Date

Presenter

Paper

9/17

David L.

View-Dependent Simplification of Arbitrary Polygonal Environments by David Luebke and Carl Erikson (S 97, 209)

9/22

David L.

Hierarchical Image Caching for Accelerated Walkthroughs of Complex Environments by Jonathan Shade et al (S 996, p 75)

9/24

Kevin

Rendering Complex Scenes with Memory-Coherent Ray Tracing by Matt Pharr et all (S 97, p 101).

9/29

David C.

Evolving Virtual Creatures by Karl Sims (S94, p 15).

10/1

Derek

Hierarchical Z-Buffer Visibility by Ned Green, Michael Kass, and Gavin Miller (S93, p 231).

10/6

Carleton

Surface Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics by Michael Garland and Paul Heckbert (S 97, 209).

10/8

Rashmi

Computer-Generated Pen-and-Ink Illustration by Georges Winkenbach and David Salesin (S94, p 91).

10/13

Fall Break

10/15

Field Trip: Antz

10/20

David L.

IRIS Performer: A High Performance Multiprocessing Toolkit for Real-Time 3D Graphics, by John Rolhf and James Helman (S 94, p 381).

10/22

Project proposal meetings

10/27

Derek

Hierarchical View-dependent Structures for Interactive Scene Manipulation, by Normand Briere and Pierre Poulin (S96, p 83).

10/29

David C.

Cellular Texture Generation, by Kurt Fleischer et al. (S95, p 239).

10/30

Kirk Martini

Special event: Patterns of Reconstruction at Pompeii. Talk by Kirk Martini

11/3

Rashmi

The Lumigraph by Steven Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, and Michael Cohen (S96, p 43).

11/5

Carleton

Realistic Modeling and Rendering of Plant Ecosystems by Oliver Deussen et al (S98, p 275).

11/10

Kevin

Metropolis Light Transport by Eric Veach and Leonidas Guibas (S 97, p 65).

11/12

Dale

Interactive Update of Global Illumination Using a Line-Space Hierarchy by George Drettakis and Francois Sillion (S97, p 57).

11/17

???

TBD

11/19

Kirk Martini

Guest Lecture by Kirk Martini of the A-school