CS2401 COMPUTER GRAPHICS Syllabus - VII Semester - Final Year - IT Department

CS2401 COMPUTER GRAPHICS

UNIT I 2D PRIMITIVES

Output primitives – Line, Circle and Ellipse drawing algorithms - Attributes of output

primitives – Two dimensional Geometric transformation - Two dimensional viewing –

Line, Polygon, Curve and Text clipping algorithms

UNIT II 3D CONCEPTS

Parallel and Perspective projections - Three dimensional object representation –

Polygons, Curved lines, Splines, Quadric Surfaces,- Visualization of data sets - 3D

transformations – Viewing -Visible surface identification.

UNIT III GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING

Color Models – RGB, YIQ, CMY, HSV – Animations – General Computer Animation,

Raster, Keyframe - Graphics programming using OPENGL – Basic graphics primitives –

Drawing three dimensional objects - Drawing three dimensional scenes

UNIT IV RENDERING

Introduction to Shading models – Flat and Smooth shading – Adding texture to faces –

Adding shadows of objects – Building a camera in a program – Creating shaded objects

– Rendering texture – Drawing Shadows.

UNIT V FRACTALS

Fractals and Self similarity – Peano curves – Creating image by iterated functions –

Mandelbrot sets – Julia Sets – Random Fractals – Overview of Ray Tracing –

Intersecting rays with other primitives – Adding Surface texture – Reflections and

Transparency – Boolean operations on Objects.

TOTAL :45PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Donald Hearn, Pauline Baker, Computer Graphics – C Version, second edition,

Pearson Education,2004.

2. F.S. Hill, Computer Graphics using OPENGL, Second edition, Pearson

Education,200UNIT III

REFERENCES:

1. James D. Foley, Andries Van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes, Computer

Graphics- Principles and practice, Second Edition in C, Pearson Education, 2007.