Short Topical Seminar

The short topical seminar is worth 40% of the assignment mark. Ideally this assignment should be done in a group of 2 or 3 students. However, it may be done individually if you have difficulties forming a group or would rather work alone. The seminars will be throughout the entire semester starting in week 3. Topics and groups will be allocated in Week 1. Although content presented in these seminars is not directly examinable, they are aimed to re-enforce and deepen the understanding of examinable content which includes content presented in: lectures, guest lectures, the text book, and lab assignments.

Each group is given 5 mins of presentation time per student(plus some time for questions). So a group of 3 would have 15 mins. Students are expected to create pdf data projector slides which must be posted to the wattle site prior to the seminar. Someone from your group should check that the projector slides are viewable within the lecture theater prior to the seminar. Also turn up at the very beginning of the lecture slot to get the slides ready to go.

The topics will follow the lecture series so you may assume that some the basic ideas and approach will have already been covered. As you only have a very short amount of time your seminar should be very focused. Normally you would be expected to include the following in your seminar:

Introduce - get people interested, state and motivate your topic
Explain - provide an explanation or overview of the topic
Illustrate(optional) - provide some sort of example or illustration to help people understand the topic
Discuss - critically explore the topic in terms of it's current and future utility

All of the topical seminars will be in the first hour of the Monday 2:00pm-4:00pm lecture slot starting week 3. They will be in the normal lecture room(DEMS T(Building 47)).

Topic Week Group

History of the CIE standard relating to the primaries and color matching 3 David Noack

gamma correction 3 Scott OBrien

Scientific Visualization 3 Nguyen

The very first graphics devices 3 Michael Carden

Electronic Paper 3 Jung-Nan Cheng, Darshan Pradhan

Vector Displays 4 Asad Sultan

Wii controller 4 Chen Yan Tu, Pranau Chandra, Anita Donkers, David Leung

Midpoint Circle Drawing 4 Sam Findlay

Applications of CIE Colorimetry : Estimating the True Colors of Mars 4 Travis Stenberg, Temi Varghese, Swe Zin Lynn

The history of gaming graphics 5 Carlos Teixeira, Steven Perkov

The technology of Scanners 5 Samuel Power

Using 'Processing' for computer graphics 5 Taihao, Wen, Thamizh Amizhthan

Pixar - a history and overview 6 Ian, Danny, Huw

The blitter and the Commodore Amiga 6 Don Du, Melvin Yong

Quaternions - What are they? Why are they in the textbook? 6 Jonathan Shaw, Grant Lancaster, Richard Pywell

The computer game industry 7 Paul Phillis

Rendering Farms 7 Chris Lesbirel

Shadows in OpenGL 7 Jimmy Thomson, Chris Pelling

Video Conferencing Technology 7 Yuen Hiu Kim, Jiayi Li

The development of LCD 7 Zhiguo Miao

Inside a GPU 8 Artyom Dziouba, Matt Ellis, Matt Rankin

Direct3D vs OpenGL 8 Lv Xiang, Yiling(William) Han

OpenCL 8 Sotirios Diamond, Samuel Rathmanner, Christopher Fraser

Drawing Text in OpenGL - Bitmap fonts 9 Luke

Drawing Text in OpenGL - using stroke characters 9 Yuanpeng Li

Game Engines 9 Roohan Kazi , Florian Nebout, Shyambuj Srivastava

Using Java 3D 9 Nicola Harris, Michael Karas, Eddy Chehadeh

Shading and Deferred Shading 10 James Richards, Michael Chapman, Jonathon Hunklinger

Rendering in the original Doom 10 David Sullivan

What happened to VRML? 10 Le Qi, Minh Duc Nguyen, Duy Huynh

Bayer Filter 10 Ron Waldon, Steve Thompson

Texture Mapping in modern GPU's 11 Edwin Whippy, Diana McDonald, Tegan Holcombe

Huffman Encoding 11 Zihang Wu, Nanqian Wu

Physics simulations 11 Nimalan Nandapalan

Using YafRay 11 David Barr Joel Plane

Digital Media Art with Computer Vision and Graphics 11 Charles Martin

Raytracing into sparse voxel octrees 12 Nicholas Bourke, Jeffrey Thompson

Procedural Generation of Content 12 Paul Krix, Simon White

Obsolete Graphics Modes (Micro-bee, hold-and-modify, ??) 12 Sanders King

Subsurface scattering (a technique used to render translucent stuff eg. skin, milk, wax) 12 John Haynes

Computer Vision - similarities and differences with computer graphics 12 Gareth Oliver

Lab Assignments

This is worth 60% of the assignment mark.

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