Graphics IDE的推荐：

• 推荐：VS，VSC
• 不推荐：CLion, Eclipse / Sublime, Vi/Vim, Emacs

Why study Computer Graphics?

• Applications: Video Games, Movies, Animations, Design, Visualization, VR&AR, Digital Illustration, Simulation, GUI, Typography

• Fundamental Intellectual Challenges

  • Creates and interacts with realistic virtual world
  • Requires understanding of all aspects of physical world
  • New computing methods, displays, technologies

• Technical Challenges

  • Math of (perspective) projections, curves, surfaces
  • Physics of lighting and shading
  • Representing / operating shapes in 3D
  • Animation / simulation
  • 3D graphics software programming and hardware

Course Topics (mainly 4 parts)

• Rasterization
• Curves and Meshes
• Ray Tracing
• Animation / Simulation