams Lab Queue	MS Teams Lab Queue	Tutorial	team

deadline: 07/03, 19:00 solution 2 weeks after deadline on CATe		Coursework Task 5	assessed	Team
Week 9 (starting 10th March)
online	–	Revision	–	Birdal/Kainz

Schedule

Coursework

There will be six practical coursework tasks; three of them are assessed:

Framework
Transformations
Illumination (example output 3a 3b 3c 3d) (assessed 40%)
Texture & Render to Texture (example output 5a 5b 5c) (assessed 10%)
Simple GPU ray tracing (example output 6a, 6b) (50%)

The individual tasks of the coursework will be implemented using a simplified framework for shader development: http://shaderlabweb.doc.ic.ac.uk/

The ShaderLabWeb Framework

ShaderLabWeb is a teaching tool to solidify the fundamentals of Computer Graphics. The ShaderLabWeb framework is based on JavaScript, Node.js, WebGL, and GLSL and allows the student to modify GLSL shaders in an IDE-like environment. The framework is able to render shaded polyhedral geometry (.off/.obj), supports image-based post-processing, and allows to implement simple ray-tracing algorithms.