Topics

• Students Wanted for Mobile Websurfing Visualization Project

• Class Syllabus, Organization

• Semester Project

• Overview of Graphics Hardware
  • Workstation Graphics ($17K - 250K)
  • PC graphics Hardware ($300) - Nvidia, ATI, 3Dfx
  • Game consoles ($300-800) - PS2, GameCube, X-box

• Review of Graphics Pipeline

• Introduction to Shading & Procedural Techniques

• Intro to Visualization