CS 419 Advanced computer graphics

Resources

I have found the following books to be helpful

1. "Advanced global illumination," P. Dutre, P. Bekaert, K. Bala, AK Peters, 2003
2. "Physically based rendering," M. Pharr and G. Humphreys, Morgan Kauffman, 2004
3. "Realistic Image Synthesis using Photon Mapping," H.W. Jensen, AK Peters, 2001

It is worth reading the original irradiance caching paper, which is crystal clear. You can find it at the ACM; follow this link.

Aaron Hertzmann wrote a great survey of non-photorealistic rendering: A. Hertzmann, "A Survey of Stroke-Based Rendering", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/Aug 2003, 70-81.

Notes

1. Week 1: Ray Tracing

   Handwritten notes: Basics, Intersection strategies, Sturm sequences and Newton's method

   Slides: Normals, CSG, Intersection speedups.

2. Week 2: Sampling and Aliasing

   Slides

3. Week 3: Distributed Ray Tracing

   Slides

4. Week 4: Local Shading Models

   Slides

5. Week 5+6: Radiosity

   Slides

6. Week 6+7: Stochastic Illumination methods

   Slides

7. Week 8: Procedural Shading and texturing

   Slides

8. Week 9: Image-Based Rendering

   Slides

9. Week 10: Non-Photorealistic Rendering

   Slides

10. Week 10+11: Curves and Surfaces 1

    Slides

11. Week 12: Tensor products and subdivision

    Slides on tensor products

    Slides on subdivision

12. Week 13: Animation

    Slides on general animation, including particle systems

    William T. Reeves, "Particle Systems - A Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects", Computer Graphics 17:3 pp. 359-376, 1983 (SIGGRAPH 83).

13. Week 14: Procedural and Human Animation

    Slides on animation

14. Week 15: Physical Animation

    Slides on animation

Homeworks

1. Ray Tracing

   Set on Week 2 Wed 30 Aug, Due 11 Sep

2. Distributed Ray Tracing

   Set on Week 4 Mon 11 Sep, Due 25 Sep

3. Photon Mapping

   Set on Week 8 Mon 2 Oct, Due 16 Oct