CS 5625
Advanced Interactive Graphics 

Schedule

Computer Science Department, Cornell University

Spring 2013

 

All dates for lectures and unreleased assignments are provisional.

Lectures meet 10:10-11:25 Tuesday and Thursday in TBA.

Lecture Date Topic/notes Readings Assignments, etc.
1 Jan 22 Course overview (BW)    
Shading and Texture Mapping
2 24 Shading Models (BW)    
3 29 Deferred Shading    
4 31 Texture Mapping 1: Displacement, Bump and Normal, Relief    
5 Feb 5 Texture Mapping 2: Environment Mapping    
6 7 Texture Mapping 3: Minification    
7 12 Texture Mapping 4: Aliasing   PA1 due Wed Feb 13, midnight
Pipeline, Hardware, Shading Languages
8 14 Graphics Hardware 1    
9 19 Graphics Hardware 2    
10 21 Shading Languages and Shadows (Shadow Maps)    
Shading and Shadows
11 26 Shadows 1: Shadow Volumes   PA2 due Thu Feb 28, midnight
12 28 Shadows 2: Shadow Aliasing, PCF, Soft Shadows    
13 Mar 5 Shadows 3: Soft Shadows    
Ambient Occlusion and GI
14 7 AO 1    
15 12 AO 2 and fast GI   PA3 due Tue Mar 12, midnight
16 14 Prelim 1 (In Class. 10-11:30.)    
Mar 19-21 Spring Break
Modeling
17 26 Modeling 1    
18 28 Modeling 2   Project Proposal due Sun Mar 31, 8pm
19 Apr 2 Modeling 3    
20 4 Modeling 4    
Acceleration Structure
21 9 Acceleration Structure 1   PA4 due Mon Apr 8, midnight
22 11 Acceleration Structure 2    
High-Quality Rendering
23 16 Rendering 1   PA5 due Wed Apr 17, midnight
24 18 Rendering 2    
Imaging
25 23 Imaging 1   Mid project reviews on Tue/Wed/Thu
26 25 Imaging 2    
27 30 Prelim 2    
28 May 2 Conclusions    


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