CS348b Wiki

This is the course wiki for cs348b - Image Synthesis

Some results from last year's Rendering Competition:

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Assignment 3 is available here. It is due Thu May 4th at midnight.
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.

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)	[Lectures#ReflectionI 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
10	June 9		Rendering Competition (Friday)

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