Teaching a Modern Graphics Pipeline Using a Shader-based Software Renderer

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2012
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The Eurographics Association
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Shaders are a fundamental pattern of the modern graphics pipeline. This paper presents a syllabus for an introductory computer graphics course that emphasizes the use of programmable shaders while teaching raster-level algorithms at the same time. We describe a Java-based framework that is used for programming assignments in this course. This framework implements a shader-enabled software renderer and an interactive 3D editor. We also show how to create attractive course materials by using COLLADA, an open standard for 3D content exchange.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/conf/EG2012/education/073-080
, booktitle = {
Eurographics 2012 - Education Papers
}, editor = {
Giovanni Gallo and Beatriz Sousa Santos
}, title = {{
Teaching a Modern Graphics Pipeline Using a Shader-based Software Renderer
}}, author = {
Fink, Heinrich
and
Weber, Thomas
and
Wimmer, Michael
}, year = {
2012
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1017-4656
}, ISBN = {}, DOI = {
/10.2312/conf/EG2012/education/073-080
} }
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