Course detail
Computer Science for Architects
FAST-AU05Acad. year: 2014/2015
Introduction to the modern techniques of presentation of architectural design with an emphasis on processing raster graphics, composition and image content, creating photorealistic assembly, guiding principles for the design of printed and online presentations.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Export of rendered image from a 3D modeller and import it into raster graphics editor, completing visualization of the model and montage into real photo.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
2. Individual project, which is entering:
- Creating photomontages with any theme, demonstrating mastery of basic techniques for working with raster graphics.
- A leaflet A4 that contains text and pictorial documentation of the procedure for creating photomontages and should demonstrate that student mastered the main principles for creating presentation documents.
Course curriculum
1. Computer graphics: vector and raster graphics, features of raster graphics, color models, digital raster and vector formats.
2. Global image editing: resize and image resolution, work with color information, images, color schemes, conversion .between color modes, color gamut, color management, color adjustments in the image.
3. Basic principles of raster graphics: work in layers, work with color channels, work with parts of the image (local regulation).
4. Principles of creating montages: a pixel selection and paste it into another image, masking layers.
5. Fundamentals of architectural photography, geometric transformations in painting, working with perspective.
6. Visualization of the model, rendering module, saving rendered image, pasting into photos, animations.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Syllabus
1. Computer graphics: vector and raster graphics, features of raster graphics, color models, digital raster and vector formats.
2. Global image editing: resize and image resolution, work with color information, images, color schemes, conversion .between color modes, color gamut, color management, color adjustments in the image.
3. Basic principles of raster graphics: work in layers, work with color channels, work with parts of the image (local regulation).
4. Principles of creating montages: a pixel selection and paste it into another image, masking layers.
5. Fundamentals of architectural photography, geometric transformations in painting, working with perspective.
6. Visualization of the model, rendering module, saving rendered image, pasting into photos, animations.
Exercise
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Syllabus
2. Global image editing: resize and image resolution, advanced color correction in an image, the color channels, retouching.
3. Working in layers, adjustment layers, text layers, adjustment of the image (local editing).
4. Creating a simple photomontage: tools for pixel selection and pasting into another image, alpha channels, masking of layers.
5. Geometric transformations in the image: a comparison of verticals, distortion, working with perspective, Vanishing Point filter.
6. Export of rendered model from AutoCAD to Photoshop: setting of views to the model in AutoCAD, rendering, inserting rendered model into photography, lighting solutions in the source images, creating shadows in assembly.