So I finally managed to complete the undergraduate course slides. I know I wanted to get them completed by the end of December but things didnt really go according to plan.
The slides are available here: http://takinginitiative.net/computer-graphics-course-slides/
These slides cover the entire graphical pipeline from start to finish in detail. They are intended for a modern computer graphics course using the D3D10 API and HLSL. The amount of information contained within the slides is quite significant and to my knowledge there isn’t a single other place online with a more comprhensive coverage of computer graphics theory.
So whats the point of putting up these slides, well they are catering for two types of people:
- Lecturers – if you wish to modernize your undergraduate computer graphics course or are tasked with presenting such course, these slides are a great starting point. Hell, if you want just rip them off completely. 😉
- Hobbyist Graphics Programmers – if you want to learn more about how computer graphics are programmed, GPU architectures or the basics of texturing and lighting.
Anyways, I hope you find the slide useful. This is my last semester as a computer graphics lecturer nd so I figured that there is no point letting all my work go to waste when someone can still get some sort of benefit from them.
Enjoy 😛
Taking Initiative 
Awesome! Clear and concise explanations of the DX pipeline are hard to come by. Thanks 🙂
Really good slides 🙂 and a great blog as well. I’m actually just starting my MSc in comp science at UKZN. Going to be looking at some gaming AI topic. Maybe something in pathfinding or steering behaviour.