This paper presents the latest advances and research in Computer Graphics education in a nutshell. It is concerned with topics that were presented at the Education Track of the Eurographics Conference held in Lisbon in 2016. We describe works corresponding to approaches to Computer Graphics education that are unconventional in some way and attempt to tackle unsolved problems and challenges regarding the role of arts in computer graphics education, the role of research‐oriented activities in undergraduate education and the interaction among different areas of Computer Graphics, as well as their application to courses or extra‐curricular activities. We present related works addressing these topics and report experiences, successes and issues in implementing the approaches.

Figure 1: Workflow of our approach. The user supplies an example and a feature map, a periodic pattern is built, particles with bounding polygons defined, a small texture map with textons and the background created. Then non-repetitive textures are synthesized at fragment level, which allows us to texture surfaces at high resolution without GPU memory issues. AbstractWe introduce procedural texture particles, a new texture model at mid-way between procedural textures and example-based texture synthesis. As for example-based texture synthesis, we use an input example to produce similar looking textures. But instead of creating texture images (pixel arrays), our textures are defined in the form of procedural distributions of interchangeable visual elements called particles. As for classical example-based synthesis, our method guarantees a certain visual resemblance with the example, but obtained textures are compact and defined on the entire infinite 2D plane.