CS348b Wiki

This is the course wiki for cs348b - Image Synthesis

Some results from last year's Rendering Competition:

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Announcements

Assignment 3 is available here. It is due Thu May 4th at midnight.
Instructions for building PBRT on Linux (the 'myth' machines in Sweet) and on Windows using Visual Studio 2003 are available on the PBRTInfo page.
For students building on windows, I've placed an exrtotiff binary here.
The slides for each lecture are in the wiki. There is a running assignment to comment on the lectures. You are
required to enter 1 extended comment per lecture within 1 week of the lecture. See Guidelines for what we are looking for in the comments.
If you are taking the course for credit, pick a wikiname (my wikiname is PatHanrahan) and create a login account. Then familiarize yourself with how to use this wiki. Finally, add yourself to the Participants by editing that page (you can only edit pages when logged in).

Week	Dates	Tue	Thu
1	Apr 4, 6	The Goals of Rendering	Ray Tracing I: Basic Algorithms
2	Apr 11, 13	Ray Tracing II: Acceleration Techniques	Radiometry
3	Apr 18, 20	The Light Field	Monte Carlo Integration I
4	Apr 25, 27	Cameras and Film	Monte Carlo Integration II
5	May 2, 4	Sampling and Reconstruction (Kayvon)	Reflection Models I: BRDFs and Diffuse
6	May 9, 11	Reflection Models II: Glossy	Texture
7	May 16, 18	Light Transport and the Rendering Equation	Monte Carlo Path Tracing
8	May 23, 25	Irradiance Caching and Photon Mapping	Participating Media and Volume Rendering
9	May 30, Jun 1	Reflection Models III: Anisotropic Reflection	Current Topics in Rendering

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