Requirements : C/C++ knowledge

Notes :

• Implementation is done in C++ with OpenGL and QT or GLUT, on a GNU/Linux or Windows OS.
• Other languages allowing OpenGL are possible, please contact us.
• Real-time shaders development is done with GLSL or Cg.
• We can propose you the training under DirectX / HLSL
  
• Time: 10 days for a good programmer.
  

Sessions on demand: Ask more information

Cost : 4 000 Euros without V.A.T (19.6%) for 1 person during 10 days. Travel, lodging and meals NOT included.

Content

1. Introduction

   • 3D rendering pipeline
   Rendering pipeline, hardware acceleration
   • OpenGL
   History, extensions, software pipeline, states C++ interface, operating system interface
   • GLUT and/or QT

2. Mathematics

   • Vectors, basis, operators, ...
   Dot product, cross product, cylindrical and spherical basis, ...
   • Affine transformations(rotations, composition, ... )
   Homogeneous coordinates, Euler angles, gimbal lock, arbitrary axis rotations, quaternions, ...

3. Modeling in 3D

   • Modeling 3D objects
   Primitives and geometrical meshes, display lists, vertex arrays, vertex buffer objects, ... Parametric curves and surfaces, polynomial curves, Catmull-Rom spline, curves and Bezier patches, B-Splines, NURBS
   • Handling time
   Timers, double buffering, ...
   • Modeling the scene
   Space coordinates (object, world, ...), scene graphs, ...
   • The observer
   Camera models, orthographic and perspective projection, viewport, vertex pipeline, clipping, guardband clipping, rasterisation, Z-Buffer, ...
   • Modeling lighting
   Shading models, lighting models, OpenGL lighting model : diffuse and specular reflection, ambient and others, ... Phong and Blinn/Phong shading models + others BRDFs, ... Light sources, (point, spot, directional), materials and other globals parameters Precomputed lighting: env maps, spherical harmonics, radiosity, photon mapping, ...
   • Texture mapping
   Texture space, perspective correction, filtering(magnification, mignification), mip-mapping, trilinear, anisotropic filtering, texture formats and compression, ... Texture mapping with OpenGL( texture objects, texture coordinates, parameterization, blending, ...)

4. SFX - special effects
   

   • Image-based
   Skybox, billboards (screen, viewpoint, axial), impostors, particules, shadow mapping, ...
   • Based on stencil buffer
   Mirrors, projective shadows, shadow volumes, ...
   • Based on accumulation buffer
   Motion blur, object motion blur, depth of field, antialiasing, other effects, ...
   • Antialiasing methods
   Per primitive, global (hardware)

5. Acceleration methods

   • Hidden object removal
   Backface culling, bounding volumes, occlusion culling (silhouette, horizons, hierarchical zbuffers, cell-based, ...)
   • Levels of detail
   Geometrical simplification, terrains, ...
   • Spacial division
   Hierarchies, portals, grids, quadtree, octree, BSP, ...

6. Advanced animation

   • Keyframes
   Squeleton, skinning, ...
   • Physical animation
   Detection and response to collisions, fluids, ...

7. Real-time shaders

   • Theory
   Pipeline, models, types, versions, languages ; vertex, fragment and geometry shaders.
   • Practice
   GLSL, Cg (& CGFx) or HLSL (& .fx) ; FxComposer, RenderMonkey.
   • Implementation of RT effects
   Toon, phong, glow, HDR, NPR, ...