CAP 6938 Advanced Graphics, Spring 2003

CL1 0119 TR 4:00-5:15

Instructor: Erik Reinhard
Class schedule courtesy of Peter Shirley

Class Homework

News

(Apr 1, 2003): Postscript ray tracer. This thing is written in postscript and is exactly 800 bytes long. Don't send this to the printer, because it will take forever to print, but view it with a postscript viewer.
(Mar 11, 2003): Tone reproduction slides
(Feb 25, 2003): Depth of field explained by Jason Waltman
(Feb 20, 2003): Perlin noise examples
(Feb 18, 2003): Slides for today's class. (In pdf)
(Jan 30, 2003): Some results with the spheres model using a grid spatial subdivision.
(Jan 30, 2003): If your spheres are in a file called 'spheres', then you can use this model to render them using either a bvh or grid spatial subdivision.
(Jan 26, 2003): C++ code for generating spheres. You also need the vector3d header file.
(Jan 14, 2003): Assignments 'basic ray tracer' and 'basic ray tracer 2' (see Schedule) are now online
(Jan 14, 2003): Kevin Suffern's course notes are now available under Resources

Resources

Book: Peter Shirley, 'Realistic Ray Tracing', AK Peters, 2000, ISBN 1-56881-110-1
Errata for this book
Kevin Suffern's course notes
Ray tracing news (huge numbers of articles)

Course Overview

We will cover all the basics of classic ray tracing including distribution ray tracing. We will not cover physically-based methods. Each Tuesday we will cover a new topic, and each Thursday we will cover details of how to code up the topic of the Tuesday lecture. Programs will be due every Tuesday before class.

Schedule (tentative)

Week	Date	Topic	Program due
1	1/7	overview, viewing, ray-sphere intersection
	1/9	ray-triangle intersection
2	1/14	bounding volume hierarchy
	1/16	bounding volume hierarchy	basic ray tracer
3	1/21	uniform spatial subdivision
	1/23	uniform spatial subdivision	basic ray tracer 2
4	1/28	Solid Textures
	1/30	Image texture mapping	million-primitive test
5	2/4	Grid vs BVH
	2/6	Image texture mapping	grid vs bvh bake-off
6	2/11	Material Models
	2/13	BSP tree	Marble image
7	2/18	Instancing
	2/20		Image texture map
8	2/25	Antialiasing
	2/27		Glass and mirror image
9	3/4	Soft Shadows
	3/6		Surreal instancing image
10	3/11	fuzzy reflection, Depth-of-field, motion blur
	3/13		Antialiased image
	3/18	Spring break
	3/20	Spring break
11	3/25	Photon Mapping
	3/27	Path Tracing	soft shadows
12	4/1	Missed topics
	4/3		fuzzy reflection
13	4/8	Missed topics
	4/10		Depth-of-field, motion blur
14	4/15	Missed topics
	4/17

Evaluation

A-90%+, B-80%+, C-70%+, D-50%+, F-below 50%

Grading will be based on the homework assignments. There will not be a mid-term or a final.