Angus Forbes, Instructor
angus.forbes@mat.ucsb.edu

Description
This course introduces fundamental concepts in real-time computer graphics programming. The goal of the course is to provide students with a solid foundation in programming techniques as well as to introduce various approaches to representing, manipulating, and thinking about form and space. Students will become thoroughly acquainted with the OpenGL library and the GLSL shading language while investigating lighting models, texturing, curves and surfaces, dynamics, space partitioning, geometric data structures, and animation, as well as other related topics. In addition to frequent varied assignments that include reading, quizzes, short programming exercises, collaborative experiments and a research presentation, students will be graded on the technical and creative aspects of a final project. Each class will include both a lectures and a programming lab. Students should have experience programming in a high-level object-oriented language, such as Java or C++. All students are required to bring a laptop to each class in order to participate in programming exercises.

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