ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - Online Resource

Notes for a University Vulkan Course

wobbe — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:14:41 +0000

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Mike Bailey, Oregon State University

Notes for a Vulkan class that has been taugt since 2018 and has been offered it at SIGGRAPH several times.

Available on-line at http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/vulkan

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Vulkkan Slides - 2pp	7.35 MB

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Fundamentals Seminar

wobbe — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:37:48 +0000

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Mike Bailey, Oregon State University

The essential introduction to computer graphics and the annual SIGGRAPH conference: planning your conference schedule, the graphics process, graphics hardware, modeling, rendering, animation, and how the technology is applied in the real world. The goal of the Fundamentals Seminar is to make SIGGRAPH more understandable and enjoyable, for everyone.

This SIGGRAPH course, originally presented at SIGGRAPH 2014,opens with an introduction of the conference itself. After about 10 minutes an explanation of The Graphics Process starts. It may be a somewhat technical approach to CG, but many basic concepts are explained and is pretty thorough without assuming prior knowledge.

Note: an updated version (2020) can be found here: A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics

This content is available in various formats

ACM Digital Library
- ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Course - https://doi.org/10.1145/2897826.2927319
  - Includes video (slides and audio) and supplemantery materials
YouTube
- 2014 Course, SIGGRAPH University - https://youtu.be/7Hn5qUmL-Q8
  - Slides and Speaker view
  - The Graphic Process starts at 11'24" - https://youtu.be/7Hn5qUmL-Q8?t=684
- ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Course
  - Video from the Digital Library has been posted at https://youtu.be/IFlkbEW3OkY
    - The Graphic Process starts at 8'23" - https://youtu.be/IFlkbEW3OkY?t=503
  - Content was released under CC-BY-NC-ND

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An introduction to physics-based animation

wobbe — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:01:45 +0000

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Adam W. Bargteil, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Tamar Shinar, University of California, Riverside

Physics-based animation has emerged as a core area of computer graphics finding widespread application in the film and video game industries as well as in areas such as virtual surgery, virtual reality, and training simulations. This course introduces students and practitioners to fundamental concepts in physics-based animation, placing an emphasis on breadth of coverage and providing a foundation for pursuing more advanced topics and current research in the area. The course focuses on imparting practical knowledge and intuitive understanding rather than providing detailed derivations of the underlying mathematics. The course is suitable for someone with no background in physics-based animation---the only prerequisites are basic calculus, linear algebra, and introductory physics.

We begin with a simple, and complete, example of a mass-spring system, introducing the principles behind physics-based animation: mathematical modeling and numerical integration. From there, we systematically present the mathematical models commonly used in physics-based animation beginning with Newton's laws of motion and conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. We then describe the underlying physical and mathematical models for animating rigid bodies, soft bodies, and fluids. Then we describe how these continuous models are discretized in space and time, covering Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations, spatial discretizations and interpolation, and explicit and implicit time integration. In the final section, we discuss commonly used constraint formulations and solution methods.

This SIGGRAPH 2019 Course is available in several formats

SIGGRAPH University YouTube Channel
- Split screen Speaker + Slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_WJ-HwalwU
- Slides + Audio - Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjmiV1D_Kw8
- Slides + Audio - Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIxXUpGSizY

ACM Digital Library
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3305366.3328050

Material posted in the ACM Digital Library, and may be under Copyright protection

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Build your own VR system: an introduction to VR displays and cameras for hobbyists and educators

wobbe — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:15:32 +0000

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Gordon Wetzstein, Robert K Konrad, Nitish Padmanaban, and Hayato Ikoma, Stanford University

This comprehensive introduction to VR/AR technology teaches how to build a head-mounted display from scratch. Topics include the graphics pipeline, stereo rendering, lens distortion, head orientation tracking with inertial measurement units, positional tracking, spatial sound, and cinematic VR content creation.

This SIGGRAPH 2017 Course is available in several formats

SIGGRAPH University YouTube Channel (Slides + Audio)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmxfWygzRIU
SIGGRAPH 2017 Recorded Live Stream (YouTube, Split screen Speaker + Slides)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGubP8stHk
ACM Digital Library
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3084873.3084928

Full citation

Gordon Wetzstein, Robert Konrad, Nitish Padmanaban, and Hayato Ikoma. 2017. Build your own VR system: an introduction to VR displays and cameras for hobbyists and educators. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses (SIGGRAPH ’17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 1–786. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3084873.3084928

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VR Quick Start Guide

wobbe — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:18:05 +0000

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Wobbe F. Koning, Monmouth University

As faculty member teaching computer graphics and interactive techniques you may desire, or it may be required of you, to incorporate Virtual Reality (VR) into your curriculum. This page is intended to provide some pointers to get started. It is not comprehensive, a more complete curated list of VR resources is currently in preparation. This guide is intended to offer some direction to faculty members in incorporation the teaching of creating VR experiences into their curriculum. It is not aimed at people who want to use VR as a tool in their teaching of other subjects.

Please note: this is a work in progress. The field is developing rapidly. You can comment, suggest improvements and additions, using this google form

Introduction, Questions

Getting Started

Starter Projects

Here are some projects you can try that give results relatively quickly.

360 degrees stereoscopic video (Coming Soon)

An Immersive Dynamic World
- create 360 degrees stereoscopic render from Maya using the Arnold VR Camera

Essential Reading

Jason Jerald. 2015. The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality. Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, New York, NY, USA.

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Virtual Environments

Academy Software Foundation

wobbe — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:09:16 +0000

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Wobbe F. Koning, ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee

ASWF provides a neutral forum for open source software developers in the motion picture and broader media industries to share resources and collaborate on technologies for image creation, visual effects, animation, and sound.

This foundation describes itself as follows:

The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) is the result of a two-year survey by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) Science and Technology Council into the use of Open Source Software (OSS) across the motion picture industry. The survey found that almost 84% of the industry uses open source software, particularly for animation and visual effects, but challenges including siloed development, managing multiple versions of OSS libraries (versionitis) and varying governance and licensing models need to be addressed in order to ensure a healthy open source community.

Blogpost on the main SIGGRAPH site: What is the Academy Software Foundation?

The foundation can be found here: https://www.aswf.io/

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How To Debug GPU-Based Programs?

wobbe — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 02:08:57 +0000

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Ying Zhu (PI) and G. Scott Owen (Co-PI), Computer Science Department, Georgia State University

This web site contains three comprehensive debugging guides for GPU based programming: OpenGL, WebGL, and OpenCL. The target audience is college students taking 3D graphics programming courses, game programming courses, or heterogeneous computing courses. Novice to intermediate level 3D graphics or GPGPU programmers can benefit from learning GPU debugging techniques. Instructors can use this web site to supplement their regular course materials.

URL: https://sites.google.com/site/debuggpuprograms/

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ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - Online Resource

Notes for a University Vulkan Course

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Fundamentals Seminar

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An introduction to physics-based animation

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Build your own VR system: an introduction to VR displays and cameras for hobbyists and educators

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VR Quick Start Guide

Introduction, Questions

Getting Started

Starter Projects

Essential Reading

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Academy Software Foundation

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How To Debug GPU-Based Programs?

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