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

Heinrich Fink, Thomas Weber, Michael Wimmer
Teaching a Modern Graphics Pipeline Using a Shader-based Software Renderer
In Eurographics 2012 -- Education Papers. May 2012.
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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{fink-2012-cg1,
  title =      "Teaching a Modern Graphics Pipeline Using a Shader-based
               Software Renderer",
  author =     "Heinrich Fink and Thomas Weber and Michael Wimmer",
  year =       "2012",
  abstract =   "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.",
  pages =      "%pages_from%--%pages_to%",
  month =      may,
  booktitle =  "Eurographics 2012 -- Education Papers",
  event =      "Eurographics 2012",
  location =   "Cagliari, Italy",
  keywords =   "Software Rasterizer, Introductory Computer Graphics,
               Collada, Java, Education",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2012/fink-2012-cg1/",
}