Course Calendar

Jan 26, Lecture 1:
Introduction & Transformations

Jan 29, Lecture 2:
Mesh Adjacency Data Structures & Mesh Simplification

Reading Due:

• "Progressive Meshes", Hoppe, SIGGRAPH 1996

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Feb 2, Lecture 3:
Curves and Surfaces

Reading Due:

• "Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design", Igarashi et al.,SIGGRAPH 1999

Feb 5, 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

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Feb 9, Lecture 5:
Volumetric Data Structures

Reading Due:
(pick one)

• "OBB-Tree: A Hierarchical Structure for Rapid Interference Detection", Gottschalk, Lin, Manocha, SIGGRAPH 1996
or
• "C-Space Tunnel Discovery for Puzzle Path Planning", Zhang, Belfer, Kry, & Voucha, SIGGRAPH 2020

Feb 12, Lecture 6:
Particle Systems & Cloth Simulation

Reading Due (for HW2):

• "Deformation Constraints in a Mass-Spring Model to Describe Rigid Cloth Behavior", Xavier Provot, 1995

And optionally also:

• "Untangling Cloth", Baraff, Witkin, & Kass, SIGGRAPH 2003

Feb 16, Lecture 7:
Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation

Reading Due:
(pick one)

• "Robust Treatment of Collisions, Contact and Friction for Cloth Animation", Bridson, Fedkiw, & Anderson, SIGGRAPH 2002
• "Artistic Simulation of Curly Hair", Iben, Meyer, Petrovic, Soares, Anderson, & Witkin, SCA 2013
• "FoldSketch: Enriching Garments with Physically Reproducible Folds", Li, Sheffer, Grinspun, & Vining, SIGGRAPH 2018.
• "An Implicit Frictional Contact Solver for Adaptive Cloth Simulation", Li, Daviet, Narain, Bertails-Descoubes, Overby, Brown, & Boissieux, SIGGRAPH 2018.

Feb 19, Lecture 8:
Rigid Body Dynamics & Deformation

Reading Due:

• "Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster and Metaxas, 1996

And optionally also:

• "Coupling Water and Smoke to Thin Deformable and Rigid Shells", Guendelman, Selle, Losasso, & Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2005
• "Preserving Geometry and Topology for Fluid Flows with Thin Obstacles and Narrow Gaps", Azevedo, Batty, & Oliveira, SIGGRAPH 2016

Feb 23, Lecture 9:
Fracture & Tetrahedral Models

Reading Due (pick one):

• "Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture", O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999
• "Robust eXtended Finite Elements for Complex Cutting of Deformables", Koschier, Bender, & Thuerey, SIGGRAPH 2017
• "Multi-species simulation of porous sand and water mixtures", Pradhana, Gast, Klar, Fu, Teran, Jiang, and Museth, SIGGRAPH 2017

Feb 26, Lecture 10:
Animation & Inverse Kinematics

Reading Due (pick one):

• "Real-Time Hand-Tracking with a Color Glove", Wang & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009
• "Synthesis of Complex Dynamic Character Motion from Simple Animation", Liu & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2002
• "Artist-Directed Dynamics for 2D Animation", Bai, Kaufman, Liu, & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2016

Mar 2, Lecture 11:
Ray Tracing & Distributed Ray Tracing

Reading Due:

• "An improved illumination model for shaded display", Turner Whitted, 1980
  (alternate link)

Optional Makeup Extra Credit Reading:

• Read & post about any assigned paper or paper mentioned in lecture

Mar 5, Lecture 12:
Local vs. Global Illumination & Radiosity

Reading Due:

• "Distributed Ray Tracing", Cook, Porter, & Carpenter, SIGGRAPH 1984

And optionally also:

• "Measuring and Modeling Anisotropic Reflection", Ward, SIGGRAPH 1992
  (alternate link)

Mar 12, Lecture 13:
More Radiosity

Reading Due:

• "Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces", Goral et al, SIGGRAPH 1984
  (alternate link)

Mar 16, Lecture 14:
Rendering Equation & 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 19, Lecture 15:
Monte Carlo Rendering & Sampling & Aliasing

Reading Due (pick one):

• "Correlated Multi-Jittered Sampling", Kensler, Pixar Technical Memo, 2013
• "Implicit Visibility and Antiradiance for Interactive Global Illumination", Dachsbacher, Stamminger, Drettakis, & Durand, SIGGRAPH 2007

Mar 23, Lecture 16:
Subsurface Scattering

Optional Makeup Extra Credit Reading:

• Read & post about any assigned paper or paper mentioned in lecture

Mar 26, Lecture 17:
Graphics Pipeline

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "The Digital Michelangelo Project: 3D Scanning of Large Statues", Levoy, Pulli, Curless, Rusinkiewicz, koller, Pereira, Ginton, Anderson, Davis, Ginsberg, Shade, and Fulk, SIGGRAPH 2000
• "A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport", Jensen, Marschner, Levoy, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2001
• "Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers" Marschner et al., SIGGRAPH 2003
• "Light Diffusion in Multi-Layered Translucent Materials", Donner & Jensen, SIGGRAPH 2005

Mar 30, Lecture 18:
Shadows

Reading Due:

• "OptiX: A General Purpose Ray Tracing Engine", Parker, Bigler, Dietrich, Friedrich, Hoberock, Luebke, McAllister, McGuire, Morley, Robison, Stitch, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2010

And optionally also:

• "Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware", Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2002

Apr 2, Lecture 19:
Programmable GPUs

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "Rendering Fake Soft Shadows with Smoothies", Chan & Durand, EGSR 2003
• "Deep Opacity Maps", Yuksel and Keyser, EG 2008

Also start looking through tutorial for HW4:

• Mark Kilgard's Stencil Buffer Tutorial

Apr 6, Lecture 20:
Procedural Modeling

Reading Due:

• "An image synthesizer", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 1985
  (alternate link)
AND
• "Improving Noise", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 2002

OR
• "An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction", Chris Wyman, SIGGRAPH 2005

OR
• "Hardware-Accelerated Global Illumination by Image Space Photon Mapping", McGuire & Luebke, HPG 2009

Apr 9, Lecture 21:
Non-Photorealistic Rendering

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "Feature-Based Cellular Texturing for Architectural Models", Legakis, Dorsey,and Gortler, SIGGRAPH 2001
• "A common developmental program can produce diverse leaf shapes", Runions, Tsiantis and Prusinkiewicz, 2017
• "Procedural Modeling of Cities", Parish & Mueller, SIGGRAPH 2001

OR
• choose a paper from http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/

Apr 13, Lecture 22:
Texture Synthesis

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "Painterly rendering with curved brush strokes of multiple sizes", Hertzmann SIGGRAPH 1998
• "Where Do People Draw Lines?", Cole, Golovinskiy, Limpaecher, Barros, Finkelstein, Funkhouser, & Rusinkiewicz, SIGGRAPH 2008
• "Example-Based Brushes for Coherent Stylized Renderings",Zheng, Milliez, Gross, and Sumner, NPAR 2017

Apr 16, Lecture 23:
Computational Photography

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model", Craig W. Reynolds, SIGGRAPH 1987
• "On Demand Solid Texture Synthesis Using Deep 3D Networks",Gutierrez, Rabin, Galerne, and Hurtut, 2019
• "Interactive Digital Photomontage", Agarwala, Dontcheva, Agrawala, Drucker, Colburn, Curless, Salesin, & Cohen SIGGRAPH 2004

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