BCA Syllabus – Computer Graphics

5.4 Computer Graphics

Third Year          Part III Group A                 Fifth Semester                Subject Code:   

Unit - 1

Application of Computer Graphics – Video display Device – Raster scan systems – random scan systems – Graphics Monitor – Input devices – Hard copy devices – Software – GKS – PHICS.

Unit - 2

Output Primitives:       Points and lines – DDA and Bresenhams line algorithm – circle generating algorithm – Ellipse generating algorithm – Other curves – Pixels addressing – Filled area primitives – Character generator.

Unit - 3

Attributes of output Primitives: Line attributes – Curve attributes – color – levels area – fill attributes – Character attributes – Bundled attributed – In quiry functions – Antialiasing methods.

Unit - 4

Geomentric Transformations: Translation – Rotation – Scaling – Matrix representations and Homogeneous coordinates – Composites Transformation – Reflection and shear.

Unit - 5

The viewing pipeline – Viewing coordinate reference frame - window – to – Viewport coordinate transformation – viewing functions – Clipping functions – Point clipping – line clipping – polygon clipping – curve clipping – text clipping – Exterior clipping.

TEXT BOOK :

Computer Graphics – Donald Hearn and M. Pauline Baker- PHI, Second Edition 1994

Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.1-5.4, 6