Helicopters are crucial in today’s life. A vast amount of applications prove their range, which are not coverable by other types of aircraft. But they are very complex systems, both, technically and physically. This is one of the reasons why pilot training for helicopters is quite challenging. In the last two decades flight simulators became a supplementary instrument in the educational process of pilots. With flight simulators it is possible to replay uncommon or dangerous situations. In this thesis a simple flight simulator for helicopters will be developed based on rigid body physics. The foundation is a simplified rotor model which omits complex fluid dynamics. This helps to keep the implementation simple and illustrative as well as provide simulation rates at real-time. The modules are implemented within the Unreal Engine in such way, that changing helicopter characteristics is very easy.

In no other field of computer science has the hardware been evolved more quickly than in computer graphics. Therefore the GPU offers, aside from the pure rendering of triangles, a bunch of further pipeline steps that allows visualisation of other graphics objects, like freeform surfaces. This bachelor’s thesis is about the rendering of freeform surfaces, in particular bezier surfaces. For that reason an implementation for management and visualisation of bézier surfaces was created for the rendering framework of the university Koblenz (CVK). For this purpose first a triangulation was implemented and finally a tesselation of bezier surfaces with normals and texture coordinates, as well as the handling of trim curves.

In this bachelor thesis a code for astrophysical self-gravitating fluid simulation is developed. The code runs mainly on the GPU. Minimal simplifications of the physical model and some parameters for accuracy and tuning allow simulations to be performed at interactive framerates on most modern consumer grade computers that feature a dedicated graphics card. It is used to simulate the birth of stars from a turbulent molecular cloud. Multiple features of star formation, like accretion discs and fragmentation, can be observed in the simulation, even when low particle counts are used.

The following work describes the prototypical conception and development of the stat-raising game "Adventurer's Guild" using the game engine Ren'Py. The game's narrative is influenced by player decisions and the planning of activities. The game is to be visually pleasing and enjoyable. After giving an overview of stat-raising as a genre, the existing games "Dandelion - Wishes Brought to You", "Pastry Lovers", "Long Live the Queen" and "Magical Diary" are analysed to pinpoint various strengths and weaknesses of their different takes on the genre. The resultant findings are used for the conception of a new stat-raising game. The game mechanics and the design decisions made are then shown in screenshots and thoroughly explained. In a final assessment, the game will be examined with regard to the given task. Further possibilities for potential improvements and expansions will be detailed at the end.

Volumetric lighting is a common lighting phenomena in nature and carries an important role in the realistic appearance of computergenerated images. This thesis explains the physical background of this phenomena and lists common modells for visualising volumetric lighting in Computergraphics. Following this, this thesis compares three methods for visualising volumetric lighting with modern graphics hardware and compares these according to their abilities, restrictions and performance in an OpenGL implementation.