Rendering Techniques Course Schedule

Syllabus
Schedule
Project
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
1999 Offering

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All reading materials are available either on reserve at the MSE library reserve desk (follow link to check status) or are available for download in electronic form.
 

Date
Topic
Reading
Homework
Thursday, September 7
Introduction, Overview 
    
Friday, September 8
Light, Color, and Color Spaces 
Watt Chapter 14
(not Watt/Watt)
Durrett Chapter 1
FVD Chapter 13
Order Textbooks 
Thursday, September 14
Illumination Models 
FVD 16.1, 16.2, 16.7
Watt/Watt Chapter 2
 
Friday, September 15
 Ray Casting 
FVD 15.10
Homework 1 assigned 
Thursday, September 21
Ray Tracing 
 FVD 16.11, 16.12
Watt/Watt Chapter 8 
Glassner Chapter 7
 
Friday, September 22
 Accelerating Ray Tracing 
Watt/Watt Chapter 9 
 
Thursday, September 28
 Image Texture Fundamentals 
Watt/Watt 6.1, 6.3
FVD 16.3.2
 
Friday, September 29
 Procedural Texturing and Shading 
Watt/Watt Chapter 14
 
Monday, October 2
non-class day
  
Homework 1 due (5 pm)
Thursday, October 5
 Procedural Bump Mapping and Noise 
CLASS HANDOUTS AVAILABLE
Watt/Watt 6.4, 7.2, 7.3
FVD 20.1.2
 
Friday, October 6
 Radiosity 
 Watt/Watt Chapter 11
FVD 16.11, 16.13
 Homework 2 assigned
Thursday, October 12
Exam #1
 
 
Friday, October 13
 No Class - replace with project meeting later in semester
 
 
Thursday, October 19
 Radiosity (cont.)
Global Illumination 
 Watt/Watt Chapter 12
 
Friday, October 20
 Project Discussion
 
 
Monday, October 23
Homework 2 due (5 pm)
Thursday, October 26
Volume Rendering 
Watt/Watt Chapter 13
FVD 20.6
 
Friday, October 27
Accelerating Volume Rendering 
 
Homework 3 assigned 
Project abstract due
Thursday, November 2
 Image-based Rendering (3D image warping) 
 
 
Friday, November 3
Image-based Rendering (Light Fields) 
Stanford Demo System
 
 
Tuesday, November 7
 Full project proposal due
Thursday, November 9
Non-photorealistic Rendering:
Pen and Ink Illustration 
Painterly Rendering 
 
Homework 3 due
Friday, November 10
Painterly Rendering (cont.)
Non-photorealistic Illumination 
Parallel Rendering 
 
Progress report due
Thursday, November 16
Computer Animation 
Office of the Future 
 
 Paper choices due
Friday, November 17
 No Class - Individual Project Meetings
 
Progress report due
Thursday, November 23
No Class - Thanksgiving
 
 
Friday, November 24
No Class - Thanksgiving
 
  
Thursday, November 30
Exam #2
 
 
Friday, December 1
Student Paper Presentations
Roy Hodgman
Dischler, "A General Model of Animated Shape Perturbation", Graphics Interface '99,  pp. 140-147.
James Susinno
Chiang, Lai, and Chen, "Image Shading with Relativistic Effects," ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol.15, no. 4, October 1996.
 
Progress report due
Thursday, December 7
Student Paper Presentations
Andrew Lin
Lintermann and Deussen, "Interactive Structural and Geometrical Modeling of Plants", IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, vol 19(1), jan/feb 1999.
Mike Fischer
something about watercolor simulation
Shahriar Iravanian
Lischinski, Tampieri and Greenberg, "Combining Hierarchical Radiosity and Discontinuity Meshing", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 93, pp. 199-208.
 
  
Friday, December 8
Last Class
Student Paper Presentations
Donald Scott Smith
Dobashi et al., "A Simple, Efficient Method for Realistic Animation of Clouds," Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000, pp. 19-28.
Jason Corso
E. Catmull and J. Clark, "Recursively generated b-spline surfaces on aribtrary topological meshes,"  Computer Aided Design, 10(6):350-355, 1978.
Jeremy Mullendore
R. Klein, D. Cohen-Or, and T. Huttner, "Incremental view-dependent multiresolution triangulation of terrain, Pacific Graphics, 1997.
 
  
 TBA
 Project Demonstrations
 
  
   
 
 Project deliverables due
   
 
  

November 30, 2000