Topics and Schedule
CS 395 - Advanced Computer Graphics
Here is the list of the topics we will cover in class. We begin discussion of topics with a 45 minute introductory lecture by the prof. Remaining class time in the week will be taken up with in-depth student presentations on the week's topic. Readings available only to ACM Digital library subscribers are in italics. |
Weekly Topics: |
Matching Readings |
Thu/Tue Jan
10/15 -- Overview: All we know about advanced graphics in
90 minutes! Hold onto your hats... then calm down with some vids.
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Thu-Thu
Jan 17-24 -- Shape representation: Volumes, implicit surfaces, parametric surfaces, point based models... Jan 22: Zadeh, Joseph (paper) |
"Adaptively sampled distance fields: a general representation of shape for computer graphics" Frisken et al., SIGGRAPH 00. "Surface
splatting" Zwicker et al., SIGGRAPH 01. (project
page) |
Thu-Tue
Jan 17-29 -- Image space techniques: Anti-aliasing, compositing, image morphing... Jan 22: Hazen, Daniel (poly tex
maps, demo) |
"Polynomial texture maps" Tom Malzbender et al., SIGGRAPH 01. "Environment matting
and compositing" Douglas Zongker et al., SIGGRAPH 99. |
Tue/Thu
Jan 29/31 - Surface mappings: Procedural textures, bump/displacement maps... Jan 31: Cousens, Jeffrey (paper) |
"Texture synthesis on surfaces" Greg Turk, SIGGRAPH 01. "Lapped
textures" Praun et al., SIGGRAPH 00. |
Tue/Thu
Feb 5/7 - Global illumination & light transport: BRDFs, radiosity, photon mapping, subsurface scattering... Due dates: Feb 5: Paris, Joseph (instant radiosity)
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"Reflection-space image-based rendering" Cabral et al., SIGGRAPH 99. "Instant
radiosity" Alexander Keller, SIGGRAPH 97. (home page) |
Tue/Thu
Feb 12/14 - Shape manipulation: Simplification, morphing, comparison, fitting... Feb 14: Cihocki, John (paper) |
"Shape transformation using variational implicit functions" Turk et al., SIGGRAPH 99. "Topology
matching for fully automatic similarity estimation of 3D shapes"
Hilaga et al., SIGGRAPH 01. |
Tue/Thu
Feb 19/21 - Light fields and Approximations: Visibility culling, shadow maps, lumigraphs... Due date: Feb 19: Lechner, Thomas (deep
shadow maps) |
"The lumigraph" Steven Gortler et al., SIGGRAPH 96. "Deep shadow maps"
Tom Lokovic and Eric Veach, |
Tue/Thu Feb
26/28 - Non-photorealism: Ink, pencil, watercolor, oil, artistic style... Feb 26: Shabib, Mustafa (paper)
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"Escherization" Craig Kaplan et al., SIGGRAPH 00. "Digital facial engraving" Victor Ostromoukhov, SIGGRAPH 99. more...
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Tue/Thu
Mar 5/7 - Model acquisition: Image based modeling & rendering, light field capture, motion capture, 3D scans... Mar 5: Saltzman, Phillip (paper, video) |
"The Digital Michelangelo Project: 3D Scanning of Large Statues" Marc Levoy et al., SIGGRAPH 00. (project page) "Image-Based
Visual Hulls" Matusik et al., SIGGRAPH 00. (project page, presentation)
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Tue/Thu
Mar 12/14 - Demos, Odds & Ends: Project demos, makeup presentations,
survey papers due Thursday... |
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