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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Jan 24, Lecture 1: Introduction & Transformations		Jan 26, Homework 0: OpenGL Warmup due ASAP (on homework server)	Jan 27, 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 31, 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 2, Homework 1 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Feb 3, Lecture 4: Subdivision Surfaces Readings Due: (pick one) "Piecewise Smooth Surface Reconstruction", Hoppe et al, SIGGRAPH 1994 "Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation", DeRose, Kass & Truong, SIGGRAPH 1998 (alternate link) Last day to add courses
	Feb 7, Lecture 5: Volumetric Data Structures Reading Due: (pick one) "Multidimensional Binary Search Trees Used for Associative Searching", Bentley, Comm of the ACM 1975 "OBB-Tree: A Hierarchical Structure for Rapid Interference Detection", Gottschalk, Lin, Manocha, SIGGRAPH 1996 "Octree Textures", Benson & Davis, SIGGRAPH 2002 "Painting and Rendering Textures on Unparameterized Models", DeBry, Gibbs, Deleon, and Robins, SIGGRAPH 2002		Feb 9, Homework 1: Simplification & Subdivision due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Feb 10, Lecture 6: Particle Systems, Cloth Simulation Reading Due: "Deformation Constraints in a Mass-Spring Model to Describe Rigid Cloth Behavior", Xavier Provot, 1995. Optional Reading: "Untangling Cloth", Baraff, Witkin, & Kass, SIGGRAPH 2003.
	Feb 14, Lecture 7: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation Reading Due: "Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster and Metaxas, 1996		Feb 16, Homework 2 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Feb 17, Lecture 8: Rigid Body Dynamics & Deformation Reading Due (pick one): "Melting and Flowing", Carlson, Mucha, Van Horn, & Turk, Symposium on Computer Animation 2002 "Real-time Large-deformation Substructuring", Barbic & Zhao, SIGGRAPH 2011
Feb 20 No Classes	Feb 21, Lecture 9: Fracture Reading Due: pick one "Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture" O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999 "Nonconvex Rigid Bodies with Stacking" Guendelman, Bridson, & Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2003		Feb 23, Homework 2: 2nd Progress Post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Feb 24, Lecture 10: Inverse Kinematics Reading Due: pick one "Real-Time Hand-Tracking with a Color Glove", Wang & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009 Reading Due: Interactive Manipulation of Rigid Body Simulations SIGGRAPH 2000, Popovic, Seitz, Erdmann, Popovic, & Witkin.
Feb 27, Homework 2: Cloth & Fluid Simulation due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Feb 28, Lecture 11: Ray Tracing & Distributed Ray Tracing Reading Due: (pick one, but read the other before homework 3) "An improved illumination model for shaded display" Turner Whitted, 1980. (alternate link) "Distributed Ray Tracing", Cook, Porter, & Carpenter, SIGGRAPH 1984.			Mar 2 Quiz 1 Practice Problems
	Mar 6, 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 8, Final Project ideas & team forming post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Mar 9, Lecture 13: Rendering Equation & Monte Carlo Rendering Reading Due: "The Rendering Equation", Kajiya, SIGGRAPH 1986 (alternate link)
Mar 12-16, Spring Break, No Classes Mar 18, Last day to drop courses
Mar 19, Homework 3 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Mar 20, 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 23, 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 27,Lecture 16: Subsurface Scattering Reading Due: "Radiance Caching for Participating Media", Jarosz, Donner, Zwicker, & Jensen, 2008	Mar 28, Homework 3: Ray Tracing, Radiosity, & Photon Mapping due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Mar 29, Final Project Proposal & Background Research due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Mar 30, Lecture 17: Graphics Pipeline Reading Due: Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware, Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2002
	Apr 3, Lecture 18: Shadows Reading Due: "Shadow algorithms for computer graphics" Crow, SIGGRAPH 1977 (alternate link) Mark Kilgard's Stencil Buffer Tutorial		Apr 5, Homework 4 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Apr 6, Lecture 19: Programmable GPUs Reading Due: An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction, Chris Wyman, SIGGRAPH 2005 (webpage)
	Apr 10, Lecture 20: Procedural Modeling Reading 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 12, Homework 4: Stencil Buffer & GPU due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Apr 13, Lecture 21: Non-Photorealistic Rendering Reading Due: "Artistic Tessellations by Growing Curves", Li & Mould, NPAR 2011.
	Apr 17, No Classes		Apr 19, Final Project progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Apr 20, Lecture 22: Texture Synthesis Reading Due: "Fragment-based Image Completion", Drori, Cohen-Or, & Yeshurun, SIGGRAPH 2003 Last day to specify pass/no credit
	Apr 24, Lecture 23: Computational Photography Reading Due: (pick one) Environment Matting & Compositing, Zongker et al. SIGGRAPH 1999 Image-Based Modeling and Photo Editing, Oh et al. SIGGRAPH 2001 Photo Tourism: Exploring Photo Collections in 3D, Snavely et al. SIGRAPH 2006 Finding Paths through the World's Photos, Snavely et al, SIGGRAPH 2008			Apr 27 Quiz 2 Practice Problems
	May 1, Final Project Presentations Ian & Matt Kevin Ryan Sheila		May 3, Final Project Reports due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	May 4, Final Project Presentations Maria & Ed Kenny Cameron & Spencer Tyler Brendon & Auston
	May 8, Final Project Presentations Sean & Adam Greg Paul & Dave Colin Rory & Ken Last day of classes			May 11, Final Exams
May 14-17, Final Exams, No final for Advanced Computer Graphics