The goal of this lecture is to gain understanding of the design and the implementation rendering engines.

In this course we will focus on the following topics:

• Requirements for the design of rendering engines
• Hardware and Graphics APIs (OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan,..)
• Scene Representation (Scene graphs, display lists, command buffers,...)
• Static and Dynamic Data (Incremental Update Techniques)
• Optimizations (Caching, Culling, Level of Detail, Bounding Volume Hierarchies, Just-In-Time Optimization)
• Resource Management 
• Domain Specific Languages (HLSL, Spark, FShade, Semantic Scene Graph,..)
• Reusable Components/Design for Rendering Engines

ECTS-Breakdown

13.5 Std. Vorlesung
15   Std. Vorbereitung und Prüfung
46.5 Std. Übungsaufgabe lösen
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75 Std. entspricht 3 ECTS zu je 25 Std.

An oral exam is taken and a programming task must be completed. The task must supplement or deepen a topic of the lecture. Students freely choose to design, implement and analyse a rendering engine module as discussed in the lecture. 

Algorithms and Datastructures, Computergraphics