I'm sorry to inform you that the lecture will not be held in WS2021 but is planned in WS02022. 

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