Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
       

Speaker:  Hugh Fisher

Title: The Programmable 3D Graphics Revolution
       

Abstract:

Interactive 3D computer graphics are usually built on a standard
fixed function rendering pipeline architecture that has not
changed significantly in design since the early 1980's. In the
past couple of years revolutionary new designs for 3D graphics
have appeared: the programmable GPUs from nVidia and ATI.

In this seminar I will talk about the ancestry of the fixed
function 3D architecture, the extensions mechanism used to add
new capabilities to OpenGL and the associated difficulties, and
the rise of the new programmable GPUs. These are a new and
rapidly changing technology that I've only just begun to explore,
but I hope to give an overview of the terminology, how to get
started as a developer, and the potential for the future.


Biography:

Hugh Fisher is a researcher in the Dept of Computer Science
at ANU who rambles on about 3D graphics at the slightest excuse.

Further Information: contact Hugh Fisher hugh.fisher[at]anu.edu.au

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars03/dept20030924