Rendering Techniques Course Schedule

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Date	Topic	Reading	Homework
Monday, January 27	Introduction, Overview
Wednesday, January 29	Light, Color, and Color Spaces	Watt Chapter 14 (not Watt/Watt) Durrett Chapter 1 FVD Chapter 13	Order Textbooks
Monday, February 3	Illumination Models	FVD 16.1, 16.2, 16.7 Watt/Watt Chapter 2
Wednesday, February 5	Ray Casting	FVD 15.10	Program 1 assigned
Monday, February 10	Ray Tracing	FVD 16.11, 16.12 Watt/Watt Chapter 8  Glassner Chapter 7
Wednesday, February 12	Ray Tracing (cont.)
Monday, February 17	No Class - Snow Day
Wednesday, February 19	Accelerating Ray Tracing	Watt/Watt Chapter 9	Program 1 due (extended to Friday)
Monday, February 24	Image Texture Fundamentals	Watt/Watt 4.7, 6.1, 6.3 FVD 16.3.2	Program 2 assigned
Wednesday, February 26	Procedural Texturing and Shading Handouts	Watt/Watt Chapter 14
Monday, March 3	Procedural Bump Mapping and Noise Handouts	Watt/Watt 6.4, 7.2, 7.3 FVD 20.1.2
Wednesday, March 5	Exam #1
Monday, March 10	No Class - Spring Break
Wednesday, March 12	No Class - Spring Break
Monday, March 17	Procedural Bump Mapping and Noise (cont.)		Program 2 due Program 3 assigned (actually on Tuesday)
Wednesday, March 19	Radiosity	Watt/Watt Chapter 11 FVD 16.11, 16.13
Monday, March 24	Global Illumination	Watt/Watt Chapter 12	Project abstract due
Wednesday, March 26	Volume Rendering  Accelerating Volume Rendering	Watt/Watt Chapter 13 FVD 20.6
Monday, March 31	Image-based Rendering (3D image warping)		Full Project proposal due Program 3 due
Wednesday, April 2	Image-based Rendering (Light Fields)		Program 4 assigned
Monday, April 7	Non-photorealistic Rendering: Pen and Ink Illustration  Painterly Rendering		Project progress report due
Wednesday, April 9	Painterly Rendering (cont.) Parallel Rendering
Monday, April 14	Student Paper Presentations		Project progress report due
Wednesday, April 16	Student Paper Presentations		Program 4 due
Monday, April 21	Student Paper Presentations		Project progress report due
Wednesday, April 23	Student Paper Presentations
Monday, April 28	Exam #2		Project progress report due
Wednesday, April 30
Wednesday, May 14	Project Demonstrations
Thursday, May 15			Project deliverables due