CSCI B481 "Interactive Graphics" with Unity 3D - Fall 2021
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CSCI-B481 / Fall 2021:

• Project-based course with Unity 3D.
• Every student may choose between written Final Exam and individual Final Project implemented in Unity.
• Choose your own graphics-related topic, to implement in Unity as final project.
• Course home page: https://homes.sice.indiana.edu/classes/fall2021/csci/b481-mitja/
• Prerequisites: CSCI-C212.
  Recommended, but not required, are CSCI-C343, MATH-M301 or M303.
• No previous experience required in Computer Graphics, Unity, C#.
• If you need permission to enroll, contact course instructor or your academic advisor.
• Schedule: CSCI-B481 Fall 2021 listing on IU Registrar's pages

  11:30A-12:45P   TR     IF 4063
  01:10P-02:25P   F      TV 250
  

• graphics application development using Unity:
  • scripting
  • lighting
  • viewing
  • modeling
  • interaction
  • etc.
• programming graphics on the CPU using C#
  and on the GPU using HLSL
• polygon projection pipeline fundamentals
• procedural modeling and animation
• etc.

• 2D and 3D interactive graphics programming
• object and scene modeling (see example below)
• illumination, shading, texturing, bump mapping (see examples below)
• 2D and 3D animation
• Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications
• Ray Tracing and Radiosity
• etc.
• (note: in past years, the course was based on several different platforms than it will be in Fall 2021)

Scene illumination: illumination, texture and bump mapping, and surface animation all implemented by student. Point-light source illumination, separate texture and bump maps, and animation, are all generated procedurally. Additional effects in water wave shader implementing: cube map, light reflection, texture and vertex animation, combined to simulate water waves.

(above shown excerpt from one of the programming assignments)

Another scene illumination: illumination, texture mapping, and terrain generation all implemented by student. Two (tinted) point-light sources, two separate textures; procedurally generated surface model. Additional effect: water surface reflection animation.

(above shown excerpt from one of the programming assignments)

A basic animation example is shown below: implementing a "robot arm" in the Unity IDE, with scene modeling details and C# scripting connections. The left side panel shows the hierarchy of 3D objects (all rectangle-shaped boxes) in this 3D scene. The right side panel shows how each element in the 3D scene is connected to a (Transform) variable, used by the C# script to animate the robot arm.
(above shown excerpt from one of the lab tasks)