High Speed Rendering
- Advanced Textures
- Mipmapping
- Anisotropic texture filtering
- 3D (solid) texturing
- Multitexture
- Pixel/Fragment Shaders
- Basics
- ARB_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM
- Dependent textures
- Higher-level languages
- Shadow Computation
- Shadow maps
- Shadow volumes
- If time and interest warrant: Geometry processing
- Large-scale terrain decimation
- Subdivision surfaces & adaptive refinement
High Quality Rendering
- Raytracing
- Raytracing basics
- Raytracing accelleration via bounding volumes
- Soft raytracing via multisampling
- Soft raytracing via cone tracing
- Radiometry
- Terminology: luminance, irradiance
- Surface-to-surface rendering equation
- Radiosity & Global Illumination
- Volume Rendering
- Ray marching
- Splatting and shear-warp
- Discrete ordinates radiation transport
- If time and interest warrant: Camera calibration
- Geometric calibration (camera matrix, radial distortion)
- Radiometric calibration (gamma correction, aperture compensation)
- High dynamic range imagery
- Integration of synthetic and real imagery
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| Calendar |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
| January |
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21 First day
of class
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Textures
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24
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26
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28 Add Deadline
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-
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31
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| February
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2 HW1, PROJ1 Topic Due
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4
Drop Deadline
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Pixel Shaders
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7
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9
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11
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-
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14
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16 PROJ1
Design Due
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18
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Shadows
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21
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23 |
25
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| - |
28
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| March |
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2
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4
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Review and Midterm
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7
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9 MIDTERM & PROJ1 Code Due
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11
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Spring Break
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14 (BREAK)
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16 (BREAK)
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18 (BREAK)
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Raytracing
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21 Last day
to Withdraw
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23 PROJ2
Topic Due
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25
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| - |
28
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30 |
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| April |
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1
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| Radiometry |
4
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6 PROJ2 Design Due
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8
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| - |
11
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13
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15
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Volume Rendering
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18
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20
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22
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| - |
25
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27 PROJ2 Due
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29 (BREAK)
Springfest
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| May |
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Semester Project Demos
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2 PROJECT
Demos
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4 PROJECT
Demos
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6 Review for
final exam
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Finals Week
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9 (NO CLASS)
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11 FINAL at 1PM
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