CS-419 Production Computer Graphics

D.A. Forsyth 3310 Soda Hall

daf@uiuc.edu, daf@illinois.edu

MWF 1103 Siebel, 10h00-10h50

Office hours: MWF after class or 13h00-14h00

Leftover questions from past final exams in homologous courses (in PDF)

Fall 2010 final exam - notice that questions 2, 3 and 7 are irrelevant (in PDF)

MP-1, due 10 Feb 2012.

MP-2, due 2 Mar 2012.

MP-3, due 26 Mar 2012.

MP-4, due 2 April 2012.

MP-5, due 16 April 2012.

MP-6, due 8 May 2012.

Class Newsgroup

The newsgroup for CS419 already exists as class.fa10.cs419.

https://news.cs.illinois.edu/ has links to some web-based newsreaders as
well as documentation for configuring your newsreader to connect to the
newsgroup server. The instructions/configuration has changed, so if it
was configured prior to this fall, you may need to make some changes to
continue using it.

Major topics:

Rendering - I

Basic ray tracing (18 Jan, 20 Jan; scanned notes; recent chapter draft on physical models of shading from Forsyth+Ponce, 2E)
Intermediate ray tracing (27 Jan and following; gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing (6, 8 Feb, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Advanced ray tracing: motion blur, lenses (10 Feb and following, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Area sources; texture maps; specular-diffuse transfer (16 Feb and following, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Big picture slides (20 Feb, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Diffuse diffuse transfer and gathering (20 Feb, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Coming up with a radiosity solution in a diffuse world (25 Feb, 27 Feb, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF
Progressive radiosity, hierarchical radiosity (29 Feb, notes above)
Path tracing in a diffuse world, irradiance caches, radiometry and the rendering equation (2 Mar, 5 Mar, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Path tracing with general surfaces, photon mapping (7 Mar, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)

Resources for Rendering

Matt Pharr's book, Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation (The Interactive 3d Technology Series) by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys (Hardcover - Aug 18, 2004) (second edition, July 12 2010) (full of example code)

Francois Sillion's book, Radiosity and Global Illumination (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by François X. Sillion and Claude Puech (Hardcover - Jul 1, 1994) (this is hard to get, but should be in the library)

Philip Dutre, Philippe Bekaert, Kavita Bala, Advanced global illumination, AK Peters, 2003

Henrik Wann Jensen, Realistic image synthesis using photon mapping, AK Peters, 2001

Pixie is an open source renderer that is extremely good.

SUNFLOW is an open source global illumination renderer. Don't know how good it is, but always helpful to look at other code

toxic is an open source global illumination renderer. Don't know how good it is, but always helpful to look at other code.

A shootout between renderers

A pathtracer in 99 lines of code

Image processing

Texture synthesis, Image analogies, hole filling and blurring (12 Mar, 14 Mar, 16 Mar, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)

Rendering - II

Mosaics and Light field rendering (26 Mar, 28 Mar, 30 Mar, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
2 view geometry, epipoles, epipolar lines, and the fundamental matrix (my notes from my drawings)
3D Reconstruction from multiple views (in previous slides)
Image relighting (6 April, 9 April, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)

Modelling

Basic Differential Geometry (9 April, 11 April, PDF)
Curves
- Basic ideas and constructions, centered around curves (11 April, 13 April, PDF)
Tensor product surfaces ( 20 April, 23 April, PDF)

Animation

Basic ideas
- Basics of animation
- Particle systems
- Ballistic/collision systems
- Stretch and squash, secondary motion
- L-systems
- all in notes (PDF)
Two big threads in procedural animation (PDF)
Resources
- 3D Collision Detection - A Survey, P Jimenez, F Thomas, C Torras - Computers & Graphics, 2001,