Motivation - lorentzo/IntroductionToComputerGraphics GitHub Wiki
What is computer graphics
Computer Graphics is about generating images with a computer.
Applications: what can we do with computer graphics.
Ability to understand nature, incorporate science and art with technology to create virtual environments that exist or never could have existed:
- Games: https://www.guerrilla-games.com/games (array of images generated based on user input)
- Animated film: https://www.pixar.com/feature-films-launch (array of images for given timeline)
- Science visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adhTmwYwOiA
- Manufacturing and Engineering: https://www.autodesk.de/products/fusion-360/features#3d-modeling
- Film and Visual Effects: https://www.wetafx.co.nz/, https://www.ilm.com/
- Architecture: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/solutions/architecture
- Ergonomic Design of Buildings and Offices
- Lighting Engineering
- Predictive Simulations
- Advertising
- Flight and Car Simulators
- Art: https://refikanadol.com/
About the course
This course is not about art, design, game-development, film, visualization in engineering and science domains but it gives foundations for making those with right domain knowledge. Computer graphics is a tool to create beautiful imagery but tool alone is not enough to create those images! Therefore, if you are interested in applying graphics to specific domain area (game, film, sci-vis, etc.) I encourage you to obtain the required domain knowledge as well!
Course project will be the opportunity for you to apply computer graphics to domains you find interesting.
Why this course might be interesting for you?
- You like physics and would like to see its practical applications in generating amazing imagery and effects.
- You like mathematics: computer graphics is applied mathematics. Enough said.
- You like programming: computer graphics is exciting application that employs complex architectures for modeling and rendering and in return gives very gratifying results.
- You like art and design: Computer graphics is not only about tools which serve for simulating and rendering 3D scenes - it is also how we use those tools to create something that exists or never existed
- You like animated films or VFX: yes there is a lot of computer graphics there combined with other disciplines to support stories to remember
- You like computer games: amazing application of computer graphics combined with different disciplines
- You like visualization: biology? Chemistry? Geology? Astronomy? Computer graphics is there for you!
About lecturer.
Glimpse into image generation: Intuition
Taking a photograph from a real world: objects, lights, camera and optics
Outcomes
- What is computer graphics
- Applications of computer graphics
- Aim of Computer graphics is to generate images