Scientific and large data visualization

Paolo Cignoni    Tel. 0503152926
Massimiliano Corsini    Tel. 050 3152927

The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to main topic of 3D computer graphics both in theory and practice. A significant part of the course will involve the realization of a project involving mostly surface modeling and processing and interactive rendering. Topics covered will include: - Modeling: Data structures for representing surfaces with simplicial complexes - Modeling: Data structure for spatial indexing - Modeling: High level frameworks for the representation of structured scene and environments - Rendering: The basic projective rendering pipeline. Hardware architectures for Rendering - Rendering: Algorithms for Global Illumination and photorealistic rendering. - Rendering: Shading Languages and advanced interactive rendering technique