On Wednesday (05/27/09), Sergey Mikhtonyuk will give a lecture on computer graphics. The program includes:

1. Graphic primitives

2. Transformations: Projection / World / View

3. Matrices

4. Z-Buffer & Stencil buffer

5. Lightning: Flat (Gouraud / Phong shading), Directional (point / spot lights)

6. Textures: Texture coordinates, Mip-mapping, Sampling, Cubic textures

7. Lighting models: Diffuse / Ambient / Specular

8. Shaders: Vertex …

Since April, another Intel parallel programming contest has been under way. This year participants are invited to solve 12 problems in two stages. The first stage began on April 6 and will end on July 3, and the second stage will begin on August 17 and end on November 13 …