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Date
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Title
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Readings and Assignments
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Extras
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9/1
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Introduction |
Read:
• Class syllabus |
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| 9/6 |
Topic #1:
Displays and Frame Buffers
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Read:
• Angel, pp.19-31 [reader pp. 153-168].
• Hearn & Baker, pp. 35-49 [reader pp. 83-90].
• OpenGL Programming Guide [available online]:
• First four sections of chapter 2
• First section of chapter 6
Optional:
• Foley et al., sections 1.5, 4.2-4.5
• I.E. Sutherland. Sketchpad: a man-machine graphics communication
system. Proceedings of the Spring Join Computer Conference, p.
329-346, 1963.
• T.H. Myer & I.E. Sutherland. On the design of display processors.
Communications of the ACM
11(6): 410-414, 1968.
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LCD, Vector
Displays, Raster
Displays
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9/8
and
9/13 |
Topic #2:
Sampling
Theory
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Project #1 handed out.
(Due in two weeks: Thurs Sept 22; artifact due Mon Sept 26)
Read:
• Watt, Section
14.1
Recommended:
• Ron Bracewell, The Fourier Transform and Its Applications,
McGraw-Hill.
• Don P. Mitchell and Arun N. Netravali, “Reconstruction Filters in
Computer Computer Graphics ,” Computer Graphics, (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 88). 22 (4), pp. 221-228, 1988.
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Continuous
1D convolution,
Aliasing,
Paper on cubic filters,
Marc
Levoy's handout on sampling/reconstruction
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| 9/15 |
Topic #3:
Image Processing
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Read:
• Jain, Kasturi,
Schunck, Machine Vision. McGraw-Hill, 1995. Sections 4.2-4.4,
4.5(intro), 4.5.5, 4.5.6, 5.1-5.4.
[Course reader, subset of pp. 91-152]
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Discrete
1D convolution, Snoop, Image warp
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| 9/20 |
Topic #4:
Affine
Transformations:
Part 1 (blckbrd)
Part 2 (slides)
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HW #1 handed out (Due Oct 4th).
Read:
• Watt, Section
1.1.
Optional:
• Foley, et al, Chapter 5.1-5.5.
• David F. Rogers and J. Alan Adams, Mathematical Elements for Computer
Graphics, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990, Chapter 2.
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Change
of basis,
Affine
Transformation Game
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| 9/22 |
Topic #5:
Shading |
Read:
• Watt, sections
6.2-6.3
Optional:
• Watt, chapter 7.
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OpenGL shading applet,
Szymon's
BRDF viewer
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| 9/27 |
Topic #6:
Ray Tracing
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Read:
• Watt, sections
1.3-1.4, 12.1-12.5.1.
• T. Whitted. An improved illumination model for shaded display.
Communications of the ACM 23(6), 343-349, 1980.
[Course reader, pp. 211-217]
Optional:
• A. Glassner. An Introduction to Ray Tracing. Academic Press, 1989.
[In the graphics research lab, ACES 2.102]
• K. Turkowski, “Properties of Surface Normal Transformations,” Graphics Gems, 1990, pp. 539-547.
[Course reader pp. 218-226]
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| 9/29 |
Topic #7:
Anti-aliased and accelerated ray
tracing
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Project #2 assigned.
(Due in two weeks: Thurs Oct 13; artifact due Mon Oct 17)
Read:
• Watt, sections
12.5.3 – 12.5.4, 14.7
Optional:
• A. Glassner. An Introduction to Ray Tracing. Academic Press, 1989.
[In the lab]
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Nyquist
limit |
| 10/4 |
Topic #8:
Distribution ray tracing:
Part 1 (blkboard),
Part 2 (slides) |
Read:
• Watt, sections
10.6 ,14.8.
Optional:
• A. Glassner. An Introduction to Ray Tracing. Academic Press, 1989.
[In the lab.]
• Robert L. Cook, Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter.
“Distributed Ray Tracing.” Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
84). 18 (3). pp. 137-145. 1984.
• James T. Kajiya. “The Rendering Equation.” Computer Graphics
(Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 86). 20 (4). pp. 143-150. 1986.
• Henrik Wann Jensen, “Basic Monte Carlo Integration”, Appendix A from book “Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping”.
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| 10/6 |
Topic #9:
Texture mapping |
Read:
• Watt, intro to
Chapter 8 and intros to 8.1, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8.
Recommended:
• Paul S. Heckbert. Survey of texture mapping. IEEE Computer Graphics
and Applications 6(11): 56--67, November 1986.
[Course reader pp. 227-238]
Optional:
• Watt, the rest of Chapter 8
• Woo, Neider, & Davis, Chapter 9
• James F. Blinn and Martin E. Newell. Texture and reflection in
computer generated images. Communications of the ACM 19(10): 542--547,
October 1976.
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Texture
Mapping Primitives,
Procedural
Textures |
| 10/11 |
Topic #10:
Hierarchical
modeling
and
Extra notes
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Read:
• Angel, sections
9.1 - 9.6 [reader pp. 169-185]
• OpenGL Programming Guide, chapter 3 [available online]
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Hierarchy
of transformations
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| 10/13 |
Topic #11:
Parametric curves |
Read:
• Watt, sections 3.0 - 3.2.2 [textbook pp. 66-84]
Optional: (non-uniform B-Splines; NURBS; continuity)
• Watt, sections 3.2.3 - 3.3.2 [textbook pp. 84-94]
• Foley and vanDam, 2nd ed, pp. 480-482
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Tcl/Tk curve demos (zip file) |
| 10/18 |
Topic #12:
Particle systems |
Read:
• Witkin,
Particle System Dynamics,
SIGGRAPH ’97 course notes on Physically Based Modeling.
[Course reader pp. 283-294]
• Witkin and Baraff, Differential Equation Basics, SIGGRAPH ’01 course
notes on Physically Based Modeling.
[Course reader pp. 275-282]
Optional:
• Hocknew and Eastwood. Computer simulation using particles. Adam
Hilger, New York, 1988.
• Gavin Miller. “The motion dynamics of snakes and worms.” Computer
Graphics 22:169-178, 1988.
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Physically
Based Modeling course, Cloth,
Fish,
Snake,
Soda
Constructor |
| 10/20 |
EXAM #1 |
Covers through topic #10 (hierarchical modeling) |
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| 10/25 |
Topic #13:
C2 interpolating curves |
Optional:
• Bartels, Beatty, and Barsky. An Introduction to Splines for use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, 1987.
[Course reader, pp. 239-247]
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| 10/27 |
Topic #14:
Subdivision curves |
Recommended:
• Stollnitz, DeRose, and Salesin. Wavelets for Computer Graphics:
Theory and Applications, 1996, section 6.1-6.3, A.5.
[Course reader pp. 248-259 and pp. 273-274]
Note: there is an error in Stollnitz, et al., section A.5. Equation A.3
should read:
MV = VΛ
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| 11/1 |
Topic #15:
Animation principles
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Read:
• John Lasseter.
Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation.
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH (Computer Graphics) 21(4): 35-44, July 1987.
[Course reader pp. 295-304]
Recommended:
• Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, Disney animation: The Illusion of
Life, Hyperion, 1981.
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Animation
principles website, Pixar
shorts, Perlin
walkers |
| 11/3 |
Topic #16:
Parametric Surfaces |
Read:
• Watt, 2.1.4,
3.4-3.5.
Optional:
• Watt, 3.6.
• Bartels, Beatty, and Barsky. An Introduction to Splines for use in
Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, 1987.
[Course reader, pp. 239-247]
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Bézier
patch interactive demonstration |
| 11/8 |
Topic #17:
Subdivision
surfaces
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Recommended:
• Stollnitz, DeRose, and Salesin. Wavelets for Computer Graphics:
Theory and Applications, 1996, section 10.2.
[Course reader pp. 262-268]
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Triangular
subdivision surfaces |
| 11/10 |
Topic #18:
Projections
and z-buffers
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Read:
• Watt, Section 5.2.2 –
5.2.4, 6.3, 6.6 (esp. intro and subsections 1, 4, and 8–10)
Optional:
• Foley, et al, Chapter 5.6 and Chapter 6
• David F. Rogers and J. Alan Adams, Mathematical Elements for Computer
Graphics, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990, Chapter 2.
• I. E. Sutherland, R. F. Sproull, and R. A. Schumacker, A
characterization of ten hidden surface algorithms, ACM Computing
Surveys 6(1): 1-55, March 1974.
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Perspective
Camera Transformations, Hitchcock,
Z-buffer
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| 11/15 |
Topic #19:
Visual
perception
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Read:
• Glassner,
Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, pp. 5-32.
[Course reader pp.1-28]
• Watt , Chapter 15.
• Brian Wandell. Foundations of Vision. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland,
MA, pp. 45-50 and 69-97, 1995.
[Course reader pp. 29-34 and pp. 35-63]
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Optical illusions, more, Rod
response, cone
metamers, reflective
metamers, color spaces
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| 11/17 |
Topic #20:
Modern graphics hardware |
Read:
• "The GeForce 6 Series GPU Architecture", Emmett Kilgariff and Randima Fernando, Chapter 30 in GPU Gems 2, edited by Matt Pharr, 2005.
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| 11/22 |
Guest Lecture (Okan Arikan):
Data-driven animation |
No readings. |
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| 11/24 |
No class - Thanksgiving Break |
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| 11/29 |
Topic #21:
Ray tracing for dynamic scenes; and
Overview of other topics in graphics
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No readings.
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| 12/1 |
Exam #2 |
Comprehensive through Topic #20 |
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12/6
(2:00-4:30) |
Student project presentations
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| 12/8 |
No class |
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