School of Continuing Studies
CS 395: Advanced Computer Graphics
Winter 2004

Image Courtesy of Brian Smitts

Instructor: Amy Gooch Class meets: Saturday, 9am to 12pm Department of Computer Science 1890 Maple Avenue 3rd Floor, Room 342 [Directions] First class: Januaray 8th, 2004 Holiday: None

Page Index

• Lectures/Presentations
• Helpful Resources
• Schedule
  [Week 1] [Week 2] [Week 3] [Week 4] [Week 5] [Week 6] [Week 7] [Week 8] [Week 9] [Week 10]
• Syllabus [pdf]
  • Optional Textbook
  • Prerequisites
  • Coursework
  • Course Evaluation

• Introduction to Computer Graphics (01.10.2004) [pdf]
• Classical Rendering Papers (01.10.2004) [pdf]
• Photorealistic Rendering [pdf]
• Non-Photorealistic Rendering [pdf]
• Mars Cameras [pdf]
• Image-based Rendering [pdf]
• Environment Mapping [pdf]
• Hardware Rendering
  • Nvidia's GDC2003 presentation on demos [pdf] Nvidia's GDC2003 presentation on Art & shading [pdf]
• Modeling [pdf]
• VR and Perception [pdf]
• Texture Synthesis
• Animation
• Simulation

• How to Start doing a Research Summary
• List of Papers introducing techniques to CG (classical)
• Intro to OpenGL (10.1.03) [ppt] [pdf]
• Intro to Texture Mapping by Rosalee Wolfe [pdf] [ppt]
• Details on Texture Mapping [pdf]
• Environment Mapping
  • Cube Environment Mapping
• Paper Resources
  • A search engine for finding papers (SIGGRAPH stuff)
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Links to lots of places to find papers
• Animations
  • Yeah! The movie
• Mars
  • NASA/JPL Mars page
  • Planetary Society

WEEK 1: [Download all papers for the week]
• Photorealistic Rendering (Classical Papers)

  • Illuminate for Computer Generated Picutres
    Bui Tuong Phong
    [pdf]
    

  • The Aliasing Problem in Computer-Generated Shaded Images
    Frank Crow
    SIGGRAPH 1977
    [pdf]
    

  • Pyramidal Parametrics
    Lance Williams
    SIGGRAPH 1983
    [pdf]
    

  • Ray Tracing JELL-O Brand Gelatin
    Paul S. Heckbert
    SIGGRAPH 1987
    [pdf]
    
• Week 2: Photorealistic Rendering (Hot topics & New Research)
  Download Week's Papers

  • A Data-Driven Reflectance Model
    Matusik, Pfister, Brand, McMillan
    SIGGRAPH 2003
    [pdf]
    Amy Presents [ppt]

  • Shadow Matting and Composition
    Chuang, Goldman, Curless, Salesin, Szeliski
    SIGGRAPH 2003
    [pdf]
    David Presents [ppt]

  • Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers
    Marschner, Jensen, Cammarano, Worley, Hanrahan
    SIGGRAPH 2003
    [pdf]
    David Presents[ppt]

• Week 3: Non-Photorealisitic Rendering
  [Download this week's papers]

  • Paint
    Alvy Ray Smith
    IEEE Tutorial on Computer Graphics 1982
    

  • Comprehensible Rendering of 3-D Shapes
    Takafumi Saito, Tokiichiro Takahashi.
    Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 90). 24(4), pp. 197-206, 1990.

  • Designing Effective step-by-step assembly instructions
    Agarawala, Phan, Heiser, Hymaker, Klinger, Hanrahan, Tversky
    SIGGRAPH 2003
    Renald Presents
    

  • Suggestive Contours for Conveying Shape
    DeCarlo, Finkelstein, Rusinkiewicz, Santella
    SIGGRAPH 2003
    Renald Presents
    

• Week 4: Image Based techniques (High Dynamic Range and Image Compositing)
  [Download this week's papers]

  • Texture and Reflection in Computer Generated Images
    Jim Blinn and Martin Newell
    Communications of the ACM, 1976
    

  • "Plenoptic modeling: an image-based rendering system"
    L. McMillan and G. Bishop
    Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH'95), pp. 39-46, Aug. 1995.
    

  • Poisson image editing
    Patrick Pérez, Michel Gangnet, Andrew Blake
    July 2003 ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 22 Issue 3
    
    Andrea Presents
    

  • Environment matting and compositing
    Douglas Zongker et al.,
    SIGGRAPH 99.
    Andrea Presents
    

  • [OPTIONAL] Animating Chinese Landscape Paintings and Panorama using Multi-Perspective Modeling, Chu et al. [HTML page with Videos]

  • Cube Mapping by nvidia (State of the Art)

• Week 5: Hardware Rendering [Download this week's papers]

  • [OPTIONAL] Cg: a system for programming graphics hardware in a C-like language
    William R. Mark, R. Steven Glanville, Kurt Akeley, Mark J. Kilgard
    SIGGRAPH 2003
    
  • Nvidia's web site on Cg
  • Ray tracing on programmable graphics hardware
    Timothy J. Purcell, Ian Buck, William R. Mark, Pat Hanrahan
    SIGGRAPH July 2002
    Renald Presents
    
  • "The GPU Enters Computing's Mainstream" by Michael Macedonia, GeorgiaTech Research Institute. Renald Presents
    

• Week 6: Modeling
  [Download this week's papers]

  • The space of human body shapes: Reconstruction and parametrization from range scans
    Brett Allen, Brian Curless, Zoran Popovic
    SIGGRAPH 2003

  • Particle Systems: A technique for modeling a class of fuzzy objects
    William Reeves
    SIGGRAPH 1983
    David Presents
    

  • Anisotropic Polygonal Remeshing
    Pierre Alliez David Cohen-Steiner, Olivier Devillers, Bruno Levy, Mathieu Desburn
    Siggraph 2003 David Presents
    

• Week 7: Perception, Manipulation, and Immersive Environments
  [Download this week's papers]

  • A head-mounted three dimensional display
    Ivan Sutherland
    Proceedings of the AFIPS Fall Joint Computer Conference 1968

  • [OPTIONAL] Sketchpad: a man-machine Graphical communication system
    Sutherland
    Proceedings of the AFIPS Fall Joint Computer Conference 1963

  • Evaluating the Visual Fidelity of Physically Based Animations
    Sullivan, Dingliana, Giang, Kaiser
    SIGGRAPH 2003
    Andrea Presents
    

  • Incorporating Dynamic Real Objects in Immersive Virtual Environments
    Lok, Naik, Whitton, Brooks
    I3D 2003
    Andrea Presents
    

• Week 8: Texture Synthesis
  [Download this week's papers]

  • An Image Synthesizer
    Ken Perlin
    SIGGRAPH 1985
    

  • Image quilting for texture synthesis and transfer
    Alexei A. Efros and William T. Freeman
    SIGGRAPH 2001
    [HTML]
    David Presents
    

  • Wang Tiles For Image and Texture Generation
    Michael Cohen, Jonathan Shade, Stephen Hiller and Oliver Deussen
    Siggraph 2003
    [Video]
    David Presents
    

  • [OPTIONAL] "Object-Based Image Editing". Barrett and Cheney. SIGGRAPH 2002

  • [OPTIONAL] "Improving Noise", Ken Perlin, SIGGRAPH 2002

  • [OPTIONAL] "Image analogies". Aaron Hertzmann, Charles E. Jacobs, Nuria Oliver, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin. SIGGRAPH 2001

• Week 9: Animation [Download this week's papers]

  • Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation
    John Lasseter
    SIGGARPH 1987
    SIGGRAPH Education page on Animation
    Renald Presents
    

  • Layered Acting for character Animation
    Mira Dontcheva, Gary Yngve, Zoran Popovic
    SIGGRAPH 2003
    [HTML] [Video]
    Renald Presents
    

• Week 10: Simulation and Dynamics
  [Download this week's papers]

  • Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavior Model Craig Reynolds
    SIGGRAPH 1987
    

  • Visual Simulation of Smoke
    Fedkiw, Stam, Jensen
    SIGGRAPH 2001
    (Videos on Fedkiw's web page)
    Andrea Presents
    

    D. Baraff, A. Witkin and M. Kass. Untangling Cloth. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003: Volume 22, Number 3, 862-870. Andrea Presents
    [Video]