CSCI-6962 Advanced Computer Graphics
Course Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
  Aug 30, Lecture 1:
Course Overview
    Sept 2, Lecture 2:
Transformations
Sept 5, Labor Day
No classes
Sept 6, Lecture 3:
Mesh Adjacency Data Structures
  Sept 8, 11:59pm
Assignment 1: OpenGL Warmup due
Sept 9, Lecture 4:
Mesh Simplification, Progressive Meshes

Reading Due: Progressive Meshes, Hoppe, 1996

  Sept 13, Lecture 5:
Curves and Surfaces
    Sept 16, Lecture 6:
Subdivision Surfaces

Reading Due: "Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation", DeRose, Kass & Truong, SIGGRAPH 1998

Additional Reference: SIGGRAPH 2000 course notes - Subdivision for Modeling and Animation

  Sept 20, Lecture 7:
Subdivision Surfaces II

Additional Reading Suggested: "Efficient, fair interpolation using Catmull-Clark surfaces", Halstead, Kass & DeRose, SIGGRAPH 1993

    Sept 23, Lecture 8:
Particle Systems, Mass Spring Systems
Sept 26, 11:59pm
Assignment 2: Simplification and Subdivision Surfaces due
Sept 27, Lecture 9:
Cloth Simulation
    Sept 30, Lecture 10:
Volumetric Data Structures, Collision Detection
  Oct 4, Lecture 11:
Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation
    Oct 7, Lecture 12:
Rigid Body Dynamics, Deformation, Fracture
Oct 10, Columbus Day
No classes
Oct 11, Monday class schedule
No lecture...
  Oct 13, 11:59pm
Assignment 3: Flow Simulation due
Oct 14, Lecture 13:
Ray Tracing
  Oct 18, Quiz 1     Oct 21, Lecture 14:
Local vs. Global Illumination, Radiosity

Reading Due: "Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces", Goral, Torrance, Greenberg, & Battaile, SIGGRAPH 1984

  Oct 25, Lecture 15:
Radiosity, II.
    Oct 28, Lecture 16:
Shadows
Oct 31, 11:59pm
Final Project Proposal due
Nov 1, Lecture 17:
Distribution Ray Tracing
  Nov 3, 11:59pm
Assignment 4: Radiosity due
Nov 4, Lecture 18:
class cancelled
  Nov 8, Lecture 19:
Monte Carlo Rendering
    Nov 11, Lecture 20:
Sampling & Aliasing
  Nov 15, Lecture 21:
Irradiance Caching, Photon Mapping
    Nov 18, Lecture 22:
Subsurface Scattering

Reading Due:
"A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport", Jensen, Marschner, Levoy, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2001

  Nov 22, Quiz 2 Nov 23
No classes
Nov 24, Thanksgiving
No classes
Nov 25
No classes
  Nov 29, Lecture 23:
Procedural Modeling
    Dec 2, Lecture 24:
Texture Synthesis
  Dec 6, Lecture 25:
Additional Topics
  Dec 8, 11:59pm
Final Project Report due
Dec 9, Last Class:
Final Project Presentations

Final Project Reports

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