CS-419 Production Computer Graphics

Major topics:

Rendering - I

• Basic ray tracing (23 Aug, scanned notes; recent chapter draft on physical models of shading from Forsyth+Ponce, 2E)
• Intermediate ray tracing (25 Aug, and following; gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
  • Exercise
• Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing (3 Sep, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
• Advanced ray tracing (Thin Lenses, 8 Sep, 10 Sep, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
• Area sources; texture maps; specular-diffuse transfer (13 Sep, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
• Rendering by gathering (20 Sep, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
• Coming up with a radiosity solution in a diffuse world (22 Sep, 24 Sep, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
• Progressive radiosity, hierarchical radiosity (27 Sep, 29 Sep, notes above)
• Path tracing radiometry and irradiance caches (29 Sep, 1 Oct, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
• Photon mapping and other approximate global illumination methods (4 Oct, 6 Oct, in slides above)

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

Image processing

• Texture synthesis, Image analogies, hole filling and blurring (6 Oct, 8 Oct, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)

Rendering - II

• Mosaics and Light field rendering (11 Oct, 13 Oct, 15 Oct, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
• Multiple view geometry (18 Oct, 20 Oct, PDF)
• 3D Reconstruction from multiple views

Modelling

• Curves
  • Basic ideas and constructions, centered around curves (25 Oct, PDF)
  • Splines (3 Nov, 5 Nov, PDF)
  • de Boor's algorithm (5 Nov PDF)
  • B-Spline subdivision (8 Nov PDF)
• Tensor product surfaces ( 10 Nov, PDF)
  • Basic ideas and constructions
  • Tensor product B-Spline subdivision and Catmull Clark subdivision (12 Nov, PDF)

Intermezzo

• Some effects of color and light in the natural world, with an emphasis on scattering (22 Nov, PDF)

Animation

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

    Rendering-III

    • Non-photorealistic rendering
      • Basic ideas
    • Non-photorealistic rendering resources
      • A. Hertzmann, "A Survey of Stroke Based Rendering," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2003
      • Doug DeCarlo, Adam Finkelstein, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Anthony Santella, Suggestive contours for conveying shape, SIGGRAPH 2003
        Pages: 848 - 855
      • Georges Winkenbach, David H. Salesin, Rendering parametric surfaces in pen and ink, SIGGRAPH 1996
        Pages: 469 - 476
        
      • A Hertzmann, D Zorin Illustrating smooth surfaces Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000