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CS779: Rendering Images with Computers

Spring 2003


Instructor: Stephen Chenney

Email: schenney@cs.wisc.edu
Office: 6387 Computer Sciences and Statistics
Office Hours: By appointment

TA: Eric McDaniel

Email: chate@cs.wisc.edu
Office Hour: By appointment.

Announcements

The NPR program is in the calendar below. It is TENTATIVE.

Project description due April 11. Email pdf to cs779-1@cs.


Final Projects

The final project results can be viewed here.


Calendar


Jan 22
  • Introduction
  • Raytracing
  • Assignment 1: Write a ray-tracer.
  • Lecture notes
Jan 24
  • Radiometry
  • The reference for this lecture was Sillion and Puech.
  • Lecture notes
Jan 27 Jan 29
Jan 31
  • Sub-structuring
  • Adaptive refinement
  • Hierarchical Radiosity
  • Lecture notes
Feb 3
  • Importance
  • High-Quality Form Factors
  • Improved Meshing
  • Lecture notes
Feb 5
  • Finite-Element approaches
  • Overcoming the diffuse assumption
  • Two-pass methods
  • Lecture notes
Feb 7
Feb 10
  • Intro to Monte Carlo Methods
  • A probability refresher
  • Lecture notes
Feb 12

Feb 17
Feb 19

Feb 24
Feb 26
  • More subsurface scattering
  • Sky illumination models
  • Lecture notes

Mar 3
Mar 5

Mar 10
  • High Dynamic Range Image Capture
  • Introduciton to Image Based Rendering (IBR)
  • Assignment 3
  • Lecture notes
Mar 12

Mar 24
Mar 26

Mar 31
Mar 26
  • CANCELLED

April 7
Painting
April 9
Stylization
April 11
Sketching
April 14
Animation
April 16
Precursors and Extensions

April 21
April 23


General Course Information

This course is about using computers to produce images. It covers high-quality rendering (photorealistic rendering), image-based rendering, stylized rendering, and real-time rendering. Early in the course there will be a sequence of programming assignments, and then a project to finish.
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