The main goal of the lecture is the familiarizing students with graphical visualization. The stu-dents learn about the principles of 3D scenes generating, transformations of scene objects, planar geometric projections and methods of solid representation as well as the visual reality algo-rithms. The students gain knowledge in geometrical modelling, rendering, aliasing and antialias-ing, visible surface determination, efficient visible-surface and visible-line algorithms and illu-mination models. During the lectures the principles of image manipulation and storage, filtering and image processing, advanced raster graphics architecture, 3D graphics pipeline, multiproces-sing and object-parallel front-end architectures are presented. The lectures include also informa-tion concerning volume rendering, physical based modelling, conventional and computer as-sisted animation and basic information concerning animation languages. Students gain experi-ence in working with commercial 3D scenes creation programs and application of advanced OpenGL library procedures. They familiarize themselves with effective graphical algorithms dedicated to the visualisation of spatial objects and learn about application of multiprocessing and parallel graphical pipelining.

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