Tentative Schedule

• Week 1
  • Jan. 10 : Introductions, Topic overview, Project idea
  • Jan. 12 : Whirlwind overview of rendering
  • Jan. 14 : Introduction to HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) characterization
• Week 2
  • Jan. 17 : No class (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
  • Jan. 19 : Introduction to labs
  • Jan. 21 : HSR (Object space algorithm, Image space algorithm, Scanline)
• Week 3
  • Jan. 24 : HSR (Object space algorithm, Image space algorithm, Scanline)(cont)
  • Jan. 26 : IBR (Image Based Rendering)
  • Jan. 28 : Ray tracing on GPU
• Week 4
  • Jan. 31 : HSR (Object space algorithm, Image space algorithm, Scanline)(cont)
  • Feb. 2 : HSR (A-buffer, Layered depth images)
  • Feb. 4 : Basic illumination (Diffuse, Specular), Local illumination
• Week 5
  • Feb. 7 : Cooke-torrence, Blinn, Oren-Nayar illumination models
  • Feb. 9 : Watch a video
  • Feb. 11 : Introduction to texture mapping, bump mapping
• Week 6
  • Feb. 14 : Reflection, Environment mapping, illumination & shadow maps
  • Feb. 16 : Faculty candidate seminar (MSEE239)
  • Feb. 18 : MIP mapping, Summed area tables, Minification / Maxification issues, Texture aliases
• Week 7
  • Feb. 21 : Texture atlases and Lapped Textures
  • Feb. 23 : 3D texturing and uses
  • Feb. 25 : Texture mapping in OpenGL (by K. Riley)
• Week 8
  • Feb. 28 : Introduction to NPR (Non-Photorealistic Rendering)
  • March 2 : NPR (Strokes, Points, Hatching) : Student lecture ( Tim Thirion & Avin Pattath )
  • March 4 : NPR (Silhouettes, Simulating media) : Student lecture ( Nikolai Svakhine & Ross Maciejewski )
• Week 9
  • March 7 : Radiosity, Combining raytracing & radiosity
  • March 9 : Photon mapping, illumination caching : Student lecture ( Yi Mao & Jingshu Huang )
  • March 11 : Probabilistic Paths and Atmospheric scattering : Student lecture ( Kyle McGhee & Leif Delgass )
• Week 10
  • March 14 : No class (Spring break)
  • March 16 : No class (Spring break)
  • March 18 : No class (Spring break)
• Week 11
  • March 21 : Intorduction to 2D procedural texturing (by J. Schpok)
  • March 23 : Noise & Turbulence (Perlin, Kolmogorov) : Student lecture ( Yuyan Song )
  • March 25 : Animation uses of texturing and procedural technique
• Week 12
  • March 28 : Bidirectioinal texture function (BTF)
  • March 30 : Advanced modeling (L-system, particle system, implicit surface etc)
    • Background
    • Foreground
    • Comp
    • Final Film
  • April 1 : Cellular system (Dobashi clouds), Diffusion limited aggregation (DLA), Lattice-Boltzmann
• Week 13
  • April 4 : Sampling
  • April 6 : Sampling,
  • April 8 : No class : Please attend CS Colloquiums
    • Realistic Approximations in Animation and Rendering by Dr. Okan Arikan, University of California, Berkeley
      • Thursday, April 7, 2005 10:30 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. CS111
    • 3D Scanning for "Eternal Egypt" by Holly Rushmeier, Yale University
      • Thursday, April 7, 2005 3:30 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m. MRGN 129
• Week 14
  • April 11 : Project meeting
  • April 13 : Basic Shadow, Shadow buffer
  • April 15 : Shadow volumes, Depth peeling OpenGL
• Week 15
  • April 18 : Simulating water : Student lecture ( Erich Ess )
  • April 20 : Simulating water
  • April 22 : Simulating clouds
• Week 16
  • April 25 : Final presentation 1
    • Tim Thirion & Avin Pattath,
    • Kyle McGhee & Leif Delgass
    • Erich Ess
  • April 27 : Recent illustration techniques
  • April 29 : Final presentation 2
    • Nikolai Svakhine & Ross Maciejewski & Yuyan Song
    • Yi Mao & Jingshu Huang

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