Schedule
Note that many of the readings are copyrighted; the PDF files here are for the convenience of the students in the class and require a login to access.
| date | topic | reading | reference | hw | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Jan | Intro | slides | notes | ||
| 27 | Jan | Radiometry | Preisendorfer | slides | notes | |
| 1 | Feb | Radiometry | Arvo (Ch. 2) | slides | notes | |
| 3 | Feb | Light Transport in Vacuum | Arvo (Ch. 6) | slides | notes | prob1 |
| 8 | Feb | Light Transport in Vacuum | Kajiya | slides | notes | |
| 10 | Feb | Monte Carlo Review | slides | notes | ||
| 15 | Feb | Monte Carlo Review, etc. | slides | notes | prob2 | |
| 17 | Feb | Light Transport in a Medium | slides | notes | ||
| 22 | Feb | Volume Rendering Equation | slides | notes | ||
| 24 | Feb | Path Tracing | slides | notes | ||
| 1 | Mar | Path Tracing | Reflection | slides | notes | ||
| 3 | Mar | Numerical ODEs | slides | notes | ||
| 8 | Mar | Alvin Law | Jensen & Christensen 98 | slides | notes | |
| Piti Irawan | Chen et al. 04 | slides | notes | |||
| 10 | Mar | Numerical PDEs | slides | notes | ||
| 15 | Mar | Theodore Tang | Hanrahan & Krueger 93 | slides | notes | |
| Jon Kaldor | Premoze et al. 04 | slides | notes | |||
| 17 | Mar | Particle System Dynamics | Goldstein (Ch. 1) | slides | notes | |
| SIGGRAPH 97 course | slides | notes | ||||
| XSpringies applet | slides | notes | ||||
| 23 | Mar | —Spring break— | slides | notes | ||
| 25 | Mar | —Spring break— | slides | notes | ||
| 29 | Mar | Final Project Proposals | slides | notes | ||
| 31 | Mar | Guest Lecture | slides | notes | ||
| 5 | Apr | Nathan Mullenax | Moore & Wilhelms 88 | slides | notes | |
| Jeff Wang | Gottschalk et al. 96 | slides | notes | |||
| 7 | Apr | Fluid Flow | slides | notes | ||
| 12 | Apr | Jeff Budsberg | Provot 95 | slides | notes | |
| Kelvin Cai | Baraff & Witkin 98 | slides | notes | |||
| 14 | Apr | Subsurface Light Diffusion | slides | notes | ||
| 19 | Apr | Alex Liberman | Foster & Metaxas 96 | slides | notes | |
| Andrew Butts | Foster & Fedkiw 01 | slides | notes | |||
| 21 | Apr | Final Project Progress Reports | slides | notes | ||
| 26 | Apr | Jose Guerra | Grinspun et al. 02 | slides | notes | |
| Venkat Krishnaraj | Losasso et al. 04 | slides | notes | |||
| 28 | Apr | Subsurface Light Diffusion | slides | notes | ||
| 3 | May | Victor Wang | Jensen et al. 01 | slides | notes | |
| Mark Rubelmann | Lensch et al. 03 | slides | notes | |||
| 5 | May | Tim Isganitis | Lensch et al. 01 | slides | notes | |
| Theo Chao | Goesele et al. 04 | slides | notes | |||
| 18 | May | Final Project Presentations | slides | notes | ||