A Creative First Assignment in the Modern Graphics Pipeline

Fourquet, Elodie; Pentecost, Lillian

A Creative First Assignment in the Modern Graphics Pipeline

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Date

2018

Authors

Fourquet, Elodie
Pentecost, Lillian

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper describes a first assignment in an Introduction to Computer Graphics course taken by undergraduate students at a liberal arts college. The assignment marries the technical challenges found at the lowest level of the modern graphics pipeline with the artistic concerns of reproducing a piece of art. To do so, students extend provided code in WebGL, which includes GLSL shaders and no additional libraries, to reproduce a work of art of their own choosing. This task requires the students to involve themselves simultaneously in the most technical and most artistic aspects of computer graphics. Such an inter-disciplinary approach helps to reach a more diverse audience of computer graphics learners.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:eged.20181006
,
booktitle = {EG 2018 - Education Papers
},
editor = {Post, Frits and Žára, Jirí
},
title = {{A Creative First Assignment in the Modern Graphics Pipeline
}},
author = {Fourquet, Elodie and 
Pentecost, Lillian
},
year = {2018
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1017-4656
},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {10.2312/eged.20181006
}
}