Course Calendar

Jan 7, Lecture 1:
Introduction & Transformations

Jan 10, Lecture 2:
Mesh Adjacency Data Structures & Mesh Simplification

Reading Due:

• "Progressive Meshes", Hoppe, SIGGRAPH 1996

Reminder: Post your comments/questions on the Discussion Forum by 10am

 2021 Lecture 2

Jan 14, Lecture 3:
Curves and Surfaces

Reading Due:

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

Jan 17, 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

Jan 21, Lecture 5:
Volumetric Data Structures

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "Multidimensional Binary Search Trees Used for Associative Searching", Bentley, Communications of the ACM, 1975
• "OBB-Tree: A Hierarchical Structure for Rapid Interference Detection", Gottschalk, Lin, Manocha, SIGGRAPH 1996
• "Visibility Preprocessing For Interactive Walkthroughs", Teller & Sequin, SIGGRAPH 1991

Jan 24, Lecture 6:
Particle Systems & Cloth Simulation

Reading Due:

• "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

Jan 28, Lecture 7:
Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "Large Steps in Cloth Simulation", Baraff & Witkin, SIGGRAPH 1998
• "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

Jan 31, 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 4, 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 7, 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

Feb 11, Lecture 11:
Ray Tracing & Distributed Ray Tracing

Reading Due:

• "An improved illumination model for shaded display", Turner Whitted, 1980
  (alternate link)
• Blog post with color plates & video

Feb 21, 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)

Feb 25, Lecture 13:
Radiosity & Rendering Equation

Reading Due:

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

Feb 28, 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 11, Lecture 15:
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
• "Recognition of Surface Reflectance Properties from a Single Image under Unknown Real-World Illumination", Dror, Adelson, & Willsky, 2001.

Mar 14, Lecture 16:
Subsurface Scattering

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport", Jensen, Marschner, Levoy, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2001
• "Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers" Marschner et al., SIGGRAPH 2003

And everyone should also read:

• "Countering Racial Bias in Computer Graphics Research" Kim et al., SIGGRAPH 2022
• "More than Killmonger Locs - a style guide to Black Hair (in computer graphics)", A.M.Darke, 2024

Optional Reading:

• "Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair", Wu, Shi, Darke, & Kim, Siggraph Asia 2024

Last day to withdraw from courses

Mar 18, Lecture 17:
Graphics Pipeline

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "The Reyes Image Rendering Architecture", Cook, Carpenter, and Catmull, SIGGRAPH 1987
• "RenderMan: An Advanced Path Tracing Architecture for Movie Rendering", Christensen et al., TOG 2018

Mar 21, Lecture 18:
Real-Time Shadows

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "Rendering Fake Soft Shadows with Smoothies", Chan & Durand, EGSR 2003
• "Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware", Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2002

Pass/No Credit deadline

Mar 25, Lecture 19:
Shaders and Procedural Modeling

Reading Due:

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

Optional Readings:

• "Geometry Images", Gu, Gortler, & Hoppe, SIGGRAPH 2010
• "Hardware-Accelerated Global Illumination by Image Space Photon Mapping", McGuire & Luebke, HPG 2009

Mar 28, Lecture 20:
Color

Reading Due: (pick one)

• "Procedural Modeling of Cities", Parish & Mueller, SIGGRAPH 2001
• "Modeling and visualization of leaf venation patterns", Runions, Fuhrer, Lane, Federl, Roggan-Lagan, & Prusinkiewicz, 2007.

Apr 1, Lecture 21:
Texture Synthesis

Apr 4, Lecture 22:
Non-Photorealistic Rendering

Apr 8, Lecture 23:
Computational Photography