Dave Shreiner
Edward Angel
ABSTRACT
Teaching computer graphics has always been a juggling act between teaching fundamental techniques and expressing those techniques through graphics APIs. This talk surveys different teaching options over time, including our techniques expressed in our widely-used textbook. We consider the relevance of teaching graphics APIs given their evolution, and present a proposal for evolving teaching graphics.
Supplemental Material
- Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner. 2020. Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach using WebGL (eighth ed.). Pearson, New York, NY.Google Scholar
- Apple. 2022. Metal Overview. Apple Computer Corporation. https://developer.apple.com/metal/Google Scholar
- James D. Foley and Andries van Dam. 1982. Introduction to Comptuer Graphics(first ed.). Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA.Google Scholar
- GPU for the Web Working Group. 2022. WebGPU. Technical Report. https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/Google Scholar
- Donald Hearn and Pauline M. Baker. 1986. Computer Graphics(first ed.). Prentice Hall, Hoboken, NJ.Google Scholar
- Microsoft. 2021. Direct3D 12 graphics. Microsoft Corporation. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d12/direct3d-12-graphicsGoogle Scholar
- The Vulkan Working Group. 2022. Vulkan Developer Website. The Khronos Group. https://www.vulkan.orgGoogle Scholar
- The WebGL Working Group. 2011. The WebGL 2.0 Specification. The Khronos Group. https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/2.0/Google Scholar
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