UC San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from ...

Foley co-authored the first edition with Andries Van Dam, a professor who co-founded Brown University’s Department of Computer Science. Van Dam was the first to receive the Distinguished Educator ...

Today we begin our discussion of computer graphics. Today we begin our discussion of computer graphics. So we ended last episode with the proliferation of command line (or text) interfaces, which ...

Students in a computer science major enter the dynamic world of technology, studying topics like artificial intelligence, software design and computer graphics. By the time majors complete their ...

Faculty members in the department are actively engaged in research in the areas listed below. There are many opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students to participate in these ...

As humans have come to rely on artificial intelligence to make decisions traditionally performed by bureaucrats and institutions, it is necessary to understand the ways in which various forms of ...

Today we’re going to discuss how 3D graphics are created and rendered for a 2D screen. From polygon count and meshes, to lighting and texturing, there are a lot of considerations in building the 3D ...

Computer scientists impact society through their work in many areas. The advancement of technology has transformed the way and speed with which individuals work, communicate, and exchange information.

On February 19 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, movie lovers got a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the physics-based simulations that ...

New software techniques make lighting in computer-generated images look more realistic for use in video games, extended reality, and scientific visualization tools. Researchers at Dartmouth, in ...