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PRESENTED BY:

SIMRAN

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Creation, Manipulation, and Storage of

geometric objects (modeling) and their images

(rendering)

Display those images on screens or hardcopy

devices

Image processing

Others: GUI, Displays (VR)...

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Movie Industry Leaders in quality and artistry

Not slaves to conceptual purity

Big budgets and tight schedules

Reminder that there is more toCG than technology

Hey, How'd they do that?

Defines our expectations

Slide information from Leonard McMillian's slideshttp://www.cs.unc.edu/~mcmillan/comp136/Lecture1/compgraf.html

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Game Industry

The newest driving force in CG Why? Volume and Profit

This is why we have commodity GPUs

Focus on interactivity

Cost effective solutions Avoiding computating and other tricks

Games drive the baseline

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Medical Imaging and Scientific Visualization Tools for teaching and diagnosis

No cheating or tricks allowed

New data representations and modalities

Drive issues of precision and correctness Focus on presentation and interpretation of data

Construction of models from acquired data

Nanomanipulator, UNCJoe Kniss, Utah Gordon Kindelman, Utah

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Computer Aided Design Mechanical, Electronic, Architecture,...

Drives the high end of the hardware market

Integration of computing and display resources

Reduced design cyles == faster systems, sooner

ProEngineer, www.ptc.com

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Frame Buffer-Chunk of RAM in w/c the computer

program stores the image in form of pixels

Display Hardware-produces image line by line Video Controller-H/W device that constantly reads

frame buffer and produces image on display

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a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or

scientific applications.

Intended primarily to be used by one person at atime, they are commonly connected to a local area

network and run multi-user operating systems.

The term used to refer to a mainframe computer

terminal or a PC connected to a network. offered higher performance than desktop

computers,

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computer hardware that generates computer graphics

and allows them to be shown on a display,

usually using a graphics card (video card) in

combination with a device driver to create the images

on the screen.

The most important piece of graphics hardware is

the graphics card(piece of equipment that renders out

all images and sends them to a display.)

graphics cards: integrated and dedicated

integrated graphics card: is bound to the motherboard

and shares RAM(Random Access Memory) with

the CPU, reducing the total amount of RAM available.

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A dedicated graphics card :has its own RAM andProcessor for generating its images, and does notslow down the computer.

have higher performance than integrated graphics

cards

It is possible to have both dedicated and integratedgraphics, however once a dedicated graphics card isinstalled, the integrated card will no longer function

until the dedicated card is removed. Parts of a Graphics Card : The GPU or graphics

processing unit, is the unit that allows the graphicscard to function.

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Video Memory is built in RAM installed on thevideo card that provides the graphics card with itsown RAM and allows it to run smoothly withouthaving to take resources from the computer

Display Drivers : A display driver is a piece ofsoftware which allows your graphics hardware tocommunicate with your operating system.

allow your computer to utilize parts of itself, and

without them, the machine would not function. a driver is required to translate between the two, and

convert general commands into specific commands,and vice versa.

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