CSCI 4530/6530 - Spring 2013
Advanced Computer Graphics
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Course Calendar

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

Reading Due: "Deformation Constraints in a Mass-Spring Model to Describe Rigid Cloth Behavior", Xavier Provot, 1995.

Optional Reading:
"Untangling Cloth", Baraff, Witkin, & Kass, SIGGRAPH 2003.
  Feb 12, Lecture 7:
Navier-Stokes, Fluid Simulation

Reading Due:"Realistic Animation of Liquids", Foster and Metaxas, 1996
  Feb 14,Homework 2
progress post A
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
Feb 15, Lecture 8:
Rigid Body Dynamics & Deformation

Reading Due(pick one):
Deformable Objects Alive! Coros, Martin, Thomaszewski, Schumacher, & Sumner, SIGGRAPH 2012

"Coupling Water and Smoke to Thin Deformable and Rigid Shells", Guendelman, Selle, Losasso, & Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2005
Feb 18
No Classes
Feb 19
Monday schedule,
No lecture
  Feb 21, Homework 2
progress post B
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
Feb 22, Lecture 9:
Fracture

Reading Due:
"Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture" O'Brien & Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999
  Feb 26, Lecture 10:
Inverse Kinematics

Reading Due: pick one
"Real-Time Hand-Tracking with a Color Glove", Wang & Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009

"Energy-based Self-Collision Culling for Arbitrary Deformations", SIGGRAPH 2012, Zheng & James
  Feb 28, Homework 2:
Cloth & Fluid Simulation

due @ 11:59pm
(on homework server)
Mar 1,
Quiz 1

Practice Problems
(an old quiz, note that we have read some different papers)
  Mar 5, Lecture 11:
Ray Tracing & Distributed Ray Tracing

Reading Due:(pick one, but read the other before homework 3)
"An improved illumination model for shaded display" Turner Whitted, 1980.
(alternate link)

"Distributed Ray Tracing", Cook, Porter, & Carpenter, SIGGRAPH 1984.
  Mar 7, Homework 3
progress post A
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
Mar 8, 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 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

Reading Due:
"The Rendering Equation", Kajiya, SIGGRAPH 1986
(alternate link)

"A Theoretical Framework for Physically Based Rendering", Lafortune and Willems, Computer Graphics Forum, 1994.
(alternate link)
  Mar 21, Homework 3
progress post B
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
Mar 22, Lecture 14:
Irradiance Caching, 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

Last day to drop courses
  Mar 26, Lecture 15:
Sampling & Aliasing

Reading Due:
"Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images", Durand & Dorsey, SIGGRAPH 2002
  Mar 28, Homework 3:
Ray Tracing, Radiosity, & Photon Mapping

due @ 11:59pm
(on homework server)
Mar 29, Lecture 16:
Subsurface Scattering

Reading Due: (pick one)
"A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport", Jensen, Marschner, Levoy, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2001

"Radiance Caching for Participating Media", Jarosz, Donner, Zwicker, & Jensen, 2008

  Apr 2, Lecture 17:
Graphics Pipeline

Reading Due:
One of the subsurface scattering papers from Lecture 16!

  Apr 4, Final Project
Proposal & Background Research

due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
Apr 5, Lecture 18:
Shadows

Reading Due:
Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware, Purcell, Buck, Mark, & Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH 2002

"Shadow algorithms for computer graphics" Crow, SIGGRAPH 1977
(alternate link)

Mark Kilgard's Stencil Buffer Tutorial
  Apr 9, Lecture 19:
Programmable GPUs

Reading Due:
An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction, Chris Wyman, SIGGRAPH 2005
(webpage)
Apr 10,
No Classes
Apr 11, Homework 4
progress post
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
Apr 12, Lecture 20:
Procedural Modeling

Reading Due:
"An image synthesizer", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 1985
(alternate link)
and
"Improving Noise", Perlin, SIGGRAPH 2002

or

"Procedural Modeling of Buildings", Mueller, Wonka, Haegler, Ulmer & Van Gool, SIGGRAPH 2006
  Apr 16, Lecture 21:
Non-Photorealistic Rendering

Reading Due:
"WYSIWYG NPR: Drawing Strokes Directly on 3D Models" Kalnins, Markosian, Meier, Kowalski, Lee, Davidson, Webb, Hughes, & Finkelstein, SIGGRAPH 2002
  Apr 18, Homework 4:
Stencil Buffer & GPU

due @ 11:59pm
(on homework server)
Apr 19, Lecture 22:
Texture Synthesis

Reading Due:
"Fragment-based Image Completion", Drori, Cohen-Or, & Yeshurun, SIGGRAPH 2003

Pass/No Credit deadline

  Apr 23, Lecture 23:
Computational Photography
  Apr 25, Final Project
progress post
due @ 11:59pm
(on LMS)
Apr 26,
Quiz 2

Practice Problems
  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