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 …

With this article we are starting a series of publications, “Parallel Programming for the Little Ones.” The project’s expected audience: schoolchildren, as well as students who are beginning to study parallel programming.

The advantage of a multithreaded application over a sequential one is that several threads do the same …