CS-419 Production Computer Graphics

D.A. Forsyth 3310 Soda Hall

daf@uiuc.edu, daf@illinois.edu

MWF 1105 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)

Some practice exam questions, in sketch form (PDF)

MP-1, due 4 Feb 2013.

MP-2, due 25 Feb 2013

MP-3, due 19 Mar 2013.

MP-4, due 10 April 2013.

MP-5, due 24 April 2013.

MP-6, due 8 May 2013.

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 (14 Jan, 16 Jan, 19 Jan; scanned notes; recent chapter draft on physical models of shading from Forsyth+Ponce, 2E)
Intermediate ray tracing (23 Jan and following; gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing (1 Feb and following gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Advanced ray tracing: motion blur, lenses (4 Feb, 6 Feb and following, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Area sources; texture maps; specular-diffuse transfer (8 Feb and following, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Diffuse diffuse transfer and gathering (11, 13 Feb, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Coming up with a radiosity solution in a diffuse world (15 Feb, 18 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 (27 Feb, 1 Mar, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Path tracing with general surfaces, photon mapping, and some scattering (1 Mar, 4 Mar, 6 Mar, gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF)
Color and light in nature, with lots of reference to scattering (8 Mar, 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

Rendering - II - Image Based Rendering

Mosaics and Light field rendering (11 Mar, 13 Mar, 15 Mar, PDF)

Multiple view reconstruction of camera paths (27 Mar, in previous slides)

2 view geometry, epipoles, epipolar lines, and the fundamental matrix (my notes from my drawings; 29 Mar, 1 April)

3D Reconstruction from multiple views (in previous slides; 3 April, 5 April)

Animation

Basic ideas

Basics of animation

Particle systems (extra notes on particle systems 12 April; on potentials 12 April; on Conservation of Energy 15 April)

Ballistic/collision systems

Stretch and squash, secondary motion

L-systems

all in notes (PDF; gzipped tar file of keynote; 8 April; 10 April)

Interpolation (26 April, PDF)

Two big threads in procedural animation (PDF)

Resources

3D Collision Detection - A Survey, P Jimenez, F Thomas, C Torras - Computers & Graphics, 2001,

Image processing

Texture synthesis, Image analogies, hole filling and blurring (17 April, 19 April, 22 April, Two sets of notes: my old notes: gzipped tarfile of keynote, PDF; Zicheng's notes, which you saw in lecture: PDF)