daf@uiuc.edu, daf@illinois.edu
MWF 1103 Siebel, 11h00-11h50
Office hours: MWF after class or 13h00-14h00
Leftover questions from past final exams in homologous courses (in PDF)
The newsgroup for CS419 already exists as class.fa09.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.
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) (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