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1.intro To Computer Graphics

Computer graphics involves the creation, manipulation and storage of geometric objects and images as well as displaying those images on screens. It is used in various industries such as movies, games, medical imaging, scientific visualization and computer-aided design. The movie industry uses computer graphics for quality and artistry while meeting tight schedules. The game industry is a major driving force due to volume and profit. Medical imaging focuses on precision and correctness while presenting data. Computer-aided design reduces product design cycles. Key hardware includes the graphics card, frame buffer and display.

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1.intro To Computer Graphics

Computer graphics involves the creation, manipulation and storage of geometric objects and images as well as displaying those images on screens. It is used in various industries such as movies, games, medical imaging, scientific visualization and computer-aided design. The movie industry uses computer graphics for quality and artistry while meeting tight schedules. The game industry is a major driving force due to volume and profit. Medical imaging focuses on precision and correctness while presenting data. Computer-aided design reduces product design cycles. Key hardware includes the graphics card, frame buffer and display.

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PRESENTED BY: SIMRAN

Creation,

Manipulation, and Storage of geometric objects (modeling) and their images (rendering) Display those images on screens or hardcopy devices Image processing Others: GUI, Displays (VR)...

Movie

Industry

Leaders in quality and artistry Not slaves to conceptual purity Big budgets and tight schedules Reminder that there is more to CG than technology Hey, How'd they do that? Defines our expectations

Slide information from Leonard McMillian's slides http://www.cs.unc.edu/~mcmillan/comp136/Lecture1/compgraf.html

Game

Industry

The newest driving force in CG


Why? Volume and Profit This is why we have commodity GPUs

Focus on interactivity Cost effective solutions Avoiding computating and other tricks Games drive the baseline

Medical

Imaging and Scientific Visualization

Tools for teaching and diagnosis


No cheating or tricks allowed

New data representations and modalities Drive issues of precision and correctness Focus on presentation and interpretation of data Construction of models from acquired data

Nanomanipulator, UNC Joe Kniss, Utah Gordon Kindelman, Utah

Computer

Aided Design

Mechanical, Electronic, Architecture,... Drives the high end of the hardware market Integration of computing and display resources Reduced design cyles == faster systems, sooner

ProEngineer, www.ptc.com

Frame

Buffer-Chunk of RAM in w/c the computer program stores the image in form of pixels Display Hardware-produces image line by line Video Controller-H/W device that constantly reads frame buffer and produces image on display

high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. The term used to refer to a mainframe computer terminal or a PC connected to a network. offered higher performance than desktop computers,

computer hardware that generates computer graphics and allows them to be shown on a display, usually using a graphics card (video card) in combination with a device driver to create the images on the screen. The most important piece of graphics hardware is the graphics card(piece of equipment that renders out all images and sends them to a display.) graphics cards: integrated and dedicated integrated graphics card: is bound to the motherboard and shares RAM(Random Access Memory) with the CPU, reducing the total amount of RAM available.

A dedicated

graphics card :has its own RAM and Processor for generating its images, and does not slow down the computer. have higher performance than integrated graphics cards It is possible to have both dedicated and integrated graphics, however once a dedicated graphics card is installed, the integrated card will no longer function until the dedicated card is removed. Parts of a Graphics Card : The GPU or graphics processing unit, is the unit that allows the graphics card to function.

Video

Memory is built in RAM installed on the video card that provides the graphics card with its own RAM and allows it to run smoothly without having to take resources from the computer Display Drivers : A display driver is a piece of software which allows your graphics hardware to communicate with your operating system. allow your computer to utilize parts of itself, and without them, the machine would not function. a driver is required to translate between the two, and convert general commands into specific commands, and vice versa.

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