Term 1 Schedule

Week	Lecture
1	Lecture LA01 Game Graphics, Models, Pipelines, GPU, APIs, Game Engines Lab LabA01 Hello 3D World ! - Environment Setting, APIs, Coordinate Systems, Drawing Triangles, Setting up the Scene Further Reading Video: Pat Hanrahan (May 16, 2023) Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphics Systems (Talk at Stanford) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL4H1ct_-dI Real-time Rendering chapter 2 The Graphics Rendeing Pipeline Chapter 3 GPU My slides: A Brief History of Computer Graphics
2	Lecture LA02 Coordinate Systems, Vectors, Matrix, Transformations and Mesh, Normal Transformation, Ray Intersection Lab LabA02 Simple mesh data strucure, calculating vertex normals, displaying colours Transformation of Normals Further Reading C Matrix and Determinants, Transformation Types
3	Lecture LA03 More transforamtions - Rotation (Euler Angle), Transformation of Frames，Hierarchical Modelling Transformation, Viewing Transformation Lab LabA03 Rotation and scenegraph Use Euler Angles, Pitch, Roll Yaw, Trackball Controll of Cameras Scenegraph classes with C++ (a tank) Further Reading: Rodrigues Formula
4	Lecture LA04 Projection and Ray Casting - Perspective projection and Ray Intersection Lab LabA04 Setting Model-View-Projection matrices in the vertex shader, Picking
5	Lecture LA05 Rasterisation, Shading, Basic Lighting LabA05 Shader Programming - Phong and Blinn-Phong lighting
6	Lecture LA06 Physical-based Lighting Models - BRDF, GG ? LabA06 Lighting with shaders - GGX model
7	Enrichment Week Self-study: How mesh models are created
8	Lecture ? LA07 Basic Ray Tracing and Acceleration Data Structures - Bounding Volume Hierarchies LabA07 Ray tracing with compute shader
9	Lecture LA08 Texture Mapping - Mipmap Lab08 Texture Mapping, Mipmap, Environment Mapping Channel Packing
10	Lecture LA09 More mapping - Bump mapping, Displacement Mapping, Parallax Mapping, Normal Mapping, Ambient Occulusion Mapping, Procedural Textures, render to texture Lab LabA09 Fragment Shader Programming Self-study : fog, flare, motion blur, depth of field; Procedural textures, shadows
11	Lecture LA10 Postprocessing Effects - fog, flare, motion blur, depth of field Lab LabA10 Fragment Shader Programming
12	Lecture LA11 Shadowing - shadow map, ray tracing ... Further reading: Ambient occulusion and soft shadows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teB-pbAd8JE&list=PLplnkTzzqsZS3R5DjmCQsqupu43oS9CFN&index=23 LabA12 Shadow Map How to implement shadow map https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhopq2lkzMQ&list=PLplnkTzzqsZS3R5DjmCQsqupu43oS9CFN&index=16 LA11 Lab LabA11 Collision detection and picking
13	Lecture LA12 Environmental Elements: Terrain, Foliage, Cloud, Fog, Smoke, Fire - Partical systems and rocedural generation Leave water to Term 2 Lab ? LabA12 Procedural terrain and textures Particle systems (smoke, fire, rain)