After successful completion of the course, students are able to plan, implement, test and evaluate the design and programming of a rendering engine. The scene description, graphical APIs and optimization techniques play an important role.

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

Lecture with slides, semester project and presentation.

Lecture will be remote (see lecture homepage)

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.

Oral examination and submission interview.

Algorithms and Datastructures, Computergraphics