| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Assignments |
| Thursday, 01/17 |
Introduction; 3D object representation |
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| Tuesday, 01/22 |
Mesh data structures; intro to decimation |
Luebke 01 |
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| Thursday, 01/24 |
Mesh simplification |
Hoppe 96, Garland 97, Hoppe 97 |
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| Tuesday, 01/29 |
Mesh signal processing |
Guskov 00 |
Exercise 1 due |
| Thursday, 01/31 |
Subdivision surfaces |
SIGGRAPH 2000 Course Notes |
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| Tuesday, 02/05 |
Spline curves and surfaces |
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| Thursday, 02/07 |
Implicit surfaces |
Bloomenthal 02 |
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| Tuesday, 02/12 |
Solid modeling |
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Assignment 1 due |
| Thursday, 02/14 |
Solid modeling (continued) |
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| Tuesday, 02/19 |
Differential geometry |
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| Thursday, 02/21 |
Procedural modeling |
Fowler 92 |
Exercise 2 due |
| Tuesday, 02/26 |
Radiometry and Light Transport |
Chapter 5 of PBRT, Palmer FAQ |
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| Thursday, 02/28 |
Radiometry and Light Transport (continued) |
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| Tuesday, 03/04 |
No class - spring recess |
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| Thursday, 03/06 |
No class - spring recess |
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| Tuesday, 03/11 |
Global illumination |
Kajiya 86 |
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| Thursday, 03/13 |
Monte Carlo path tracing |
SIGGRAPH 2001 Course Notes |
Assignment 2 due |
| Tuesday, 03/18 |
Monte Carlo path tracing (continued) |
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| Thursday, 03/20 |
Image-based rendering |
Levoy 96, Gortler 96 |
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| Tuesday, 03/25 |
Image-based rendering (continued) |
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| Thursday, 03/27 |
No class |
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Exercise 3 due |
| Tuesday, 04/01 |
Reflectance fields |
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| Thursday, 04/03 |
Managing scene complexity |
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| Tuesday, 04/08 |
HDR imaging |
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| Thursday, 04/10 |
Image mosaics |
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Assignment 3 due |
| Tuesday, 04/15 |
NPR |
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Final project proposals due |
| Thursday, 04/17 |
Kinematics |
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| Tuesday, 04/22 |
Particle systems and passive dynamics |
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| Thursday, 04/24 |
Active dynamics |
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| Tuesday, 04/29 |
Data-driven graphics; course wrapup |
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| Tuesday, 05/06 (2:00-5:00PM in MEC 339) |
Final project presentations |
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Final project write-up |