‘Introduction to interactive computer graphics’

Interactive Introduction to X3D Graphics

Extensible 3D (X3D) graphics is a collection of open-standards that define a system that integrates networkenabled 3D graphics and multimedia. X3D applications are real-time, interactive, animated systems that can run in stand-alone or networked environments. This tutorial will focus on a commonly used subset of the complete functionality that is encoded in XML. X3D has three encodings XML (.x3...

A Short Introduction to Computer Graphics

Computer Vision for Interactive Computer Graphics

Computers looking through a camera at people is a potentially powerful technique to facilitate human-computer interaction. The computer can interpret the userś movements, gestures, and glances. Fundamental visual algorithms include tracking, shape recognition, and motion analysis. We describe several vision algorithms for interactive graphics, and present various vision controlled graphics appl...

In at the Deep End: An Activity-Led Introduction to Creative Computing with Interactive Computer Graphics

Misconceptions about the nature of the computing discipline(s) pose a serious problem to faculties that offer computing degrees, as students enrolling on their programmes come to realise that their expectations are not met by reality. This frequently results in the students’ early disengagement from the subject of their degrees which in turn can lead to excessive ‘wastage’, i.e. reduced retenti...

Interactive Spacetime Reconstruction in Computer Graphics

High-quality dense spatial and/or temporal reconstructions and correspondence maps from camera images, be it optical flow, stereo or scene flow, are an essential prerequisite for a multitude of computer vision and graphics tasks, e.g. scene editing or view interpolation in visual media production. Due to the ill-posed nature of the estimation problem in typical setups (i.e. limited amount of ca...