Graphics Visualisation Techniques PG (7108.6)

Required texts

There is no required Textbook for this unit.

Students unfamiliar with C++ may benefit from a 'teach yourself" c++ book.

IMPORTANT : The first week's lecture slides list a number of useful books. 

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Marked Tutorial 1, Marked Tutorial 2 assessed by demonstration during a tutorial, and do not have a written submission.

The main assignment has both a demonstration and a written submission which should be submitted to Canvas. Main Assignment demonstrations are not optional you must demonstrate assignments where required. It is your responsibility to arrange with the tutor or unit convenor when to demonstrate your assignments if you can not attend on the
prescribed day. (its likley that additional virtual rooms will be scheduled in week 13)

Main Assignments must use GLUT and be a project and code and other files in Visual Studio 2022

The late penalties for MT1 and MT2 assignments vary from those normally applied by the university - specifically some late re-submissions are permitted, see the relevent assignment documentation and moodle page for details.

NOTE1: The lecturer/moderator reserves the right to increase a student's mark for academic merit. This is done rarely but can be done for: consistency, elegance, forum participation or creativity.

NOTE2: If a students behaviour could possibly be interpreted as plagiarism, but there is some doubt they will be advised by the unit convener to modify their behaviour.

NOTE3: If the lecturer feels a student is guilty of deliberate unambigous plagarism, the students details and the palgarism details will be passed to the ADE (Assistant Dean Academic) for assesment. Students are refered the the university policy on plagarism in this case.

NOTE4: If optional work is not submitted the student will receive a grade of 0 for that work.

NOTE5:The unit convenor reserves the right to question students on any of their submitted work for moderation and academic integrity purposes, which may result in an adjustment to the marks awarded for a specific task.

Special assessment requirements

1) In order to pass the unit you must Pass the Quizes part this unit (ie you must get a mark of 25 out of 50 in the Quizzes).

2) In order to pass the unit you must Pass the Main Assignment to pass the unit. (ie you must get 20 out of 40 marks for the main assignment)

3) In order to pass the unit you your total marks must be a Pass to pass the unit. (ie you must get 50 out of 100 on offer marks in total)

If you fail for reason 1 or reason 2 above you will receive an NX Fail result regardless of your total marks.

Supplementary assessment

Supplementary assessment is not offered in this unit unless required by the relevant university policy.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

 Lectures: 24 hours

Tutorials: 24 hours

Marked tutorial 1: 4 hours

Marked tutorial 2: 6 hours

Assignment : 20 hours

Quiz preparation: 10 hours

Tutorials (unsupervised): 15 hours

Reading: 10 hours

Homework 24 hours

Quizzes: 13 hours (including prepartion time)

Total 150 hours

Participation requirements

Demonstrations are not optional – you can't submit just to canvas; you must demonstrate your assignment in person (or virtual person).  

Your participation in both class and online activities will enhance your understanding of the unit content and therefore the quality of your assessment responses. Lack of participation may result in your inability to satisfactorily pass assessment items.

Required IT skills

Students are assumed to be:

• Generally computer literate;
• Comfortable compiling and executing a program in a 3rd generation object oriented language such as java, c++ or c#.

  This unit involves online meetings in real time using the Virtual Room in your UCLearn teaching site. The Virtual Room allows you to communicate in real time with your lecturer and other students. To participate verbally, rather than just typing, you will need a microphone. For best audio quality we recommend a microphone and speaker headset. For more information and to test your computer, go to the Virtual Room in your UCLearn site and 'Join Course Room'. This will trigger a tutorial to help familiarise you with the functionality of the virtual room.

Work placement, internships or practicums

None

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