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.
There is an annotated bibliography here.
| date | topic | reading | reference | hw | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | Jan | Intro | slides | notes | ||
| 26 | Jan | Radiometry | Preisendorfer 1976 | slides | notes | |
| 31 | Jan | Radiometry | slides | notes | prob1 | |
| 2 | Feb | Surface Reflection | Glassner 15.1-6, Cook & Torrance 1981 | slides | notes | |
| 7 | Feb | Surface Reflection | Hanrahan notes | slides | notes | |
| 9 | Feb | Monte Carlo Integration | Feller v.1 IX, Feller v.2 I.1-2,III.1-6 | slides | notes | prob2 |
| 14 | Feb | Monte Carlo Integration | slides | notes | ||
| 16 | Feb | Direct Illumination | Shirley et al. 1996 | slides | notes | |
| 21 | Feb | Direct Illumination | Veach and Guibas 1995 | slides | notes | |
| 23 | Feb | Light Transport in Vacuum | slides | notes | ||
| 28 | Feb | Surface Rendering Equation | Kajiya 1986 | slides | notes | direct |
| 2 | Mar | Path Tracing | slides | notes | ||
| 7 | Mar | Light Transport in a Medium | slides | notes | ||
| 9 | Mar | Volume Rendering Equation | slides | notes | ||
| 14 | Mar | Volume Rendering Equation | slides | notes | ||
| 16 | Mar | Volumetric Path Tracing | slides | notes | ||
| 21 | Mar | —Spring break— | slides | notes | ||
| 23 | Mar | —Spring break— | slides | notes | ||
| 28 | Mar | Brad Mancke | Jensen & Christensen 98 | slides | notes | |
| Justin Wick | Premoze et al. 04 | slides | notes | |||
| 30 | Mar | Volumetric Path Tracing | slides | notes | ||
| 4 | Apr | Volumetric diffusion | slides | notes | ||
| 6 | Apr | Volumetric diffusion | slides | notes | ||
| 11 | Apr | Particle system dynamics | SIGGRAPH 97 course | slides | notes | |
| 13 | Apr | Masato Ikura | Moore & Wilhelms 88 | slides | notes | |
| Yu Tak Ting | Baraff & Witkin 98 | slides | notes | |||
| 18 | Apr | Numerical ODEs | slides | notes | ||
| 20 | Apr | Vikram Nerukar | Foster & Metaxas 96 | slides | notes | |
| Victor Kwok | Provot 95 | slides | notes | |||
| 25 | Apr | Rigid Body Dynamics | slides | notes | ||
| 27 | Apr | Photon Mapping | slides | notes | ||
| 2 | May | Pisut Wisessing | Hanrahan & Krueger 93 | slides | notes | |
| Brendan Rehon | Jensen et al. 01 | slides | notes | |||
| 4 | May | Bidirectional and Metropolis | slides | notes | ||
| 17 | May | Final Project Presentations | slides | notes | ||