Lectures

Papers and articles available on the web will not be handed out in class. Pointers to the online versions of papers are included by the reference. You are expected to download and print these papers yourselves. One reason for doing this is that many visualization papers contain pictures that do not reproduce well when copied. The ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries are now available online for Stanford students. They are a great resource: learn to use them.

Readings not available online will be handed out in class. They will also be available in the CS348b course handout cabinet in Gates Rm 377 (the copy room in the graphics wing 3B).

Hint: Read the material before class!

The Goals of Rendering

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Readings
  • D. Greenberg, A framework for realistic image synthesis

    (pdf)

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Ray Tracing I: Basics

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 1-3 (Sec 3.7 is optional)

  Readings
  • A. Appel, Some techniques for the machine rendering of solids (handout)
  • R. A. Goldstein, R. Nagel, 3-D visual simulation (handout)
  • T. Whitted, A improved illumination model for shaded display

    (acm).

  • You've been ray tracing too long if ...

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Ray Tracing II: Acceleration Techniques

• Lecture

  • Slides

  • KD-tree Video

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 4

  Readings

  • More ...

Radiometry

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 5, 13

  Readings
  • P. Hanrahan, Rendering concepts (handout)

  • More ...

The Light Field

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Readings
  • None

Monte Carlo Integration I

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 14

  Readings
  • Chapters 2 and 3, SOA in Monte Carlo Ray Tracing

    (pdf)

  • More ...

Cameras and Film

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 6, 8.1-8.5

  Readings
  • Kolb et al, A realistic camera model

    (paper)

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Monte Carlo Integration II

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 (optional), 15.2-15.4

  Readings
  • Cook, Carpenter, Porter, Distributed ray tracing

    (acm pdf)

  • More ...

Sampling and Reconstruction

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 7.1, 7.6

  Examples

  • Images shown in Class (Courtesy Don Mitchell)

  Readings
  • Cook, Stochastic sampling in computer graphics,

    (acm)

  • Mitchell, Generating antialiased images at low sampling densities,

    (acm)

  • Mitchell, Netravali, Reconstruction filters for computer graphics,

    (acm)

  • More ...

Reflection Models I - The BRDF and Ideal Reflection Models

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Readings
  • P. Hanrahan, Rendering concepts, Section 2.5 (handout)
  Examples

  • Examples of Fresnel Reflectance

  • More ...

Reflection Models II - Glossy

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 9

  Readings
  • J. Blinn, Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures (handout)

  • More ...

Texture

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 11

The Rendering Equation

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 16.2

  Readings
  • P. Hanrahan, Rendering concepts, 2.6

  • More ...

Path Tracing

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 16.3

  Readings
  • P. Hanrahan, Solving the rendering equation,

    (pdf)

  • M. Fajardo, Monte Carlo ray tracing in action,

    (pdf)

  • Cook, Carpenter, Porter, Distributed ray tracing,

    (acm)

  • More ...

Irradiance Caching and Photon Maps

• Lecture

  • Slides (pdf)

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 16.4-16.5

  Readings
  • G. Ward, F. Rubinstein and R. Clear, A ray tracing solution for diffuse interreflection,

    (Paper Page)

  • H. W. Jensen, Global illumination using photon maps,

    (Paper Page)

  • More ...

Participating Media and Volume Rendering

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapters 12, 17

  Readings
  • M. Levoy, Display of surfaces from volume data,

    (ieee)

  • N. Max, Optical models for direct volume rendering,

    (pdf)

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Reflection Models III: Anisotropic and Translucent Materials

• Lecture

  • Slides

  Text

  • pbrt Chapter 10

  Readings
  • J. Kajiya and T. Kay, Rendering fur,

    (acm)

  • S. Marschner, et al, Human hair,

    (pdf)

  • H. W. Jensen, et al, BSSRDF,

    (pdf)

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