The course is targeted at students with a wide range of backgrounds in Computer Graphics, ranging from students with no previous experience to students with undergraduate courses in Computer Graphics.

SIGGRAPH, the big computer-graphics conference, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week with a Time Tunnel immersive exhibition co-created by Autodesk and UCSB.

Ray tracing has always been the "holy grail" of computer graphics, says Jason Ronald, head of program management for the gaming console Xbox. The technique simulates a three-dimensional image by ...