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= CS348b Wiki =

This is the course wiki for cs348b - Image Synthesis

Some results from last year's [http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-competition/cs348b-05/ Rendering Competition]:

http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-06/images/hawk.jpg
http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-06/images/peacock.jpg
http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-06/images/donuts.jpg

== Announcements ==
 * '''Information on [wiki:Self:FinalProject final projects] is now on-line!  Project proposals are due Friday May 19th.  Please be active in talking with us about your projects so you can put together a good plan.'''

 * '''Assignment 4 is now available on the ["Assignment4"] page.'''

 * Assignment 3 is available [wiki:Assignment3 here]. It is due Fri May 5th 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.

== Syllabus ==

|| Week || Dates ||<style="width: 200px;"> Tue ||<style="width: 200px;"> Thu ||
|| 1 || Apr 4, 6 || [wiki:Self:Lectures#Goals The Goals of Rendering] || [wiki:Self:Lectures#Basic Ray Tracing I: Basic Algorithms] ||
|| 2 || Apr 11, 13 || [wiki:Self:Lectures#Acceleration Ray Tracing II: Acceleration Techniques] || [wiki:Self:Lectures#Radiometry Radiometry] ||
|| 3 || Apr 18, 20 || [wiki:Self:Lectures#LightField The Light Field] || [wiki:Self:Lectures#MonteCarloI Monte Carlo Integration I] ||
|| 4 || Apr 25, 27 || [wiki:Self:Lectures#Camera Cameras and Film]|| [wiki:Self:Lectures#MonteCarloII Monte Carlo Integration II]  ||
|| 5 || May 2, 4  || [wiki:Self:Lectures#Sampling Sampling and Reconstruction] (''Kayvon'') || [wiki:Self:Lectures#ReflectionI Reflection Models I: BRDFs and Diffuse] ||
|| 6 || May 9, 11 || [wiki:Self:Lectures#ReflectionII 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) ||

== Information ==

 * Time: 9:30-10:45am, Tu/Th, Spring 2006

 * Room: [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/tcseq/102.html Hewlett 102]

 * Course staff mailing list: cs348b-spr0506-staff@lists.stanford.edu

 * ["Instructors"]

 * ["Participants"]

 * ["Bibliography"]

 * ["Syllabus"]

 * [wiki:Self:PBRTInfo PBRT Information]

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