CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques

Course Materials

Rendering Competition and Final Project results

Lecture Notes

March 30 - Introduction.  (HO #2)

April 1     - "A Framework for Realistic Image Synthesis"  (framewrk.pdf;  HO #3) Don Greenberg

April 6     - An Overview of Ray Tracing.  (HO #5)

April 13   - Sampling and Antialiasing.

April 15   - Sampling and Antialiasing II.

April 20   - Sampling.

April 22   - Accelerated Ray Tracing.

April 27   - Color.   Maureen Stone

April 29   - Cohen and Wallace, "Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis", Chapters 4, 7, and 8.

May 6      - Shadows.

May 11    - Texture.

May 18    - Texture II.

May 20    - Non-Photorealistic Rendering.

May 27    - Volume Rendering.

June 1      - Handling Complexity.

Assignments

Basic ray tracer. (HO #6)

Accelerated rayctracer.

Extending your ray tracer.

Useful Handouts

• Syllabus. (HO #1)
• A Simple Viewing Geometry, by Andrew Glassner, from Graphics Gems II. (HO #7)
• TA Help Session 1 notes.(HO #8)
• TA Project 2 Help Notes.
• Barycentric Coordinates:
• Ken Joy's notes on Barycentric coordinates. (online notes of UCDavis graphics pages)
• Pat Hanrahan's lecture notes. Ray Tracing: Basic formulation, Intersection (1995).
• Ray Tracing News Volume 1 # 11
• HW1 Outstanding Images.
• TA Project 3 Help Notes.

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