(undergraduate)

Introductory course in computer graphics that covers topics such as:
 

Graphics pipeline

Primitive drawing algorithms: line segments, polygons

Antialiasing

Geometric transformations in 2D and 3D

Colour representation

Object hierarchies,  transformation composition

Clipping algorithms for line segments and polygons

 Culling: back-face, frustum

Perspective and orthographic projections

Hidden surface removal

Lighting principles, basic models and algorithms

Animation basics

Texture mapping basics

Parametric curves and surfaces

OpenGL programming

  (undergraduate)  Note: this course has not been active in the last few years

This advanced course on computer graphics covers topics like texturing, ray-tracing and animation. A detailed list of topics can be found below:

Textures

• Texture coordinate generation (planar,cylindrical,box,sperical,custom)
• Procedural textures
• Mip-mapping
• Texture and shading trees
• Multi-texturing and detail textures
• Bump-mapping
• Environment mapping (and specular maps)

Shadows

• Shadow generation techniques overview
• Shadow volumes
• Shadow maps
• Pre-calculated illumination (light maps) and multi-pass rendering

Ray-tracing

• Principles of ray-casting methods
• The generic ray-tracing algorithm
• Intersections (line-plane,line-triangle,line-sphere,line-box)
• Bounding volumes and BV hierarchies
• Introduction to space partitioning techniques
• Ray-tracing optimizations

Modelling

• Principles of paramatric curve and surface representation
• Elements of Bezier curves and surfaces
• Introduction to B-Splines and NURBS
• Billboards
• Multiresolutional object representation (LOD)

Animation

• Key frame animation
• Morphing in 3D
• Skeletal animation and skinning
• Bone hierarchies and forward kinematics

New name: Advanced Graphics Algorithms 

(postgraduate)

This postgraduate course mainly aims at extending the topics covered in the undergraduate graphics courses but also introduce elements of fractal theory and model generation. The topics discussed in this course include:
 

• Overview of graphics theory elements (see Graphics I)
• 3D object modeling and data structures
  
• 3D model simplification
• Culling: occlusion
• Quaternions for rotation
• Perspective correction
• Lighting: further topics including Ambient Occlusion
  
• Global illumination
• Ray tracing
  
• Fractal theory
• Iterated Function Systems
• Approximation algorithms for constructing Mandelbrot and Julia sets