What 3D graphics API will be used?
XNA Game Studio 3.1 (aka XNA 3.1) with C# is the API required for 2 of the 3 class assignments. XNA 4.0 will not be used . If you know Java, C# is very (VERY) similar — don’t worry. The third assignment is proposed by students and is hopefully related to their interests in the field. Graduate students considering a MS topic in graphics could do preliminary research towards their project and/or proposal. The third topic can be a tutorial on a graphics algorithms or topic, or a research paper. It does not have to be another programming assignment. XNA will be contrasted with OpenGL.