# Term 1 Schedule

## Note

for latest slides pleasee refer to Blackboard

for latest lab guides please refer the lab session on this site.

## Week 01 22/09/25

LectureA01 Introduction to computer graphics and the graphics pipeline

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[LabA01 Hello OpenGL ! - Set up OpenGL environment, draw a triangle](https://youbing.gitbook.io/graphics/graphics25/term1/laba01)

LearnOpenGL.com

Creating Window: <https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Creating-a-window>

Hello Window: <https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Hello-Window>

GLSL Cookbook: Chapter 1

Real-time Rendering chapter 2 The Graphics Rendeing Pipeline\
Chapter 3 GPU

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Further Readings\
Video: Pat Hanrahan (May 16, 2023)

Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphics Systems (Talk at Stanford)

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## Week 02 29/09/25

LectureA02 Vectors, matrices, transformations

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[LabA02 Transform with GLM, shader programming](https://youbing.gitbook.io/graphics/graphics25/term1/laba02)\
LearnOpenGL.com

Hello Triangle: <https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Hello-Triangle>

Shader basics: <https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Shaders>

Transformations: <https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Transformations>

Furthre readings

If you are curious about 3D rotations, you can watch this series with a total length of 90 minutes, but it is hard.

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1lnrQg5NAM&t=9s>" %}

## Week 03 06/10/25

LectureA03 More transforamtions - Hierarchical Modelling, View Transform

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LabA03 Load mesh models with Assimp, scene graph in C++, view transform\
Scenegraph: <https://learnopengl.com/Guest-Articles/2021/Scene/Scene-Graph>

## Week 04 13/10/25

(swapped with Game Engine Systems by Patrick)

## Week 05 20/10/25

(swapped with Game Engine Systems by Patrick)

## Week 06 27/10/25 (Workshop)

LectureA04 View and Projection

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[LabA04 Camera control and Perspective Projection](https://youbing.gitbook.io/graphics/graphics25/term1/laba04)\
Virtual arcball : <https://www.songho.ca/opengl/gl_camera.html>

## 30/10/25 Thursday (Workshop)

(swapped back from Game Engine Systems)

LectureA05 Lighting and Shading Basics

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[LabA05 Basic Lighting - Blinn-Phong and Phong](https://youbing.gitbook.io/graphics/graphics25/term1/laba05/)<br>

LearnOpenGL.com

Basic Lighting: <https://learnopengl.com/Lighting/Basic-Lighting>

Multiple lights: <https://learnopengl.com/Lighting/Multiple-lights>

Further Readings

{% embed url="<https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1029339/The-Character-Rendering-Art-of>" %}

## Week 07 Enrichment

Enrichment Week

No lectures and lab sessions\
Self-learning: How mesh models are created

## Week 08 10/11/25

LectureA06 Physical-based lighting models - GGX and BRDF

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LabA06 Physically-based Lighting - GGX model using GenAI\
LearnOpenGL.com

{% embed url="<https://learnopengl.com/PBR/Lighting>" %}

Further Reading

Allegorithmic PBR Guide (Easy)

{% embed url="<https://www.adobe.com/learn/substance-3d-designer/web/the-pbr-guide-part-1?learnIn=1&locale=en>" %}

Fresnel Effect

{% embed url="<https://www.dorian-iten.com/fresnel/>" %}

(Highly Recommended) GSN Composer Video Tutorial

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gya7x9H3mV0>" %}

(Hard) Chapter 9 Physically Based Shading, Real-Time Rendering, 4th Edition.

## Week 09 17/11/25

LectureA07 Texture Mapping

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LabA07 Texture mapping with OpenGL and GLSL, sky box or dome\
LearningOpenGL.com

<https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Textures>

## 20/11/25 Thursday

(swapped back from Game Engine Systems)

LectureA08 More mapping - Normal mapping, Cube Maps, PBR Maps

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Tutorial:

{% embed url="<https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/StandardShaderMaterialParameterNormalMap.html>" %}

{% embed url="<https://matereal.net/article/tutorial-normal-map/>" %}

Normal map creator: <https://xo3d.co.uk/tools/normal-map-creator/>\
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How to calcualte the tangent space: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHzi_z7OeT0&t=195s>

LabA08 Normal mapping\
LearnOpenGL.com

{% embed url="<https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lighting/Normal-Mapping>" %}

## Week 10 24/11/25

LectureA09 Shadow Maps

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Tutorial

{% embed url="<https://www.opengl-tutorial.org/intermediate-tutorials/tutorial-16-shadow-mapping/>" %}

LabA09 Shadow Maps

LearnOpenGL.com

How to implement shadow map

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhopq2lkzMQ&list=PLplnkTzzqsZS3R5DjmCQsqupu43oS9CFN&index=16>

Further reading:

Ambient occulusion and soft shadows

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## Week 11 01/12/25

LectureA10 Image-Space Effects - bloom, motion blur, etc.<br>

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LabA10 Bloom shader programming

Further Reading

{% embed url="<https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/bloom-in-unreal-engine?application_version=5.0>" %}

{% embed url="<https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Three/PostProcessEffectsHome.html>" %}

## Week 12 08/12/25

LectureA11 Spatial Structures

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LabA11 Picking and collision detection

<https://www.mbsoftworks.sk/tutorials/opengl3/18-3d-picking-pt1/>

<https://www.mbsoftworks.sk/tutorials/opengl3/19-3d-picking-pt2/>

Tutorial using C#: <https://gdbooks.gitbooks.io/3dcollisions/content/Chapter5/picking.html>

## Week 13 05/01/26

No new lectures : wrap-up,

No new lab sessions, drop-in