MCA 303 COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA

MCA – V SEMESTER

MCA 303 COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA

L	T	P	Total	Credits 04
4	0	0	4	Duration of Exam- Three hours

Line Drawing: Geometry and line generation, Vector Generation, Bresenham’s algorithms for line and Circle, Anti Aliasing, Character generation.

Graphic Primitives: Introduction, Display devices, Primitive Operations, Normalized Device Coordinates, Display file – Interpreter, Structure, Algorithms, Display Control, Text, Line style primitive.

Polygons: Representation, Interfacing Algorithms, Filling.

2D Transformations: Scaling, Rotation, Translation, Homogenous coordinates, Coordinate Transformations, Rotation about arbitrary point, Other types of transformations.

Windowing and Clipping: Viewing transformations, Line and Polygon clipping algorithms, Generalized clipping, multiple windowing.

3-D Graphics: Transformations, Rotation about an arbitrary axes, projections ,Hidden surface and line: Back face removal and algorithms, Z- buffers, scan line algorithm, Painters Algorithm, Comparison Techniques, Warnock’s Algorithm, Franklin Algorithm, Illumination, shading algorithms.

Multimedia: Multimedia and Hypermedia, Overview of Multimedia software tools.

Suggested References

1. Steven Harrington: Computer Graphics : A Programmer Approach, TMH, 2^nd Ed, 1990.
2. David F Rogers: Procedural Elements for computer Graphics, TMH, 2^nd Ed, 2003.

1. Foley, Vandam, Feiner, Huges: Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, PEA, 2^nd Ed, 2004.

1. Newman, Sproull: Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, MCG, 2^nd Ed ,1973.
2. Donad Hearn, Pauline Baker: Computer Graphics: ‘C’ Version, PEA, 2^nd Ed, 2004.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, NIT Kurukshetra