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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Jan 16, Lecture 1: Course Overview & Transformations			Jan 19, Lecture 2: Mesh Adjacency Data Structures
	Jan 23, Lecture 3: Mesh Simplification Reading Due: "Progressive Meshes", Hoppe, SIGGRAPH 1996		Jan 25, Homework 1: Transformations & OpenGL Warmup due @ 11:59pm	Jan 26, Lecture 4: Curves and Surfaces
	Jan 30, Lecture 5: 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			Feb 2, Lecture 6: Subdivision Surfaces II Reading Due: "Piecewise Smooth Surface Reconstruction", Hoppe et al, SIGGRAPH 1994 Optional Reading: "Efficient, Fair Interpolation using Catmull-Clark Surfaces", Halstead et al, SIGGRAPH 1993
	Feb 6, Lecture 7: Particle Systems, Cloth Simulation Reading Due: "Deformation Constraints in a Mass-Spring Model to Describe Rigid Cloth Behavior", Xavier Provot, 1995.		Feb 8, Homework 2: Simplification & Subdivision due @ 11:59pm	Feb 9, Lecture 8: Volumetric Data Structures, Collision Detection
	Feb 13, Lecture 9: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation Reading Due: "Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster and Metaxas, 1996. Optional Reading: Harlow & Welch, "Numerical Calculation of Time-Dependent Viscous Incompressible Flow of Fluids with Free Surface," Phys. Fluids, Vol. 8, p. 2182, 1965.			Feb 16, Lecture 10: Inverse Kinematics Reading Discussed: "Synthesis of Complex Dynamic Character Motion from Simple Animation", Liu & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2002
Feb 19 No Classes	Feb 20 Monday Schedule			Feb 23, Lecture 11: Rigid Body Dynamics, Deformation, Fracture Readings Due: "Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture" O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999 "Dynamic Real-Time Deformations using Space Time Adaptive Sampling" Debunne, Desbrun, Cani & Barr, SIGGRAPH 2001
	Feb 27 Quiz 1		Mar 1, Homework 3: Cloth & Fluid Simulation due @ 11:59pm	Mar 2, Lecture 12: Ray Tracing, Distribution Ray Tracing
Mar 5-9, No Classes
	Mar 13, Lecture 13: Local vs. Global Illumination, Radiosity Reading Due: "Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces" Goral et al, SIGGRAPH 1984. (alternate link)			Mar 16, Lecture 14: Rendering Equation & Radiosity II Reading Due: "Shadow Matting and Compositing", Chuang et al., SIGGRAPH 2003
	Mar 20, Lecture 15: Shadows Reading Due: "Deep Shadow Maps", Lokovic & Veach, SIGGRAPH 2000		Mar 22, Homework 4: Distribution Ray Tracing & Radiosity due @ 11:59pm Note: Extra credit due by Mar 27	Mar 23, Lecture 16: Monte Carlo Rendering Reading Due: "Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering", Veach & Guibas, SIGGRAPH 95 (alternate link)
	Mar 27, Lecture 17: Sampling & Aliasing Reading Due: "Statistical Acceleration for Animated Global Illumination", Meyer & Anderson, SIGGRAPH 2006	Mar 28 No Classes		Mar 30, Lecture 18: Irradiance Caching, Photon Mapping Readings Due: "Global Illumination using Photon Maps", Henrik Wann Jensen, "Rendering Techniques '96" "A ray tracing solution for diffuse interreflection", Ward et al., SIGGRAPH 1988 (alternate link)
	Apr 3, Lecture 19: Subsurface Scattering Reading Due: "A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport", Jensen, Marschner, Levoy, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2001		Apr 5, Final Project Proposal & Background Research due @ 11:59pm	Apr 6, Lecture 20: Procedural Modeling Readings Due: Prusinkiewicz et al., "Animation of Plant Development", SIGGRAPH 1993 Legakis et al. "Feature-Based Cellular Texturing for Architectural Models" SIGGRAPH 2001
	Apr 10, Lecture 21: Texture Synthesis Readings Due: Efros & Leung, "Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling", ICCV 1999 "Image Analogies", Hertzmann et al., SIGGRAPH 2001			Apr 13, Lecture 22: Non-Photorealistic Rendering Readings Due: "Interactive Pen-and-Ink Illustration", Salisbury et al. SIGGRAPH 1994 Hoiem, Efros, and Hebert, "Automatic Photo Pop-up", SIGGRAPH 2005 "Making Papercraft Toys From Meshes Using Strip-Based Approximate Unfolding", Mitani & Suzuki, SIGGRAPH 2004
	Apr 17 Quiz 2			Apr 20 lecture cancelled, Office hours 1:30-3pm MRC 309A
	Apr 24, Lecture 24: Final Project Presentations Course evaluations		Apr 26, Final Project Reports due at 11:59pm	Apr 27, Lecture 25: Final Project Presentations
	May 1, Lecture 26: Final Project Presentations	May 2 Last day of classes
May 7-11, Final Exams, No final for CSCI 4972/6963