CS 638: Graphics II

Class time/location: Wednesdays 5-7:30pm, Lieb Building rm 319.
Prof. Quynh Dinh
Office hours: Tuesdays 10:30am-noon, Lieb Building rm 302. All other times by appointment.

Text

Required

• Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques [Watt and Watt]

Recommended

• OpenGL Programming Guide, 2nd Edition [Woo, Neider, Davis]
• OpenGL Reference Manual, 2nd Edition [Editors Kempf and Frazier]
• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition [Foley, Van Dam, Feiner, Hughes]

Grading Policy

Assignment Breakdown

• Project 50%
• Leading Discussions 30% (Tips on leading discussion)
• Participating in Discussions 20%

Submission Policy

A single, major project will be implemented. At the end of the semester, a demo and presentation of the project is to be given in the final week of class.

Syllabus

Links below are to original papers on the specified topic. They form part of the reading assignments for this class.

Week	Topic	Assignment
1	Review of Graphics Pipeline, Realtime Rendering, Review of Shading	Ch.1
2	BRDF, Reflectance Models	Ch.2
3	Rendering Equation, Recursive Ray-tracing	paper, skim Ch.8 and Ch.12
4	Distributed Ray-tracing, Metropolis Light Transport	papers, skim Ch.10
5	Global Illumination, Progressive Radiosity, 2-Pass Approach	papers, ch12-12.1, skim Ch.11
6	Photon Maps	paper
7	Anti-aliasing (part1, part2), Texture Mapping	Ch.4.7,Ch.6, papers
8	Lumigraph	paper
9	Unstructured Lumigraph Rendering, Image-Based Visual Hulls	papers
10	Volumetric Methods - Ray-Casting, Splatting, Marching Cubes	paper, Ch.13.4-13.6
11	Interactive Volume Rendering	paper
12	Parametric Curves and Surfaces	Ch.3
13	Non-photorealistic Rendering (Dr. Seuss)	paper
14	Final Exam: Presentation of projects

Resources

• Sample OpenGL programs on NetBSD system are in the following directory:
  /usr/X11R6/share/examples/MesaDemos-5.0/
• Sample Makefile
• OpenGL Programmer's Reference Guide
• OpenGL.org