Seminar "Computer Graphics"
Computer Game Technology
(in German or English)

Introduction

The seminar "Computer Game Technology" gives you the chance to delve deeply into the secrets and mysteries of modern computer games. With the knowledge you will acquire with your co-participants, you will see computer games in a new light.

Have you ever wondered...

• ...how Quake 3 manages to draw all those nice effects
• ...what "fillrate", "multi-texturing" and "bump-mapping" are all about
• ...what effects modern graphics hardware is capable of
• ...how games solve the hidden surface problem
• ...what "lens flare" is
• ...how multiplayer works over huge networks
• ...what the secret behing "character animation" and "motion capturing" is
• ...and many more

then this seminar is for you! After settling on a specific topic, your supervisor will start you off with some pointers to literature, web-sites and the like. You will deepen your study of the chosen topic using our extensive library, the world wide web and other sources. After writing up your findings in a short paper, you will give a talk presenting your results to the other participants. One of the primary goals of the seminar is to learn how to make a good presentation overviewing the literature of a given topic and how to create appropriate slides for the talk.You will also learn how to research literature and how to write a scientific paper.

Preliminaries: Computer Graphics course, proseminar and interest in computer graphics and computer games advisable.

Organisational Details

The paper to be prepared should be 7-10 pages in length and should have the structure of a research paper (Abstract, Introduction, ..., Conclusions, References). The talk should be 20 minutes in length followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Paper and talk together can be either in German or English.

Here are some useful links to start an internet search for additional literature and you can use this PowerPoint template for your presentations.

Important dates

Mon, 5. 3. 2001, 16:00 s.t. (on time!); Seminar Room 186, Favoritenstrasse 9, 5th floor
  Vorbesprechung zum Seminar, Themeneinteilung

Tue, 20. 3. 2001, 16:00 s.t. (on time!) - 17:30; Seminar Room 186, Favoritenstrasse 9, 5th floor
  How to give a scientific presentation, seminar preparation talk by Prof. Werner Purgathofer (obligatory for all participants!).
   

This talk has been cancelled!
  How to write a scientific paper

 

We, 30. 5. 2001; Seminar Room 186, Favoritenstrasse 9, 5th floor
  Presentations Day 1 

 

	Human Motion Capture by Christiane Ulbricht ( supervised by Klaus Dorfmüller )
	Motion Capture Process by Peter Votruba ( supervised by Klaus Dorfmüller )
	Software Engineering in Games by Gabriel Wurzer and Balazs Lichtl ( supervised by Dieter Schmalstieg )
	Multiplayer Network Technology by Thomas Lidy ( supervised by Dieter Schmalstieg )
	Small Group Multiplayer Games by Markus Sabadello ( supervised by Dieter Schmalstieg )

We, 6. 6. 2001; Seminar Room 186, Favoritenstrasse 9, 5th floor
  Presentations Day 2 

 

	Point Visibility in Games by Harald Riegler ( supervised by Peter Wonka )
	Lighting Effects by Stefan Felkel ( supervised by Markus Hadwiger)
	Lighting Effects - 2 by Ivan Viola ( supervised by Markus Hadwiger )
	Shading Languages: Renderman by Markus Kummerer ( supervised by Alexander Wilkie )
	Shading Languages: GeForce3 by Michael Oswald ( supervised by Alexander Wilkie )

We, 13. 6. 2001; Seminar Room 186, Favoritenstrasse 9, 5th floor
  Presentations Day 3 

 

	Shadows by Gerald Matzka ( supervised by Michael Wimmer )
	Terrain Rendering in Games by Matej Mlejnek ( supervised by Michael Wimmer )
,	Levels of Detail by Oliver Gassner and Christian Troger ( supervised by Christian Faisstnauer)
	Environment Mapping by Simone Kriglstein and Günther Wallner ( supervised by Heinrich Hey )