B.Sc. Computer Technology - Anna University

UNIT IV GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES & INTERACTIVE INPUT METHODS 9
The user Dialogue – Input of Graphical Data – Input Functions – Interactive Picture Construction
Techniques – Virtual Reality Environments – Three Dimensional Object Representation:
polygon surfaces-curved line and surfaces-Quadric surface-super Quadrics - Blobby objects -
Bezier curves and surfaces - constructive solid geometry methods – Octrees - BSP trees.
UNIT V THREE DIMENSIONAL CONCEPTS & APPLICATIONS 9
Three dimensional geometric and modeling transformations - Visible-surface Detection
methods-polygon rendering methods-color models and color applications-computer animation..
TOTAL : 45
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Donald Hearn and Pauline Baker, “Computer Graphics C version”, Pearson Education,
2003.
2. Foley, Vandam, Feiner, Huges, “Computer Graphics: Principles & Practice”, Pearson
Education 2003.
3. Schaum’s Outline of Computer Graphics By Zhigang Xiang and Roy A Plastock , TMH
2000
YCT951 CLIENT SERVER TECHNOLOGY L T P C
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UNIT – I INTRODUCTION 9
Client Server Computing era, Real Client/Server, Fat Servers or fat clients, 2 tier Vs 3 tier,
Intergalactic client server, client server for different models, building blocks
UNIT – II CLIENT/SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS 9
Anatomy of Server programs, Server needs from OS, Server scalability, Client anatomy, Client
needs from OS, Client OS trends , MAC OS, Linux OS, Win OS, Server OS trends , NetWare,
Win 2000 Server, OS/2 warp server
UNIT – III CLIENT SERVER MIDDLEWARE 9
NOS Middleware, global directory services, X.500, LDAP, distributed time services, distributed
security services, RPC messaging and peer to peer , Sockets, NetWare, NetBIOS, remote
procedure call, messaging and queuing, MOM Vs RPC, Evolution of the NOS, DCE , The
enterprise NOS, the internet as NOS
UNIT – IV CLIENT SERVER TRANSACTION PROCESSING 9
ACID Properties, Transaction Models, TP Monitor, TP Monitor and OS, TP Monitor and
Transaction Management, TP Monitor Client/ Server Interaction types, Transactional RPC,
Queues, TP Lite or TP Heavy, TP Lite versus TP Heavy – Managing Heterogeneous networks,
Process Management, client/server invocations, Performance
UNIT – V CLIENT SERVER AND INTERNET 9
Client server and internet, Web client server, 3 tier client server web style, CGI , the server side
of web, CGI and State, SQL database servers, Middleware and federated databases, data
warehouses, EIS/DSS to data mining, GroupWare Server , what is GroupWare, components of
GroupWare
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
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