Lecture 2 Topics

• Students Wanted for Mobile Websurfing Visualization Project

• Semester Project Suggestions Due Wednesday

• Introduction to Shading & Procedural Techniques

• Intro to Visualization

• PC Graphics Chips
  • Are they going to stay around - see editorial at Microdesign Resources

  • Hardware Graphics Basic Rendering Overview from Microdesign Resources

  • 3D Graphics Pipeline from Hardware point of View:

    

  • What are Triangle Strips?

    

  • Review Paper on Graphics Chips, "The Wild World of 3D Graphics Chips," by George Lawton, IEEE Computer, September 2000.

• For next class, look at the Nvidia Technical Papers.

Lecture 3 Topics

• Project topics due today

• Nvidia's view of the Graphics Pipeline

  

• Advantage of Shading example:

  

• Advantages of having Texturing and Lighting on the GPU
  • Free up CPU for what?
  • Bandwidth, Load Balancing

• Where/How are they calculating what

• Why is their method faster/cheaper than on a CPU?
• Light Maps and Vertex Lighting
  • Light Maps
  • Per-pixel rasterizer