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Course Calendar
Note: Lecture and lab topics are tentative and will be updated as the term progresses.
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Thursday |
Friday |
Jan 21
No Classes |
Jan 22, Lecture 1:
Introduction & Transformations |
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Jan 31, Homework 0:
OpenGL Warmup
due ASAP
(on homework server) |
Jan 25, 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
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Jan 29, Lecture 3:
Curves and Surfaces
Reading Due: (pick one)
"How Do Humans Sketch Objects?", Eitz et al., SIGGRAPH 2012
"Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design", Igarashi et al.,
SIGGRAPH 1999
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Jan 31, Homework 1
progress post
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
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Feb 1, Lecture 4:
Subdivision Surfaces
Reading Due: (pick one)
"Piecewise Smooth Surface Reconstruction", Hoppe et al, SIGGRAPH 1994
"Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation",DeRose, Kass & Truong, SIGGRAPH 1998
(alternate link)
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| Feb 4, Last day to add courses |
Feb 5, Lecture 5:
Volumetric Data Structures
Reading Due: (pick one)
"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
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Feb 7, Homework 1:
Simplification & Subdivision
due @ 11:59pm
(on homework server) |
Feb 8, 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.
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Feb 12, Lecture 7:
Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation
Reading Due:"Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster and Metaxas, 1996
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Feb 14,Homework 2
progress post A
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
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Feb 15, Lecture 8:
Rigid Body Dynamics & Deformation
Reading Due(pick one):
Deformable Objects Alive! Coros, Martin, Thomaszewski, Schumacher, & Sumner, SIGGRAPH 2012
"Coupling Water and Smoke to Thin Deformable and Rigid Shells", Guendelman, Selle, Losasso, & Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2005
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Feb 18
No Classes |
Feb 19
Monday schedule,
No lecture
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Feb 21, Homework 2
progress post B
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
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Feb 22, Lecture 9:
Fracture
Reading Due:
"Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture" O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999
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Feb 26, Lecture 10:
Inverse Kinematics
Reading Due: pick one
"Real-Time Hand-Tracking with a Color Glove", Wang & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009
"Energy-based Self-Collision Culling for Arbitrary Deformations", SIGGRAPH 2012, Zheng & James
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Feb 28, Homework 2:
Cloth & Fluid Simulation
due @ 11:59pm
(on homework server) |
Mar 1,
Quiz 1
Practice Problems
(an old quiz, note that we have read some different papers)
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Mar 5, 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.
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Mar 7, Homework 3
progress post A
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
| 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)
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Mar 11 - Mar 15,
Spring Break, No Classes |
Mar 18, Final Project
ideas & team forming post
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS) |
Mar 19, Lecture 13:
Rendering Equation & Monte Carlo Rendering
Reading Due:
"The Rendering Equation", Kajiya, SIGGRAPH 1986
(alternate link)
"A Theoretical Framework for Physically Based Rendering", Lafortune and Willems, Computer Graphics Forum, 1994.
(alternate link)
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Mar 21, Homework 3
progress post B
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
Last day to drop courses
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Mar 26, Lecture 15:
Sampling & Aliasing
Reading Due:
"Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images", Durand & Dorsey, SIGGRAPH 2002
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Mar 28, Homework 3:
Ray Tracing, Radiosity, & Photon Mapping
due @ 11:59pm
(on homework server)
| Mar 29, Lecture 16:
Subsurface Scattering
Reading Due: (pick one)
"A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport", Jensen, Marschner, Levoy, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2001
"Radiance Caching for Participating Media", Jarosz, Donner, Zwicker, & Jensen, 2008
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Apr 2, Lecture 17:
Graphics Pipeline
Reading Due:
One of the subsurface scattering papers from Lecture 16!
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Apr 4, Final Project
Proposal & Background Research
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS) |
Apr 5, Lecture 18:
Shadows
Reading Due:
Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware, Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2002
"Shadow algorithms for computer graphics" Crow, SIGGRAPH 1977
(alternate link)
Mark Kilgard's Stencil Buffer Tutorial
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Apr 9, Lecture 19:
Programmable GPUs
Reading Due:
An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction, Chris Wyman, SIGGRAPH 2005
(webpage)
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Apr 10,
No Classes |
Apr 11, Homework 4
progress post
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS) |
Apr 12, 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
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Apr 16, Lecture 21:
Non-Photorealistic Rendering
Reading Due:
"WYSIWYG NPR: Drawing Strokes Directly on 3D Models" Kalnins, Markosian, Meier, Kowalski, Lee, Davidson, Webb, Hughes, & Finkelstein, SIGGRAPH 2002
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Apr 18, Homework 4:
Stencil Buffer & GPU
due @ 11:59pm
(on homework server) |
Apr 19,
Lecture 22:
Texture Synthesis
Reading Due:
"Fragment-based Image Completion", Drori, Cohen-Or, & Yeshurun, SIGGRAPH 2003
Pass/No Credit deadline
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Apr 23, Lecture 23:
Computational Photography
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Apr 25, Final Project
progress post
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS) |
Apr 26,
Quiz 2
Practice Problems
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Apr 30,
Final Project
Presentations |
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May 2, Final Project Reports
due @ 11:59pm
(on homework server) |
May 3,
Final Project
Presentations |
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May 7,
Final Project
Presentations |
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May 13 - May 17
RPI Final Exams
No Final Exam for Advanced Computer Graphics
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