Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality

• Course Code: CAD433
• Semester Hours: 3.0
• Prerequisite Courses: None
• Description

  Virtual reality is a tool for the presentation of massive amounts of complex information to humans without overloading their cognitive capabilities. It is a valuable resource for extending a person’s ability to comprehend, organize, manipulate, and communicate complex information. This course presents virtual reality and computer graphics as tools to assist us in evolving beyond our current cognitive limits in the handling of large-scale engineering design tasks. It also considers ways that these technologies can contribute toward dramatic improvements in meeting the educational challenges of learning in a constantly changing technological society. Specific topics include image sensing and display, computer image processing, perspective transformation, three-dimensional rotation, and the application of chaos theory and fractals to the creation of realistic computer-generated imagery.