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.

Geometry and Tessellation, Deferred Shading, Ambient Occlusion, Physically-based Shading, OIT, Soft Shadows, Real-Time Global Illumination, Shader Optimization, Temporal Coherence, Point-Cloud Rendering

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

ECTS Breakdown: 3 ECTS = 75 hours

• lectures: 18 hours
• assignments (implementation and documentation): 45 hours
• presentation and group discussion: 6 hours
• preparations for presentations and group discussions: 6 hours

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

Grading of assignments.

Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition by Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines and Naty Hoffman (Jul 25, 2008)

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, Second Edition by David Wolff (Dec 24, 2013)

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