Introduction
1.  What is interactive computer graphics?
2.  What is graphical user interfaces (GUI)?
3.  What is virtual reality?
4.  What is OpenGL and shading language?

Viewing in 3D
1.  Parallel projection
2.  Perspective projection
3.  Basic raster graphics algorithms for drawing 3D primitives

Geometric transformations
3D clipping

Visible-surface determination
1.  Z-buffer algorithm
2.  Binary space partition trees (BSP)
3.  Visible-line determination


Illumination and shading
1.  Flat shading
2.  Gouraud shading
3.  Phong shading
4.  Color and vertex normal interpolation

OpenGL Shading Language
Photo-realistic graphics
1.  Recursive ray tracing
2.  Volume rendering: marching cubes method
3.  Radiosity method: progressive refinement approach

Graphics Hardware and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Implementation and practice
1.   Graphics data set
spheres plus checkerboard
a teapot
a hallway of a building
a complete church
a new computer science building under construction 
brain data (X-ray) of computed tomography
2.   How to construct the new building data for 3D graphics?
3.   Other modeling methods and tools


Demonstration and Term Project