All lecture slides will be placed online the night before class. Please try to do the readings in advance.
Note: these lecture slides were not designed to be self-explanatory. I write on the slides and add a great deal of material during class.
- Mar 28 The Goals of Rendering
- Mar 30 Ray Tracing I: Basic Algorithm, Ray-Surface Intersection
- Apr 4 Ray Tracing II: Acceleration Techniques
- Apr 6 The Light Field
- Apr 11 Lights and Lighting, Illumination
- Apr 13 Camera and Film
- Apr 18 Sampling and Reconstruction, Aliasing and Antialiasing
- Apr 20 Statistical Sampling
- Apr 25 Reflection Models I: BRDFs, Ideal Specular and Diffuse
- Apr 27 Reflection Models II: Glossy
- May 2 Texture
- May 4 The Rendering Equation
- May 9 Monte Carlo Methods I: Probability, Sampling and Variance Reduction
- May 11 Monte Carlo Methods II: Sampling Paths
- May 16 Monte Carlo Methods III: Irradiance Caching and Photon Maps
- May 18 Radiosity I: Form Factors, Solvers
- May 23 Radiosity II: Meshing and Hierarchical Techniques
- May 25 NO LECTURE
- May 30 Volume Rendering
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