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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Jan 26, Lecture 1: Introduction & Transformations		Jan 28, Homework 0: OpenGL Warmup	Jan 29, 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
	Feb 2, Lecture 3: Curves and Surfaces Reading Due: (pick one) "Geometry Images", Gu, Gortler, & Hoppe, SIGGRAPH 2002 "Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design", Igarashi et al., SIGGRAPH 1999			Feb 5, Lecture 4: Subdivision Surfaces, part I Reading Due: "Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation", DeRose, Kass & Truong, SIGGRAPH 1998 (alternate link)
	Feb 9, Lecture 5: Subdivision Surfaces, part II Reading Due: (pick one) "Piecewise Smooth Surface Reconstruction", Hoppe et al, SIGGRAPH 1994 "A Realtime GPU Subdivision Kernel", Shiue, Jones Peters SIGGRAPH 2005		Feb 11, Homework 1: Simplification & Subdivision due @ 11:59pm	Feb 12, Lecture 6: Particle Systems, Cloth Simulation Reading Due: "Deformation Constraints in a Mass-Spring Model to Describe Rigid Cloth Behavior", Xavier Provot, 1995.
Feb 15, No Classes	Feb 16, Wednesday Schedule			Feb 19, Lecture 7: Volumetric Data Structures, Collision Detection Readings Due: (pick one) "Untangling Cloth", Baraff, Witkin, & Kass, SIGGRAPH 2003. "I-COLLIDE: An Interactive and Exact Collision Detection System for Large-scaled Environments", Cohen, Lin, Manocha, and Ponamgi, I3D 1995.
	Feb 23, Lecture 8: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation Reading Due: "Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster and Metaxas, 1996.			Feb 26, Lecture 9: Inverse Kinematics Reading Due: "Real-Time Hand-Tracking with a Color Glove", Wang & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009
Mar 1, Homework 2: Cloth & Fluid Simulation due @ 11:59pm	Mar 2, Lecture 10: Rigid Body Dynamics, Deformation, Fracture Reading Due:"Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture" O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999			Mar 5 Quiz 1 Practice Problems
Mar 8-12, Spring Break, No Classes
	Mar 16, Lecture 11: Ray Tracing & Distributed Ray Tracing Reading Due: (read both) "An improved illumination model for shaded display" Turner Whitted, 1980. (alternate link) "Distributed Ray Tracing", Cook, Porter, & Carpenter, SIGGRAPH 1984.			Mar 19, Lecture 12: Local vs. Global Illumination & Radiosity Reading Due: "Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces" Goral et al, SIGGRAPH 1984. (alternate link)
	Mar 23, Lecture 13: Rendering Equation & Monte Carlo Rendering Reading Due: (pick one) "The Rendering Equation", Kajiya, SIGGRAPH 1986 (alternate link) "A Theoretical Framework for Physically Based Rendering", Lafortune and Willems, Computer Graphics Forum, 1994. (alternate link)		Mar 25, Homework 3: Ray Tracing, Radiosity, & Photon Mapping progress post on LMS (including screenshots) due will be worth 5/20 points (no late days!)	Mar 26, Lecture 14: Irradiance Caching, Photon Mapping Reading Due: (pick one) "Rendering Caustics on Non-Lambertian Surfaces", Henrik Wann Jensen,Graphics Interface 1996. "Global Illumination using Photon Maps", Henrik Wann Jensen, Rendering Techniques 1996
	Mar 30, Lecture 15: Sampling & Aliasing Reading Due: "Two Methods for the Display of High Contrast Images", Tumblin, Hodgins, & Guenter, ACM Trans on Graphics 1999		Apr 1, Homework 3: Ray Tracing, Radiosity, & Photon Mapping (submitted via homework submission server) due @ 11:59pm remaining 15/20 points (usual late day policy)	Apr 2, Lecture 16: Subsurface Scattering Reading Due: "Radiance Caching for Participating Media", Jarosz, Donner, Zwicker, & Jensen, 2008
	Apr 6, Lecture 17: Graphics Pipeline Reading Due: Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware, Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2002		Apr 8, Final Project Proposal & Background Research due @ 11:59pm	Apr 9, Lecture 18: Shadows Reading Due: "Shadow algorithms for computer graphics" Crow, SIGGRAPH 1977 (alternate link)
	Apr 13, Lecture 19: Programmable GPUs Reading Due: An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction, Chris Wyman, SIGGRAPH 2005 (webpage)	No Classes		Apr 16, Lecture 20: Procedural Modeling Readings Due: "An image synthesizer", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 1985 (alternate link) and "Improving Noise", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 2002 or "Procedural Modeling of Buildings", Mueller, Wonka, Haegler, Ulmer & Van Gool, SIGGRAPH 2006
	Apr 20, Lecture 21: Non-Photorealistic Rendering Reading Due: "Artistic Thresholding", Xu, Kaplan, NPAR 2008		Apr 22, Homework 4: Stencil Buffer & GPU due @ 11:59pm	Apr 23, Lecture 22: Texture Synthesis Reading Due: "PatchMatch: A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing", Barnes, Shechtman, Finkelstein, & Goldman, SIGGRAPH 2009
Apr 26, Final Project progress post on LMS due (no late days!)	Apr 27, Lecture 23: Computational Photography Reading Due: (pick one) "Photographing long scenes with multi-viewpoint", Agarwala, Agrawala, Cohen, Salesin, & Szeliski, SIGGRAPH 2006 "Environment Matting and Compositing", Zongker, Werner, Curless, & Salesin, SIGGRAPH 1999			Apr 30 Quiz 2 Practice Problems
	May 4, In-Class Final Project Work			May 7, In-Class Final Project Work
May 10, Final Project Reports due at 11:59pm	May 11, lecture cancelled Last day of classes	May 12, Final Project Presentations 1pm-5pm CII 4040		May 14, Final Exams
May 17-20, Final Exams, No final for Advanced Computer Graphics