320492 – Topics in Graphics
320494 – Topics in Graphics Project
Prof. Lars Linsen
Spring 2013
Jacobs University
Visualization and Computer Graphics Lab
Course website
• Link in CampusNet
• http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/llinsen/
teaching/320492.htm
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Pre- & Co-requisites
Prerequisites:
320491: Advanced Graphics
320632: Advanced Graphics Lab
Corequisites:
320492: Topics in Graphics
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Instructor
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Lars Linsen
Office: Res I, 128.
Phone: 3196
E-Mail: l.linsen [@jacobs-university.de]
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Teaching Assistent
• None
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Structure
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The seminar is based on presentations.
The project course is based on individual projects.
Each participant is supposed to pick a topic.
In the seminar, each participant is supposed to
present a survey over existing approaches, detailed
presentations on selected approaches, and project
presentations.
• In the project, each participant is dealing with a
project within the assigned topic. It consists of an
implementation of the proposed visualization methods
and a project report.
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Presentations
• There are, in total, 5 presentations:
– a survey presentation,
– two presentations on selected approaches, and
– two project presentations.
• These are formal presentations.
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Project
• The project consists of
– project implementation and
– final project report.
• The project report is structured as a research paper
of up to 8 pages in length. For formatting the paper,
please follow the formatting instructions given here.
Note that LaTeX and Word templates are provided.
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Literature
• State-of-the-art papers
• GPU Pro 2+3
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Attendance
• Attendance of all seminar participants to all
presentations is mandatory.
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Grading seminar
• The overview presentations counts 30% to the
overall grade.
• The two selected topic presentations count 20%
each to the overall grade.
• The two project presentations count 15% each to
the overall grade. The quality of the achieved results
is not judged in this context.
• As attendance is mandatory, each non-attendance
without official excuse leads to taking 5% off of the
final grade.
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Grading project
• The project grade is mainly given by the project
implementation with 80% of the overall grade.
• The project report delivers the remaining 20%.
• As attendance is mandatory, each non-attendance
without official excuse leads to taking 5% off of the
final grade.
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Lectures
• Times: Monday, 9:45am - 11:00am
Wednesday, 8:15am – 9:30am
• Location: West Hall 5
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Dates (tentative)
1st week: Getting acquainted to the project
2nd week: Topic selection & How-to presentation
3rd week: Overview presentations
4th week: Project update
5th week: First specific topic presentations
6th week: Project updates
7th week: First project presentations
8th week: Project updates
9th week: Second specific topic presentations
10th-12th week: Project updates
13th week: Second project presentations
14th week: Project updates & reports due 17.05.2013
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Content
• The seminar and the project cover selected topics of 3D computer
graphics. Computer graphics deals with the digital synthesis and
manipulation of visual content, typically embedded in a threedimensional scene. Prominent tasks in computer graphics are
geometry processing, rendering, and animation. Geometry processing
is concerned with object representations such as surfaces and their
modeling, rendering is concerned with simulating light transport to
get physically-based photorealistic images of 3D scenes or applying a
certain style to create non-photorealistic images, and animation is
concerned with descriptions for objects that move or deform over
time. The content includes state-of-the-art and newly emerging
approaches to
– geometry processing / modeling,
– rendering, and
– animation.
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Content
Rendering
Modeling
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mesh data structures
subdivision surfaces
multiresolution meshes
mesh smoothing
mesh parametrization
Animation
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deformation
morphing
particle systems
spring-mass models
applications
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global illumination
monte carlo methods
light field
lumigraph
non-photorealism
GPU programming:
• GL shading language
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Topic 1
• Modeling (Geometry Processing):
Close-to-isometric mesh
parametrization of a surface
over a close-by surface.
The goal is to be able to map the
texture of one surface onto the
other to see differences.
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Topic 2
• Rendering:
Time-coherent image-space point cloud rendering.
The problem is to use previous frames to compute
next frame after zooming without holes.
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Topic 3
• Animation:
Physically-based deformation of elastoplastic
material with fracture.
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Topic 4
• Visualization of Scalar Fields:
Direct volume rendering of particle simulations
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Topic 5
• Visualization of Vector Fields:
Stream functions for time-varying implicit flow
visualization
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Topic 6
• Visualization of Multi-run Data:
Visual analysis of an ensemble of simulation runs with
different simulation parameters to analyze the
influence of the parameter choices on the output.
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Topic 7++
• Vis 2013 Contest
http://sciviscontest.ieeevis.org/2013/VisContest/index.html
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