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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Jan 15, Lecture 1: Introduction & Transformations		Jan 17, Homework 0: OpenGL Warmup	Jan 18, Lecture 2: Mesh Adjacency Data Structures & Mesh Simplification Reading Due: "Progressive Meshes", Hoppe, SIGGRAPH 1996 Reminder: post your comments/questions on Rensselaer LMS by 10am
Jan 21 No Classes	Jan 22, Lecture 3: Curves and Surfaces Reading Due: "Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design", Igarashi et al., SIGGRAPH 1999			Jan 25, Lecture 4: Subdivision Surfaces, part I Reading Due: "Piecewise Smooth Surface Reconstruction", Hoppe et al, SIGGRAPH 1994 Chris's presentation Last day to add courses
	Jan 29, Lecture 5: Subdivision Surfaces, part II Reading Due: "Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation", DeRose, Kass & Truong, SIGGRAPH 1998 Chris's presentation Additional Reference: SIGGRAPH 2000 course notes - Subdivision for Modeling and Animation		Jan 31, Homework 1: Simplification & Subdivision due @ 11:59pm	Feb 1, Lecture 6: Particle Systems, Cloth Simulation Reading Due: "Deformation Constraints in a Mass-Spring Model to Describe Rigid Cloth Behavior", Xavier Provot, 1995.
	Feb 5, Lecture 7: Volumetric Data Structures, Collision Detection Reading Due: "Untangling Cloth, Baraff, Witkin, & Kass, SIGGRAPH 2003.			Feb 8, Lecture 8: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation Reading Due: "Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster & Metaxas, 1996. Steve's presentation Additional Reference: "Numerical Calculation of Time-Dependent Viscous Incompressible Flow of Fluids with Free Surface", Harlow & Welch, Phys. Fluids, Vol. 8, p. 2182, 1965.
	Feb 12, Lecture 9: Inverse Kinematics Reading Due: "Synthesis of Complex Dynamic Character Motion from Simple Animation", Liu & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2002		Feb 14, Homework 2: Cloth & Fluid Simulation due @ 11:59pm	Feb 15, Lecture 10: Rigid Body Dynamics, Deformation, Fracture Reading Due:"Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture" O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999
Feb 18 No Classes	Feb 19 Monday Schedule			Feb 22, Lecture 11: Ray Tracing & Distributed Ray Tracing Reading Due: "An improved illumination model for shaded display" Turner Whitted, 1980. (alternate link) Additional Reference: "Distributed Ray Tracing", Cook, Porter, & Carpenter, SIGGRAPH 1984. Scott's presentation
	Feb 26 Quiz 1			Feb 29, Lecture 12: Local vs. Global Illumination & Radiosity Reading Due: "Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces" Goral et al, SIGGRAPH 1984. (alternate link) Justin's presentation
	Mar 4, Lecture 13: Rendering Equation & Radiosity, part II Reading Due: A Two-Pass Solution to the Rendering Equation: A Synthesis of Ray Tracing and Radiosity Methods, Wallace, Cohen, & Greenberg, SIGGRAPH 1987 (alternate link) Stephen's presentation Additional Reference: The Rendering Equation, Kajiya, SIGGRAPH 1986 (alternate link)		Mar 6, Homework 3: Distributed Ray Tracing & Radiosity due @ 11:59pm	Mar 7, Lecture 14: Shadows Reading Due: Rendering Fake Soft Shadows with Smoothies, Chan & Durand, EGSR 2003 Daniel's presentation Last day to drop courses
Mar 10-14, Spring Break, No Classes
	Mar 18, Lecture 15: Graphics Pipeline Reading Due: Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan SIGGRAPH 2002		Mar 20, Final Project Proposal & Background Research due @ 11:59pm	Mar 21, Lecture 16: Programmable GPUs
	Mar 25, Lecture 17: Monte Carlo Rendering Reading Due: "Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering", Veach & Guibas, SIGGRAPH 95 (alternate link)			Mar 28, Lecture 18: Sampling & Aliasing "Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images", Durand & Dorsey, SIGGRAPH 2002
	Apr 1, Lecture 19: Irradiance Caching, Photon Mapping Reading Due: "Global Illumination using Photon Maps", Henrik Wann Jensen, Rendering Techniques 1996 Dan's presentation	Apr 2 No Classes		Apr 4, Lecture 20: Subsurface Scattering Reading Due: "A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport", Jensen, Marschner, Levoy, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2001
	Apr 8 Quiz 2			Apr 11, Lecture 21: Procedural Modeling Readings Due: choose one "Procedural Modeling of Buildings", Mueller, Wonka, Haegler, Ulmer & Van Gool, SIGGRAPH 2006 "Estimating the Location of a Camera with Respect to a 3D Model", Yang, Becker, & Stewart, 3DIM 2007
	Apr 15, Lecture 22: Texture Synthesis & Other Applications Readings Due: choose one "Face Transfer with Multilinear Models", Vlasic, Brand, Pfister, & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2005 "Real-time Collision Detection for Virtual Surgery" Lombardo, Cani, & Neyret, Computer Animation 1999			Apr 18, Lecture 23: Non-Photorealistic Rendering Readings Due: choose one "Isophote Distance: A Shading Approach to Artistic Stroke Thickness", Goodwin, Vollick, & Hertzmann, NPAR 2007 "Soft Shadow Volumes for Ray Tracing", Laine, Aila, Assarsson, Lehtinen, & Akenine-Moller, SIGGRAPH 2005
	Apr 22, Lecture 24: Final Project Presentations		Apr 24, Final Project Reports due at 11:59pm	Apr 25, Lecture 25: Final Project Presentations
	Apr 29, Lecture 26: Final Project Presentations	Apr 30 Last day of classes
May 5-9, Final Exams, No final for Advanced Computer Graphics