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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Jan 13, Lecture 1: Introduction & Transformations		Jan 15, Homework 0: OpenGL Warmup	Jan 16, 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 19 No Classes	Jan 20, Lecture 3: Curves and Surfaces Reading Due: (pick one) "Free-form deformation of solid geometric models", Sederberg & Parry, SIGGRAPH 1986 (alternate link) "Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design", Igarashi et al., SIGGRAPH 1999			Jan 23, Lecture 4: Subdivision Surfaces, part I Reading Due: "Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation", DeRose, Kass & Truong, SIGGRAPH 1998 (alternate link)
Jan 26, Last day to add courses	Jan 27, Lecture 5: Subdivision Surfaces, part II Reading Due: "Piecewise Smooth Surface Reconstruction", Hoppe et al, SIGGRAPH 1994		Jan 29, Homework 1: Simplification & Subdivision due @ 11:59pm	Jan 30, Lecture 6: Particle Systems, Cloth Simulation Reading Due: "Deformation Constraints in a Mass-Spring Model to Describe Rigid Cloth Behavior", Xavier Provot, 1995.
	Feb 3, Lecture 7: Volumetric Data Structures, Collision Detection Reading Due: "Untangling Cloth, Baraff, Witkin, & Kass, SIGGRAPH 2003.			Feb 6, Lecture 8: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation Reading Due: "Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster and Metaxas, 1996.
	Feb 10, Lecture 9: Inverse Kinematics Reading Due: "Synthesis of Complex Dynamic Character Motion from Simple Animation", Liu & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2002		Feb 12, Homework 2: Cloth & Fluid Simulation due @ 11:59pm	Feb 13, Lecture 10: Rigid Body Dynamics, Deformation, Fracture Reading Due:"Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture" O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999
Feb 16 No Classes	Feb 17 Monday Schedule			Feb 20, Lecture 11: Ray Tracing & Distributed Ray Tracing Reading Due: (pick two) "An improved illumination model for shaded display" Turner Whitted, 1980. (alternate link) "Distributed Ray Tracing", Cook, Porter, & Carpenter, SIGGRAPH 1984. "Interactive Depth of Field", Kass, Lefohn, and Owens, Pixar TR 2006.
	Feb 24 Quiz 1 Practice Problems			Feb 27, 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 3, Lecture 13: Rendering Equation & Radiosity, part II Reading Due: (pick one) The Rendering Equation, Kajiya, SIGGRAPH 1986 (alternate link) A Two-Pass Solution to the Rendering Equation: A Synthesis of Ray Tracing and Radiosity Methods, Wallace, Cohen, & Greenberg, SIGGRAPH 1987 (alternate link)		Mar 5, Homework 3: Distributed Ray Tracing & Radiosity due @ 11:59pm	Mar 6, Lecture 14: Shadows Last day to drop courses Reading Due: (pick one) Rendering Fake Soft Shadows with Smoothies, Chan & Durand, EGSR 2003 Rendering Lunar Eclipses, Yapo & Cutler, GI 2009
Mar 9-13, Spring Break, No Classes
	Mar 17, Lecture 15: Graphics Pipeline Reading Due: Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware, Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2002		Mar 19, Final Project Proposal & Background Research due @ 11:59pm	Mar 20, Lecture 16: Programmable GPUs Reading Due: An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction, Chris Wyman, SIGGRAPH 2005 (webpage)
	Mar 24, Lecture 17: Monte Carlo Rendering Reading Due: "Efficient BRDF Importance Sampling Using a Factored Representation" Lawrence, Rusinkiewicz, & Ramamoorthi, SIGGRAPH 2004 (webpage)			Mar 27, Lecture 18: Sampling & Aliasing Reading Due: "Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images", Durand & Dorsey, SIGGRAPH 2002
	Mar 31, Lecture 19: Irradiance Caching, Photon Mapping Reading Due: "Global Illumination using Photon Maps", Henrik Wann Jensen, Rendering Techniques 1996	Apr 1 No Classes		Apr 3, Lecture 20: Subsurface Scattering Reading Due: "A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport", Jensen, Marschner, Levoy, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2001
	Apr 7, Lecture 21: Procedural Modeling Readings Due: (pick one) "An image synthesizer", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 1985 "Procedural Modeling of Buildings", Mueller, Wonka, Haegler, Ulmer & Van Gool, SIGGRAPH 2006		Apr 9, Homework 4: Stencil Buffer & GPU due @ 11:59pm	Apr 10, Lecture 22: Non-Photorealistic Rendering Reading Due: "Stylized rendering techniques for scalable real-time 3D animation", Lake, Marshall, Harris, and Blackstein, NPAR 2000
	Apr 14 Quiz 2 Practice Problems			Apr 17, Lecture 23: Texture Synthesis & Other Applications Reading Due: "Image Analogies", Hertzmann et al., SIGGRAPH 2001
	Apr 21, Lecture 24: Final Project Presentations 2:00 Cody & David 2:24 Jeff 2:38 Josh & Jon Z. 3:02 Chris J. & Jarrett 3:26 Jeremy 3:40 done!		Apr 23, Final Project Reports due at 11:59pm	Apr 24, Lecture 25: Final Project Presentations 2:00 Joseph & Atira 2:24 Chris L. & Devin 2:48 Sean 3:02 Luke 3:16 Abhishek & Taro 3:40 Allan 3:54 done!
	Apr 28, Lecture 26: Final Project Presentations 2:00 Yi Xiang 2:14 Patrick 2:28 Jon C. 2:42 Eric & Andrew 3:06 Justin & Mike "Z" 3:30 Greg 3:44 Corey 3:58 done!	Apr 29 Last day of classes
May 4-8, Final Exams, No final for Advanced Computer Graphics