IT-601 RGPV B.Tech
Computer Graphics & Multimedia (CGM)
Previous year papers and the official syllabus are free to read, no account needed.
Previous Year Papers
3 papers, latest Jun 2025
Syllabus, notes and important questions for IT-601
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Display and Input Devices 20 topics
- Raster scan displays
- Storage tube displays
- Refreshing
- Flickering
- Interlacing
- Colour monitors
- Display processor resolution
- Dot matrix printers
- Inkjet laser printers
- Keyboard operation
- Mouse
- Scanner
- Digitizing camera
- Track ball
- Tablet
- Joysticks
- Graphical input techniques
- Positioning techniques
- Rubber‑band techniques
- Dragging
Unit 2 Scan Conversion and Curve Drawing 13 topics
- Scan conversion techniques
- Image representation
- Line drawing
- Simple DDA algorithm
- Bresenham’s line algorithm
- Circle drawing
- General circle method
- Symmetric DDA
- Bresenham’s circle algorithm
- Curves
- Parametric function
- Bezier method
- B‑spline method
Unit 3 Geometric Transformations and Projection 23 topics
- 2D and 3D coordinate systems
- Translation
- Rotation
- Scaling
- Reflection
- Inverse transformation
- Composite transformation
- World coordinate system
- Screen coordinate system
- Parallel projection
- Perspective projection
- Representation of 3D objects on a 2D screen
- Point clipping
- Line clipping algorithms
- Polygon clipping algorithms
- Hidden surface elimination (introduction)
- Basic illumination model
- Diffuse reflection
- Specular reflection
- Phong shading
- Gouraud shading
- Ray tracing
- Color models: RGB, YIQ, CMY, HSV
Unit 4 Multimedia System Architecture 13 topics
- Multimedia components and applications
- Multimedia system architecture
- Evolving multimedia technologies
- Defining objects for multimedia systems
- Multimedia data interface standards
- Multimedia databases
- Multimedia hardware
- SCSI interface
- IDE interface
- MCI interface
- Multimedia tools
- Presentation tools
- Authoring tools
Unit 5 Multimedia Compression and Formats 13 topics
- Compression and decompression techniques
- Multimedia data and file‑format standards
- TIFF format
- MIDI format
- JPEG format
- DIB format
- MPEG format
- RTF format
- Multimedia I/O technologies
- Digital voice and audio
- Video image and animation
- Full‑motion video
- Storage and retrieval technologies
Exam insights
Counted from 3 past IT-601 papers.
Marks asked per paper, by unit
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Unit 1 Introduction to Raster scan displays 12 marks
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Unit 2 Scan conversion techniques 21 marks
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Unit 3 2D & 3D Co-ordinate system 47 marks
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Unit 4 Introduction to multimedia components applications 19 marks
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Unit 5 Compression & Decompression 14 marks
Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.
Asked again and again
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Explain the Bresenham's / Midpoint circle drawing algorithm with example, including drawing a circle of radius 5 about the origin.
Asked 4 times: 2025, 2024, 2020
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Differentiate between parallel and perspective projections.
Asked 2 times: 2025, 2024
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Explain different data compression techniques, comparing and contrasting lossy and lossless compression.
Asked 2 times: 2025, 2024