CS2013-final-report

Texture mapping, including minification and magnification (e.g., trilinear
MIP-mapping).
Application of spatial data structures to rendering.
Sampling and anti-aliasing.
Scene graphs and the graphics pipeline.
GV
Geometric
Modeling
Basic geometric operations such as intersection calculation and proximity
tests.
Parametric polynomial curves and surfaces.
Implicit representation of curves and surfaces.
Approximation techniques such as polynomial curves, Bezier curves,
spline curves and surfaces, and non-uniform rational basis (NURB)
spines, and level set method.
Surface representation techniques including tessellation, mesh
representation, mesh fairing, and mesh generation techniques such as
Delaunay triangulation, marching cubes.
6
SDF
Development
Methods
Program correctness
The concept of a specification
Unit testing
Modern programming environments, Programming using library
components and their APIs.
Debugging strategies.
Documentation and program style.
2
AR
Performance
enhancements
Superscalar architecture.
Branch prediction, Speculative execution, Out-of-order execution.
Prefetching.
Vector processors and GPUs.
Hardware support for Multithreading.
Scalability.
3
CN
Modeling and
Simulation
Formal models and modeling techniques: mathematical descriptions
involving simplifying assumptions and avoiding detail. The descriptions
use fundamental mathematical concepts such as set and function.
2
SE
Tools and
Environments
Software configuration management and version control; release
management
Requirements analysis and design modeling tools
Programming environments that automate parts of program construction
processes
3
SE Software Design The use of components in design: component selection, design,
adaptation and assembly of components, components and patterns,
components and objects (for example, build a GUI using a standard
widget set).
4
Other comments
http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/courses/cs371/f12/files/welcome.pdf is a carefully-crafted introduction to computer
graphics and this specific style of course that may be useful to other instructors.
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