[gameprogrammer] Re: 18 hours

When i did 3rd year graphics at uni, We had 2 major assignments. The 
first was to draw a bezier curve onto a flat surface. The second was to 
write a ray tracer, with reflection, shadows, phong shading, specular 
highlights etc.... using openGL

Now youve only got like 18 hours, maybe that enough. I thought that the 
ray tracer assignment taught me the most. Make them write a simple 
raytracer, with constant lighting :)
Thats probably not quite the aim of the course though. Maybe explain the 
principles, and show/give them example code. As you know, writing a 
simple raytracer is a fairly trivial exercise.

Bob Pendleton wrote:

>Some time this year I will be trying to teach the basics of 3D graphics
>for game programmers in 6 classes of 3 hours each. It has been a looong
>time since I learned 3D graphics and so I only vaguely remember what was
>hard to learn and what was not. The assumption is that the students know
>how to program in C/C++, but there is no math requirement and no
>graphics requirement. I have a few other lectures that I plan to use to
>cover the basics of graphics hardware and I concepts such as a pixel and
>a surface and so on. 
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>What I would like to hear from you is what you, as game programmers,
>would want to learn. What do you think are key concepts. What was hard
>for you to learn, and so on. You could help me a lot by telling me about
>your experiences learning 3D graphics. 
>
>Oh, yeah... before I forget. What are the books and websites that helped
>you the most? I tend to stick to Foley & van Dam "Computer Graphics,
>Principles and Applications". But, I have had complaints from students
>about using that book. 
>
>Putting this all together will not only help me with my class, but it
>should (might) help all of us and future programmers learn the material
>in a way that is relevant to game programming.
>
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>               Bob Pendleton
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