Teaching the basics of computer graphics in virtual reality

B Heinemann, S Görzen, U Schroeder - Computers & Graphics, 2023 - Elsevier
New technology such as virtual reality can help computer graphics education, for example,
by providing the opportunity to illustrate challenging 3D procedures. RePiX VR is a virtual …

Virtual ray tracer

WAV de la Houssaye, CS van Wezel… - Eurographics 2022 …, 2022 - research.rug.nl
Ray tracing is one of the more complicated techniques commonly taught in (introductory)
Computer Graphics courses. Visualizations can help with understanding complex ray paths …

A survey of real-time rendering on Web3D application

G Yu, C Liu, T Fang, J Jia, E Lin, Y He, S Fu… - Virtual Reality & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background In recent years, with the rapid development of mobile Internet and Web3D
technologies, a large number of web-based online 3D visualization applications have …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual ray tracer 2.0

CS van Wezel, WAV de la Houssaije, S Frey… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Building on our original Virtual Ray Tracer tool, we present Virtual Ray Tracer 2.0, an
interactive and gamified application that allows students/users to view and explore the ray …

[PDF][PDF] RePiX VR-learning environment for the rendering pipeline in virtual reality

B Heinemann, S Görzen, U Schroeder… - Bourdin, J.-J.; …, 2022 - diglib.eg.org
Virtual reality can be used to support computer graphics teaching, eg by offering the chance
to illustrate 3D processes that are difficult to convey. This paper describes the development …

Project Elements: A computational entity-component-system in a scene-graph pythonic framework, for a neural, geometric computer graphics curriculum

G Papagiannakis, M Kamarianakis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present the Elements project, a lightweight, open-source, computational science and
computer graphics (CG) framework, tailored for educational needs, that offers, for the first …

Improving Ray Tracing Understanding With Immersive Environments

NV Trindade, L Custódio, A Ferreira… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ray tracing is a computer graphics technique used to produce realistic visuals by physically
simulating the behavior of light. Although this technique can be described straightforwardly …

Remote teaching advanced rendering topics using the rayground platform

AA Vasilakis, G Papaioannou, N Vitsas… - IEEE Computer …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rayground is a novel online framework for fast prototyping and interactive demonstration of
ray tracing algorithms. It aims to set the ground for the online development of ray-traced …

[HTML][HTML] Experiencing GPU path tracing in online courses

M Ohkawara, H Saito, I Fujishiro - Graphics and Visual Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
In consideration of interdependency between image sensing/recognition (computer vision,
CV) and 3D image synthesis (computer graphics, CG) in visual computing, Keio University …

Gamification of virtual ray tracer

PJ Blok - 2022 - fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl
A ray tracing visualization application was made by C. van Wezel and WA Verschoore de la
Houssaije in their bachelor's theses in 2022. The application aims to help (Computer …