ARUL ANANDAR COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), KARUMATHUR – 625 514

DEPARTMENT OF IT & M
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Class : III IT & M Part : III Core Ele.-2
Semester : VI Semester Hours 60
Subject Code : 15UITE26 Credits 3
0

UNIT –I: A Survey of Computer Graphics: (12

hours) Computer-Aided Design – Presentation Graphics – Computer Art – Entertainment
– Education and Training – Visualization – Image Processing –Graphical User
Interface. Overview of Graphics System: Video Display Devices.
UNIT –II: Output Primitives: (12 hours)
Points and Lines–Line-Drawing algorithms–Loading frame Buffer–Linefunction –
Circle- Generating algorithms – Ellipse-generating algorithms. Attributes of
OutputPrimitives: Line Attributes–Curve attributes–Color and Grayscale Levels–Area-
fillattributes – Character Attributes.
UNIT –III: 2D Geometric Transformations: (12 hours)
Basic Transformations–Matrix Representations–CompositeTransformations – Other
Transformations.2D Viewing: The Viewing Pipeline – Viewing Co-ordinate Reference
Frame – Window-to-Viewport Co-ordinate Transformation - 2D Viewing Functions –
Clipping Operations
–Line, Polygon, Text.
UNIT –IV: 3D Concepts and 3D Object Representations: (12 hours)
3D Display Methods–3D Graphics Packages. 3D Object Representations:Polygon
Surfaces – Curved lines and Surfaces.3D Geometric Modeling and Transformations:
Translation
– Rotation – Scaling – Other Transformations – Composite Transformations
– 3D Transformation functions.
UNIT –V: Visible-Surface Detection Methods : (12 hours)
Back- FaceDetection – Depth-Buffer Method – Scan- Line Method – Depth-
Sorting Method. Color Models And Color Applications: RGB Color Model – YIQ Color
Model – CMY Color Model – HSV Color Model – Conversion between HSV and RGB models
– Color selection and Applications.

Text Book:
1. Donald Hearn, M. Pauline Baker, 2nd edition, “COMPUTER GRAPHICS”,–PHI.
 Unit I : 1.1-1.8,2.1, Unit II :3.1-3.6,4.1-4.5 Unit III 5.1-5.4,6.1-6.8,6.10,
Unit IV: 9.1,9.2,10.1,10.2,11.1-11.6 Unit V : 13.1,13.3,13.5,13.6,15.4-15.8,15.10

Reference Book:
1. Institutional Software Research and Development (ISRD Group), Lucknow, Tata
Mac Graw Hill Edition, New Delhi.
2. J. D. Foley, A. Van Dam, S. K. Feiner, J. F. Hughes. Addison-Wesley, 2nd ed,
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C.
3. Roy A Plostock, Zhigang Xiang., Schaum’s outline of Computer Graphics, Tata
McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001.