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CS 534
Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics
Spring Semester, 2003

#01646        2pm - 3:15 Tue, TH



Instructor
Alon Efrat


alon@cs.arizona.edu
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~alon




HOMEWORKS
hw2, hw3, hw4,


TBA

Textbook : Alan Watt, 3D Computer Graphics , 3rd Ed., Addison-Wesley, 0-201-39855-9.
Other books that may be helpful:

  • Realistic Ray Tracing by Pete Shirley (a UIUC-CS Alum), AK Peters, 1-56881-110-1
  • Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping by Henrik Wann Jensen, AK Peters, 1-56881-147-0.

Grading: 10% per each of six machine problems, 14% for lower exam grade, 26 for better exam grade
Labs: Graphics Lab
Web Resources : here

Material For the exan : here
Cheating: Academic integrity is expected from all students. Cheating will result in a zero.
Syllabus


Week Topic (Chapter/Section) Notes
Project
1/14 Ray Tracing (12)
html pdf ppt Ray Tracing
html pdf ppt Ray Intersection
Algebraic Surface Gallery
1/21 Antialiasing (14) html pdf ppt Antialiasing
MP1 Glassware
1/28 Distributed Ray Tracing (10.6,6.7)
html pdf ppt Distributed Ray Tracing
The Accumulation Buffer
2/4 Local Illumination (7)
html pdf ppt Local Illumination
Reflectance Model Demo
Lewis's "Making shaders more physically plausible" paper and notes pdf
MP2 Depth of Field
2/11 Shading (8)
html pdf ppt Procedural Solid Texturing
html pdf ppt Shaders
html pdf ppt Real-Time Shaders
Blue Moon Rendering Tools
2/18 Global Illumination with Radiosity (11)
html pdf ppt Global Illumination
html pdf ppt Radiosity
html pdf ppt Radiosity Meshing
MP3 Procedural Shading
2/25 Global Illumination with Ray Tracing (10)
html pdf ppt Path Tracing
html pdf ppt Bidirectional Ray Tracing
html pdf ppt Photon Mapping
Radiance
3/4 Image-Based Rendering (16)
html pdf ppt Image Warping
html pdf ppt Data Structures for IBR
The Campamile Movie
MP4 Global Illumination
3/11
Non-Photorealistic Rendering
html pdf ppt Non-Photorealistic Rendering
3/18
Spring Break
3/25 Parametric Surfaces (3)
html pdf ppt Bezier Curves
html pdf ppt NURBS
html pdf ppt Patches
Seidel's "Introduction to Polar Forms" CG&A 13(1)
4/1
Subdivision Surfaces html pdf ppt Subdivision Surfaces
html pdf ppt Catmull-Clark Subdivision
html Applications
4/8 Mesh Processing html pdf ppt Meshing (Bonus: QuadEdge source code)
html pdf ppt Simplification
Notes on Geometry Compression pdf by Rossignac pdf and Taubin pdf

4/15 Implicit Surfaces (2.4) html pdf ppt Implicit Surfaces
html pdf ppt Ray Tracing Implicits
html pdf ppt Polygonization
 MP5 House of Mirrors
4/22 Animation (17)
Witkin's notes and tutorials pdf
Sodaplay
4/29 Catchup Final Exam: TBA

  Creadit: Many thanks to John C. Hart for giving permission to use his materials of his course.