| Date |
Topic (click for notes) |
Readings |
Assignments |
| Mon, Sep 13 |
Introduction; 3D object representations |
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| Thu, Sep 16 |
Mesh data structures; intro to decimation |
Luebke 01 |
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| Tue, Sep 21 |
Mesh simplification |
Garland 97,
Hoppe 96,
Hoppe 97
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| Thu, Sep 23 |
Mesh signal processing |
Guskov 00 |
Exercise 1 due |
| Tue, Sep 28 |
Subdivision surfaces |
SIGGRAPH 2000 Course Notes |
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| Thu, Sep 30 |
Spline curves and surfaces |
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| Tue, Oct 5 |
Implicit surfaces |
Bloomenthal 02 |
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| Thu, Oct 7 |
Solid modeling |
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Assignment 1 due |
| Tue, Oct 12 |
Managing scene complexity |
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| Thu, Oct 14 |
Visibility computation |
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| Tue, Oct 19 |
Image-based rendering |
Levoy 96, Gortler 96 |
Exercise 2 due |
| Thu, Oct 21 |
Image and light field sampling |
Chai 00 |
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| Tue, Oct 26 |
No class - fall break |
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| Thu, Oct 28 |
No class - fall break |
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| Tue, Nov 2 |
Radiometry and Light Transport |
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| Thu, Nov 4 |
Global illumination |
Kajiya 86 |
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| Tue, Nov 9 |
Monte Carlo path tracing |
SIGGRAPH 2001 course notes |
Assignment 2 due |
| Thu, Nov 11 |
Monte Carlo details |
Lafortune 94; Lafortune 93 |
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| Tue, Nov 16 |
Radiosity |
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Exercise 3 due |
| Thu, Nov 18 |
NPR (lecture by Adam Finkelstein) |
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| Tue, Nov 23 |
Differential Geometry and Suggestive Contours |
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| Thu, Nov 25 |
No class - happy Thanksgiving! |
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| Tue, Nov 30 |
Kinematics |
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| Thu, Dec 2 |
Particle systems and passive dynamics |
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| Tue, Dec 7 |
Active dynamics |
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Assignment 3 due |
| Thu, Dec 9 |
Final project proposal talks |
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| Tue, Jan 11 |
Final project presentations |
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