| Date |
Lecture |
Handouts/Readings |
| January 4 |
Overview, realistic image synthesis [slides] |
Class syllabus A Framework for Realistic Image Synthesis, D. Greenberg, CACM, 1998. [pdf] |
| January 6 |
Basic raytracing, OptiX [OptiX lecture slides] |
An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display, Turner Whitted, Communications of ACM, June 1980. [pdf] |
| January 11 |
Ray-object intersection |
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| January 13 |
Bounding Volume Hierarchies, Radiometry |
The Rendering Equation, J. Kajiya, SIGGRAPH '96. [pdf] |
| January 18 |
Lighting, diffuse and specular surfaces, dielectric surfaces, polished surfaces |
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| January 20 |
Aliasing, sampling and reconstruction Supersampling, sampling patterns, etc. |
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| January 25 |
Adaptive sampling, stratified sampling, importance sampling Distribution ray tracing (soft shadows, motion blur, fuzzy reflection) |
Distributed Ray Tracing, Robert Cook, Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter,
SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings, pages 137--145. [pdf] |
| January 27 |
Distribution ray tracing (depth of field, thin lens model)
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| Feburay 1 |
Radiosity I |
The Hemi-Cube: A Radiosity Solution for Complex Environments,
Michael Cohen, et al., SIGGRAPH '85 Proceedings, pages 31-40 A Rapid Hierarchical Radiosity Algorithm, Pat Hanrahan, et al., in SIGGRAPH '91 Proceedings, pp. 197-206. |
| February 3 |
Radiosity II |
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| February 8 |
Photon mapping I |
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| February 10 |
Photon mapping II |
Global Illumination using Photon Maps, Henrik Jensen, 7th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, pp. 21-30, 1996 Photon Mapping SIGGRAPH coures notes |
| February 15 |
Research paper presentations Iuri Prilepov: Stochastic Progressive Photo Mapping Yuzuru Tanahashi: Ray Tracing NPR-Style Feature Lines Kevin Bensema: Coherent Ray Tracing via Stream Filtering |
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| February 17 |
Research paper presentations Chun-Fu Wang: A Simple, Efficient Method for Realistic Animation of Clouds Bob Miller: An Efficient GPU-based Approach for Interactive Global Illumiation Garrett Aldrid: Local Ambient Occlusion in Direct Volume Rendering |
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| February 24 |
Meeting with KLM 12-5pm in 2121 Kemper to discuss your final project plan. Final project proposal due in class. Research paper presentations: Jinrong Xie: Simulating Multiple Scattering in Hair Using a Photon Mapping Approach Yubo Zhang: Precomputed radiance transfer for real-time rendering in dynamic, low-frequency lighting environments Xin Sun |
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| March 1 |
Midterm Exam (80 minutes) | |
| March 3 |
Guest lecture by Nelson Max. Topic to be announced. |
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| March 8 |
Final project presenations: Luri, Yuzuru, Kevin, Yubo |
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| March 10 |
Final project presenations: Bob, Garrett, Jinrong, Xin, Chun-Fu |
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| March 17 |
Final project demo and report due |