Schedule: CSE 8433 Advanced Computer Graphics, Spring 2011

For the events and topics listed below, all of the dates are tentative except for the final exam date.  I will adjust this schedule as the semester progresses.

Week Class Dates Events Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
1 Thu, Jan 6   Class Overview
Review and fundamentals of graphics math
2 Tue, Jan 11   (Skim as needed) Introduction (chapter 1)
Miscellaneous Math (chapter 2)
Linear Algebra (chapter 5)
Transformation Matrices (chapter 6)
Thu, Jan 13 Lab 1 Out
3 Tue, Jan 18   Basic ray tracing, shooting rays, ray/sphere intersection
Ray Tracing (chapter 4)
Thu, Jan 20  
4 Tue, Jan 25   Surface shading (chapter 10)
Thu, Jan 27  
5 Tue, Feb 1 Lab 1 Due Ray/polygon intersection
Thu, Feb 3 Lab 2 Out
6 Tue, Feb 8    
Thu, Feb 10  
7 Tue, Feb 15 Lab 2 Due Signal processing (chapter 9)
Anti-aliasing (slides)
Thu, Feb 17  
8 Tue, Feb 22   Stochastic sampling (Cook TOG 86 paper)
Distributed ray tracing (Cook SIGGRAPH 84 paper)
Thu, Feb 24 Midterm Exam
Lab 3 Out
9 Tue, Mar 1    
Thu, Mar 3  
10 Tue, Mar 8   Refraction (slide), texture mapping
Thu, Mar 10 Lab 3 Due
Lab 4 Out
  Tue, Mar 15   (Spring Break)
Thu, Mar 17  
11 Tue, Mar 22   Measuring light (chapter 20)
Local illumination models (Watt Chapter 7)
Thu, Mar 24  
12 Tue, Mar 29 Lab 4 Due The rendering equation (Kajia SIGGRAPH 86 paper)
Advanced global illumination, path tracing, particle tracing, photon mapping (Watt Chapter 10)
Thu, Mar 31  
13 Tue, Apr 5 Final Project Out Advanced topic presentations 1, 2
Thu, Apr 7  
14 Tue, Apr 12   Advanced topic presentations 3, 4, 5, 6
Illusory motion (Chi SIGGRAPH paper)
Tetrachromatic women (Post-Gazette article 06)
Thu, Apr 14  
15 Tue, Apr 19   Advanced topic presentations 7, 8, 9
Thu, Apr 21 Final Project Due
16 Thu, Apr 28, 3–6 pm Final Exam Period Final project presentations
Last Modified: August 06, 2012