Lecture Slides for CS348B: Image Synthesis Techniques

All lecture slides will be placed online the night before class.

Lecture Slides

Lecture 1: The Goals of Rendering

Lecture 2: Ray Tracing I: Basic Algorithm, Ray-Surface Intersection

Lecture 3: Ray Tracing II: Acceleration Techniques

Lecture 4: The Light Field

Lecture 5: Lights and Lighting, Illumination

Lecture 6: Camera and Film

Lecture 7: Sampling and Reconstruction, Aliasing and Antialiasing

Lecture 8: Statistical Sampling

Lecture 9: Reflection Models I: BRDFs, Ideal Specular and Diffuse

Lecture 10: Reflection Models II: Glossy

Lecture 11: Texture

Lecture 12: The Rendering Equation

Lecture 13: Monte Carlo I: Probability, Sampling and Variance Reduction>

Lecture 14: Monte Carlo Methods II: Sampling Paths

Lecture 15: Monte Carlo Methods III: Irradiance Caching and Photon Maps

Lecture 16: Radiosity I: Form Factors and Solvers

Lecture 17: Radiosity II: Meshing and Hierarchical Techniques

Lecture 18: Volume Rendering