After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand advanced real-time rendering algorithms and also implement some of them. The algorithms are chosen from the topics listed further below.

Normal Mapping, GPU Synchronization, Geometry and Tessellation, Deferred Shading, Ambient Occlusion, Physically-based Shading, Order-Independent Transparency, Soft Shadows, Real-Time Global Illumination, Shader Optimization, Temporal Coherence, Point-Cloud Rendering, Real-Time Ray Tracing

Lectures, practical assignments (implementation and documentation), as well as presentation and group discussions.

ECTS Breakdown: 3 ECTS = 75 hours

• lectures: 15 hours
• assignments (implementation and documentation): 53 hours
• presentation and group discussion: 7 hours

Contact email address: artr@cg.tuwien.ac.at

Grading of assignments, and presentation and discussion of the elaborated solutions.

Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition, by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman, Angelo Pesce, Michal Iwanichi, and Sébastien Hillaire, A K Peters/CRC Press, 2018

OpenGL Insights by Patrick Cozzi and Christophe Riccio (Jul 23, 2012)

Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice, Second Edition by Mike Bailey and Steve Cunningham (Nov 8, 2011)

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, Third Edition, by David Wolff, Packt Publishing, 2018

Programming skills are required (C++, OpenGL/Vulkan, GLSL).