“A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics” by Bailey
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- A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics
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For a beginner, walking into a SIGGRAPH conference is a very intimidating experience. There is so much to see and so much to do, and everyone seems to be speaking an unfamiliar language and they seem to be ooh’ing and ahh’ing over things that they appreciate but you don’t know how to. This course is for them! Rather than kicking new attendees off the dock and expecting them to swim at SIGGRAPH, the Whirlwind Introduction course’s purpose is to give anyone who wants it a basic background in the concepts and terminology that they need to get more from the different venues in the conference. It is like a “pre-course” in that it is more fundamental than any other introductory activities and should be held before anything else in the conference program. This will be especially important in 2025 because the conference has not been in Vancouver since 2022, plenty of time to produce a large cohort of beginners.
Additional Information:
- How the computer graphics pieces all fit together (10 minutes)
- Modeling (20 minutes)
- Rendering (20 minutes)
- Animation (20 minutes)
- Finding More Information (10 minutes)
- Q&A (10 minutes)
Beginner
Prerequisite: Breathing. (I.e., none)
Topics: Education, Geometry, Rendering
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Additional Info: For a beginner, walking into a SIGGRAPH conference is an intimidating experience. There is much to see and much to do, and everyone seems to be speaking an unfamiliar language where they ooh and ahh over things that they appreciate but you don’t. This course is for them!
