Advanced Computer Graphics (CSCI 4530/6530)

CSCI 4530/6530 - Spring 2013
Advanced Computer Graphics

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Note: Lecture and lab topics are tentative and will be updated as the term progresses.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Jan 21 No Classes	Jan 22, Lecture 1: Introduction & Transformations		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
	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		Jan 31, Homework 1 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	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)
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		Feb 7, Homework 1: Simplification & Subdivision due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Feb 8, Lecture 6: Particle Systems, Cloth Simulation
	Lecture 7: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation		Feb 14,Homework 2 progress post A due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Feb 15,Lecture 8: Rigid Body Dynamics & Deformation
Feb 18 No Classes	Feb 19 Monday schedule, No lecture		Feb 14,Homework 2 progress post B due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Feb 22, Lecture 9: Fracture
	Feb 26, Lecture 10: Inverse Kinematics		Feb 28, Homework 2: Cloth & Fluid Simulation due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Mar 1, Quiz 1
	Mar 5, Lecture 11: Ray Tracing & Distributed Ray Tracing		Mar 7, Homework 3 progress post A due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Mar 8, Lecture 12: Local vs. Global Illumination & Radiosity
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		Homework 3 progress post B due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Mar 22, Lecture 14: Irradiance Caching, Photon Mapping Last day to drop courses
	Mar 26, Lecture 15: Sampling & Aliasing		Mar 28, Homework 3: Ray Tracing, Radiosity, & Photon Mapping due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Mar 29, Lecture 16: Subsurface Scattering
	Apr 2, Lecture 17: Graphics Pipeline		Apr 4, Final Project Proposal & Background Research due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Apr 5, Lecture 18: Shadows
	Apr 9, Lecture 19: Programmable GPUs	Apr 10, No Classes	Apr 11, Homework 4 progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Apr 12, Lecture 20: Procedural Modeling
	Apr 16, Lecture 21: Non-Photorealistic Rendering		Apr 18, Homework 4: Stencil Buffer & GPU due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	Apr 19, Lecture 22: Texture Synthesis
	Apr 23, Lecture 23: Computational Photography Pass/No Credit deadline		Apr 25, Final Project progress post due @ 11:59pm (on LMS)	Apr 26, Quiz 2
	Apr 30, Final Project Presentations		May 2, Final Project Reports due @ 11:59pm (on homework server)	May 3, Final Project Presentations
	May 7, Final Project Presentations
May 13 - May 17 RPI Final Exams No Final Exam for Advanced Computer Graphics