Advanced Modelling, Rendering and Animation

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Description: The overall aim of this course is to teach the principles of modelling and rendering for the production of photorealistic images. By the end of this course students should have a firm understanding of advanced rendering techniques, including global illumination techniques, methods for real-time graphics, and image based approaches. Students will also be able to understand techniques for advanced modeling, including constructive solid geometry and B-Spline techniques. Finally students will have an introduction to physical and character-based animation techniques.
See the syllabus page for the general course structure.
Prerequisites: It is assumed that the students have already taken an introductory graphics course or 3080/GV10.
Assessment: The assessment will be based on two course works and a written examination. See here for more information.
Lecturers: , and .
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Time&Place: Mon: 2–4pm (Foster Court 132);
Wed: 10–11am (Foster Court 114).
Practicals will be Fridays, 2–4pm, room MPEB 1.05. The first practical will take place on 25th January.
Mailing Lists: The module uses the mailing list provided through UCL's Moodle system.
Past Exams: Past years' exam papers are available through UCL Library. Note (5 Feb 2013): as of to date, the most recent exam (2012) has not yet been made available by the library, so we are posting it here.
Readings:

Main Reading

Computer Graphics And Virtual Environments - From Realism to Real-Time. Mel Slater, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Anthony Steed, ISBN 0201-62420-6, Addison-Wesley, 2002. (See http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.steed/book_tmp/CGVE/.)

Additional Reading

J Foley, A van Dam, SK Feiner, JF Hughes, RR Phillips, Introduction to Computer Graphics, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-60921-5.
Nik Lever, Realtime 3D Character animation with Visual C++, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002, ISBN 0240516648.
Alan Watt, Mark Watt Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice, Addison Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-54412-1, 1992.
Francois X. Sillion and Claude Puech, Radiosity and Global Illumination, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 1994. ISBN 1-55860-277-1.

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