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Course Description

The course covers graphics hardware, game engine architectures, and the mathematics and algorithms used to create digital games. Topics will include shader based rendering and programming. Students will implement portions of a game engine which incorporates animation, collision detection, and simulated physics. Programming required.

Prerequisite:

CSE 386

Learning Outcomes:

1. Construct and utilize vertex and fragment shaders to simulate realistic lighting and other rendering effects
2. Implement a basic scene-graph architecture that supports real-time rendering of an animated scene
3. Formulate and solve problems to determine orientations and positions relative to a specified coordinate frame using transformation arithmetic
4. Demonstrate through implementation an understanding of collision detection and rigid body dynamics to simulate real-time physics
5. Analyze an interactive application involving real-time rendering to correct inefficiencies
6. (Graduate students only) Independently re-implement advanced rendering algorithms and merge them into a rendering pipeline
7. (Graduate students only) Contrast and compare alternative techniques for solving problems in computer graphics or real-time visual simulation