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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Jan 25, Lecture 1: Introduction & Transformations		Jan 27, Homework 0: OpenGL Warmup due ASAP (on homework server)	Jan 28, 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 1, 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 3, Homework 1 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Feb 4, Lecture 4: Subdivision Surfaces, part I Reading Due: "Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation", DeRose, Kass & Truong, SIGGRAPH 1998 (alternate link) Last day to add courses
	Feb 8, 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 10, Homework 1: Simplification & Subdivision due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Feb 11, 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, Lecture 7: Volumetric Data Structures, Collision Detection Reading 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 17, Homework 2 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Feb 18, Lecture 8: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation Reading Due: "Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster and Metaxas, 1996
Feb 21 No Classes	Feb 22, Lecture 9: Inverse Kinematics Reading Due: "Real-Time Hand-Tracking with a Color Glove", Wang & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009		Feb 24, Homework 2: Cloth & Fluid Simulation deadline extended...	Feb 25, Lecture 10: Rigid Body Dynamics, Deformation, Fracture Reading Due:"Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture" O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999
Feb 28, Homework 2: Cloth & Fluid Simulation due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Mar 1, 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 4 Quiz 1 Practice Problems
	Mar 8, 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 10, Homework 3 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Mar 11, 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 14-18, Spring Break, No Classes Mar 18, Last day to drop courses
Mar 21, Homework 3 progress post and Final Project ideas & team forming post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Mar 22, 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 24, Homework 3: Ray Tracing, Radiosity, & Photon Mapping due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Mar 25, Lecture 15: Sampling & Aliasing Reading Due: (pick one) "Two Methods for the Display of High Contrast Images", Tumblin, Hodgins, & Guenter, ACM Trans on Graphics 1999 "Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images", Durand & Dorsey, SIGGRAPH 2002
	Mar 29,Lecture 16: Subsurface Scattering Reading Due: "Radiance Caching for Participating Media", Jarosz, Donner, Zwicker, & Jensen, 2008		Mar 31, Final Project Proposal & Background Research due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Apr 1, Lecture 17: Graphics Pipeline Reading Due: Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware, Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2002
	Apr 5, Lecture 18: Shadows Reading Due: "Shadow algorithms for computer graphics" Crow, SIGGRAPH 1977 (alternate link)		Apr 7, Homework 4 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Apr 8, Lecture 19: Programmable GPUs Reading Due: An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction, Chris Wyman, SIGGRAPH 2005 (webpage)
	Apr 12, No classes		Apr 14, Homework 4: Stencil Buffer & GPU due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Apr 15, Lecture 20: Procedural Modeling Reading Due: "An image synthesizer", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 1985 (alternate link) and "Improving Noise", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 2002 or "Parallel White Noise Generation on a GPU via Cryptographic Hash", Tzeng and Wei, I3D 2008
	Apr 19, Lecture 21: Non-Photorealistic Rendering Reading Due: "Towards Artistic Minimal Rendering", Rosin & Lai, NPAR 2010		Apr 21, Final Project progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Apr 22, Lecture 22: Texture Synthesis Reading Due: "Fragment-based Image Completion", Drori, Cohen-Or, & Yeshurun, SIGGRAPH 2003 Last day to specify pass/no credit
	Apr 26, Lecture 23: Computational Photography Reading Due: (pick one) "Coded Rolling Shutter Photography", Gu, Hitomi, Mitsunaga, & Nayar, ICCP 2010			Apr 29 Quiz 2 Practice Problems
	May 3, Final Project Presentations Evan & Jay Mike S. Lore & Mary David Zach & Geoff		May 5, Final Project Reports due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	May 6, Final Project Presentations Griff & Eric Greg Ram & Pat Jason Andrew & Sylvia
	May 10, Final Project Presentations Mike A. & Florian James D. Mark & Justin James Z. Tim & Mel Last day of classes			May 13, Final Exams
May 16-19, Final Exams, No final for Advanced Computer Graphics