Foundations of rendering - lorentzo/IntroductionToComputerGraphics GitHub Wiki

Introduction

• Motivate with applications
• Analogy: taking photograph from a real world; interaction of objects and light
• rendering equation
• Light transport
• Rendering approaches solving rendering equation
  • real-time/interactive vs offline. Global illumination.
• Practical rendering approaches: raytracing and rasterization

Foundations of Raytracing

Overview and practical implementation: https://github.com/lorentzo/IntroductionToComputerGraphics/wiki/Foundations-of-Raytracing

Practical example on production software: Blender, Cyccles renderer

• Topics: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/index.html

Foundations of Graphics pipeline (GPU)

Overview and practical implementation: https://github.com/lorentzo/IntroductionToComputerGraphics/wiki/Graphics-Rendering-Pipeline-on-GPU

Practical example on production software: Blender, EEVEE renderer

• Topics: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/index.html

Outcomes

• Understanding the big picture of rendering
• Practical approach to rendering based on raytracing
• Understanding what is raytracing and its components
• Handling code and practical implementation of simple raytracer
• Understanding Graphics pipeline and its components
• Handling code and practical implementation of simple rasterizer