Modern Research in Computer Graphics Spring 2001

Time:

Tuesday 6:00p - 7:15p
Friday 12:00p - 1:15p

Place:

Olsson 228 E

Instructors:

David Brogan Olsson Room 217 dbrogan@cs.virginia.edu Office Phone: 804-982-2211

David Luebke Olsson Room 219 luebke@cs.virginia.edu Office Phone: 804-924-1021

Description:

In this seminar, students will read seminal and modern computer graphics literature.

Papers: 

Dave Luebke's annotated list of interesting SIGGRAPH papers.

Grading:

• Class Participation
• Paper Presentations
• Final Project

Presentations:

1/23/2001	Non-photorealistic Rendering
Rusty Ventura	Painterly rendering for animation. Barbara J. Meier. Siggraph August 4 - 9, 1996, New Orleans, LA USA	PowerPoint
Andrea Rowan	Orientable textures for image-based pen-and-ink illustration. Michael P. Salisbury, Michael T. Wong, John F. Hughes and David H. Salesin. Siggraph, August 3 - 8, 1997, Los Angeles, CA USA	PowerPoint

1/26/2001	Guest Lecture: Perception
Michael Kubovy Psych Dept.	Is there a space-time metric in motion perception?

1/30/2001	Non-photorealistic Rendering
Siddharth Dalal	Image shading taking into account relativistic effects. ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 15, Issue 4 (1996)	PowerPoint MPEGs
Yannick Loitière	Interactive technical illustration. Proceedings of the 1999 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics.	PowerPoint
Yannick Loitière	Image precision silhouette edges. Proceedings of the 1999 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics.	PowerPoint

2/6/2001	Guest Lecture: Retargeting Animation
Michael Gleicher U. Wisconsin	Read any (and all) of Gleicher's papers

2/9/2001	Trees
Yannick Loitière	Synthetic topiary. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Mark James, and Radom�r Mecaronch. Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics July 24 - 29, 1994, Orlando, FL USA.	PowerPoint
Chris Lutz	Computer-generated pen-and-ink illustration of trees. Oliver Deussen and Thomas Strothotte. Proceedings of the on Computer graphics July 23 - 28, 2000, New Orleans, LA USA.	PowerPoint

2/13/2001	Fire and Gas
Brendan Schubert	Depicting Fire and Other Gaseous Pehnomena Using Diffusion Processes. Jos Stam and Eugene Fiume; Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM conference on Computer graphics, 1995, Pages 129 - 136	PowerPoint
Brian Salomon	Modeling the Motion of a Hot, Turbulent Gas. Nick Foster and Dimitris Metaxas; Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics & interactive techniques, 1997, Pages 181 - 188	PowerPoint

2/16/2001	Fire and Stone
Andrea Rowan	Modeling and rendering of weathered stone. Julie Dorsey, Alan Edelman, Henrik Wann Jensen, Justin Legakis and Hans K°hling Pedersen; Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 1999 annual conference on Computer graphics, 1999, Pages 225 - 234	PowerPoint
Brendan Schubert	Interactive simulation of fire in virtual building environments. Richard Bukowski and Carlo S‰quin; Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics & interactive techniques, 1997, Pages 35 - 44	PowerPoint

2/20/2001	Virtual Reality
Siddharth Dalal	Walking-in-place flying, in virtual environments. Martin Usoh, Kevin Arthur, Mary C. Whitton, Rui Bastos, Anthony Steed, Mel Slater and Frederick P. Brooks; Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 1999 annual conference on Computer graphics, 1999, Pages 359 - 364	PowerPoint
Rusty Ventura	Quantifying immersion in virtual reality. Randy Pausch, Dennis Proffitt and George Williams; Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics & interactive techniques, 1997, Pages 13 - 18	PowerPoint

2/27/2001	Spacetime Constraints
David Brogan	Spacetime Constraints. Andrew Witkin and Michael Kass. Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 88), 22 (4), pp. 159-168 (August 1988, Atlanta, Georgia). Edited by John Dill.	MPEG

3/2/2001	Biologically-Based Rendering
Chris Lutz	A Simple Method for Extracting the Natural Beauty of Hair. Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1992). Ken-ichi Anjyo, Yoshiaki Usami and Tsuneya Kurihara.	PowerPoint
Andrea Rowan	Reflection from layered surfaces due to subsurface scattering. Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1993). Pat Hanrahan & Wolfgang Krueger.	PowerPoint

3/20/2001	Raytracing: To Infinity and Beyond
Rusty Ventura	Interactive Ray Tracing. Steven Parker, William Martin, Peter-Pike J. Sloan, Peter Shirley, Brian Smits, Charles Hansen; Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 1999 annual conference on Computer graphics, 1999, Pages 359 - 364	PowerPoint MPEG

3/27/2001	Sims and Simsesque
Brenden Schubert	Particle animation and rendering using data parallel computation . Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1990), 24 (4), pp. 405-413. Karl Sims.	PowerPoint MOV1 MOV2

3/30/2001	Fishics
Siddharth Dalal	Artificial Fishes: Physics, Locomotion, Perception, Beahviour. Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH'94, Orlando, FL, July, 1994, in ACM Computer Graphics Proceedings, 1994	Powerpoint MOV1 MOV2 MOV3 MOV4

4/3/2001	Cross Hatching
Brian Salomon	Real-Time Hatching Emil Praun, Hugues Hoppe, Mathew Webb, Adam Finkelstein. Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH'01, Los Angelos, CA, August, 2001, in ACM Computer Graphics Proceedings, 2001	PPT

4/6/2001	Mesh Parameterizations
Chris Lutz	Consistent Mesh Parameterization Emil Praun, Wim Sweldens, Peter Schroder. Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH'01, Los Angelos, CA, August, 2001, in ACM Computer Graphics Proceedings, 2001	PowerPoint

4/19/2001	Novel Interfaces for the Creation of 3D Graphics
Rusty Ventura	Surface Drawing: Creating Organic 3D Shapes with the Hand and Tangible Tools. Steven Schkolne, Micheal Pruett, Peter Schroeder. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2001, Seattle, WA, April, 2001.	PowerPoint