Last Updated February 22, 2010

General Graphics Questions

1. What is the “3D Rendering Pipeline”? Illustrate your answer with a labelled diagram.
2. Write a short description of the role of each stage of the pipeline
3. Illustrate with diagrams how you would test a spaceship for collisions with a mountainous surface.
4. Describe a suitable collision detection method which would check for 2D collisions between a space craft and the terrain in a game like “Lunar Lander”.
5. What is a SceneGraph?
6. Describe a data structure suitable for representing objects and their spatial relationship in a game.
7. How might an 3D outdoor terrain be represented in a bitmap? How would the terrain be rendered?

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