Here is the list of the topics we will cover in class.  Each week we begin discussion of new 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.  
(Some readings available only to ACM Digital library subscribers).

Weekly Topics:

Matching Reading

Tu/Th Jan 7/9 -- Introduction & Overview:

Jan 7: Tumblin:   Intro, Administrivia; 
               SIGGRAPH Videos: amazing recent advances...
Jan 9: Tumblin: All I know about advanced graphics in 90 minutes! 
              (TumblinWeek1)
 

E-mail your presentation  topic preferences
(1st, 2nd, 3rd) to jet@cs.northwestern.edu by Monday, Jan 13 

Tu/Th Jan 14/16  -- Shape representation:

Volumes, implicit surfaces, parametric surfaces, subdivision surfaces, point based models,...

Jan 14: Tumblin Overview (talk; demos 1, 2; images)  

Jan 14: Jared Brown( talk ):  IBMR/Shape Hybrids: "Image-Based Modeling & Photo-Editing" Byong Mok Oh, Max Chen, Julie Dorsey, Fredo Durand SIGGRAPH2001.

Jan 16: Dan Cogswell:  Particle Systems Tutorial
Jan 16: Steve Gordon:  Parametric Surfaces Tutorial
 

Good starting points: 

Parametric Surfaces

 
Demo: (java applet)  http://cs.jsu.edu/mcis/faculty/leathrum/Mathlets/parasurf.html 
Tutorials http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~karan/... 

Surface Rep. Course Notes, Carnegie Mellon:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/02-gra... 
Tutorial from UCDavis: http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/CAGDNotes/CAGD-Notes.html 
Ronald Goldman's overview; Rice Univ:
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~comp360... 
Great Textbook: "Curves and Surfaces for CAGD" Gerald Farin
http://eros.eas.asu.edu/~farin/cagdbook/cagdbook.html 
Australian National University Tutorial
http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/cg/surfaceModeling/index.en.html 
Short bibliography:
http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~romuld/797.html 


Subdivision Surfaces
SIGGRAPH'98 Tutorial (Schroder, Zorin): (EXCELLENT!)
http://www.multires.caltech.edu/teaching/courses/subdivision/ 
Tutorial from Intel:
http://www.intel.com/labs/media/3dsoftware/subdiv.htm 
Recent work at MaxPlanck Inst:
http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/units/ag4/areas/FreeFormSurfaces/ 

Implicit surfaces
Using radial basis fcns:
http://aranz.com/research/modelling/theory/surfacerep.html 
Using velocity field: (desbrun 98)
http://www-grail.usc.edu/pubs/DC_GI98.pdf 
Using Variational methods:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/geometry... 

JAVA renderer: John Hughes.
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/jfh/is/is.html 

Particle Systems & Procedural modeling

Particle Systems
(particles are no longer an active research area, but useful)

Great tutorial, with many papers
http://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~jch/procgraph/

Seminal Paper that Started it All:
Reeves, William T., "Particle Systems- A Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects" ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 1983, pg. 91-108.
SIGGRAPH2001: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2001.html 
The Use of Positional Information in the Modeling of Plants 
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Lars Muendermann, Radoslaw Karwowski, Brendan Lane (University of Calgary) 

Watt: Chs. 2.2-2.4; 3.1-3.5; 4; 13.1-13.3

"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)
 

Tu/Th Jan 21/23 -- 2D Image space techniques:

Anti-alias, composite, image morph, mosaics, panoramas...

Jan 21: Tumblin: Overview (talk; paper)  
Jan 21: Evan Van Dyke: "Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling" Alexei Efros, Thomas Leung, ICCV1999 (talk; paper)

Jan 23: Chris Hayes:"Transferring Color to Greyscale Images "
Tomihisa Welsh et al., SIGGRAPH2002 (talk, paper)
Jan 23: Gabe Matlin:"Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression" Fattal, Lischinski SIGGRAPH2002 (talk; paper)

Good starting points: 

SIGGRAPH Educational Committee: Teaching Materials
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/mapping/surface0.htm 

SIGGRAPH2001:  Images & Textures:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2001.html 
--"Image Analogies" Aaron Hertzmann (New York University and Microsoft Research), Charles E. Jacobs, Nuria Oliver (Microsoft Research), Brian Curless (University of Washington), David H. Salesin (University of Washington and Microsoft Research) 

SIGGRAPH2002: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2002.html 

--Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression 
Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischinski, Michael Werman (The Hebrew University) 

Watt: Ch. 14

"Environment matting and compositing" Douglas Zongker et al.,  SIGGRAPH 99

"Transferring Color to Greyscale Images "
Tomihisa Welsh, Michael Ashikhmin, Klaus Mueller (Stony Brook University) SIGGRAPH2002
 

Tue/Thu Jan 28/30 - Surface mappings:

Procedural textures & elaboration, bump/displacement maps, ...

Jan 28: Tumblin:     Overview (talk; pictures)  
Jan 28:Leon Zhao: Perspective Shadow Maps (talk; paper)

Jan 30: Jon Super: Texture Synthesis on Surfaces-Turk(talk)
Jan 30: Michael Gradassi: BRDFs and BTFs - Dana (talk)

Good starting points: 
 SIGGRAPH2002: find at: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2002.html 

--Perspective Shadow Maps 
    Marc Stamminger, George Drettakis (REVES/INRIA Sophia-Antipolis) 

--Synthesis of Bidirectional Texture Functions on Arbitrary Surfaces (PDF) 
Xin Tong (Microsoft Research), Jingdan Zhang (Tsinghua University), Ligang Liu (Microsoft Research), Xi Wang (Tsinghua University), Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum (Microsoft Research China) 

SIGGRAPH2001: find at: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2001.html 

--Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis and Transfer 
Alexei A. Efros (University of California, Berkeley), William T. Freeman (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory) 
--Texture Synthesis on Surfaces 
Greg Turk (Georgia Institute of Technology) 

Watt: Ch. 8

"Texture synthesis on surfaces" Greg Turk, SIGGRAPH 01.

"Lapped textures" Praun et al.,  SIGGRAPH 00.
 

Tue/Thu Feb 4/6 - Real Global illumination 
                                 & Convincing Fakes

BRDFs, radiosity, photon mapping, subsurface scattering...

Due dates:
Feb 4 - project proposal, or
Feb 4 - reference list for survey paper 

Feb 4: Tumblin: Overview (talk)
Feb 4: Matt McCrory: BRDFs and Lighting (talk)
Feb 6: Ankit Mohan: Photon Mapping--Wann-Jensen(talk)
Feb 6: 

Good starting points:

 UNC Online Introduction, 

"Fast Calculation of Soft-Shadow Textures Using Convolution" Cyril Soler, Francois Sillion, pg 321, SIGGRAPH1998

"Global Illumination using Photon Maps". In "Rendering Techniques '96". Eds. X. Pueyo and P. Schröder. Springer-Verlag, pp. 21-30, 1996 http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~henrik/papers/ewr7/ 

Desktop RADIANCE homepage (Win32 RADIANCE+GUI) http://radsite.lbl.gov/deskrad/ 

"Instant radiosity" Alexander Keller, SIGGRAPH 97.  (home page)

Watt: Chs. 7; 10

"Reflection-space image-based rendering" Cabral et al., SIGGRAPH 99.
 

"Deep shadow maps" Tom Lokovic and Eric Veach,  SIGGRAPH 00.
 

Tues/Thu Feb 11/13 - Shape Manipulation

Simplification, morphing, comparison & summary, fitting...

Feb 11: Tumblin: Overview (talk, R-simp, PolyZipper, ShapeDistrib)  
Feb 11: Cliff Rhyne:  Water Animation & Rendering (talk)

Feb 13: Pin Ren: Geometry Images (talk)

 Good starting points:

SIGGRAPH2002: find at http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2002.html

"Geometry Images"
Xianfeng Gu, Steven Gortler (Harvard University), Hugues Hoppe (Microsoft Research) 

DyRT: Dynamic Response Textures for Real Time Deformation Simulation with Graphics Hardware 
Doug L. James, Dinesh K. Pai (University of British Columbia) 

Watt: Ch. 2.5

"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 18/20 - Light fields & Approximations:

Visibility culling, shadow maps, lumigraphs...

Due date:
Feb 18: survey paper for grads

Feb 18: Overview (talk)  
Feb 18: Xing Hu: Polynomial Texture Maps
                                       (talk (used Tom Malzbender's slides))

Feb 20: Jonathan Bockelman (talk) Concentric Mosaics (Shum, He)
Feb 20: Matt McCrory (talk): Plenoptic Stitching (Aliaga, Carlbom)

Good starting points: 

"Light Field Rendering" Marc Levoy et al. SIGGRAPH96
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/light/  and an application: http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/lightfield-of-night/ 

Adaptive Shadow Maps: Randima Fernando,... pg 387, SIGGRAPH 2001 http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/pubs/2001/FFBG01.pdf 

Luebke's Visibility Culling Lecture: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs551dl/lecture17/  

"Tracing Ray Differentials" Homan Igehy, SIGGRAPH 1999

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/trd/

Watt: Chs. 9; 16.5

"The lumigraph" Steven Gortler et al., SIGGRAPH 96.

"Polynomial texture maps" Tom Malzbender et al., SIGGRAPH 01.

Tue/Thu Feb 25/27- Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR):

Ink, pencil, watercolor, oil, artistic style, video...

Feb 25: Tumblin: Overview (talk)  
Feb 25: Amit Wadehra: (talk): Walk-thru Illustrations... 

Feb 27: Pin Ren:(talk):DAB: Interactive Haptic Painting ...
Feb 27: Anthony Giangiorgi:(talk) Brush Model for 3D Painting ...

Good starting points: 

Craig Reynold's great NPR site:
 http://www.red3d.com/cwr/npr/

Mario Souza's NPR site http://www.cs.utah.edu/npr/papers.html  

SIGGRAPH2001: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2001.html; look for:
"Real-Time Hatching"
Emil Praun, Matthew Webb, Adam Finkelstein (Princeton University), Hugues Hoppe (Microsoft Research) 

Student's collection:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~rprobert/NPR1.htm 

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~bgooch/ITI 
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~raskar/Sil/ 

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~luebke/publications/pdf/npr.pdf 

"Escherization" Craig Kaplan et al., SIGGRAPH 00.

"Digital facial engraving" Victor Ostromoukhov, SIGGRAPH 99.

more...
 

Tue/Thu Mar 4/6 - Model acquisition & IBMR

light field capture, 3D scans, Image based modeling & rendering,

Mar 4:Tumblin: Overview (talk)
Mar 4: Pierce Groover (talk) (Modeling )Subdivision Surfaces
Mar 6: Justin Kai-Wei Wong (dropped)
Mar 6: Ankit Mohan (Talk) Debevec: Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes 

Watt: Ch. 16

"Image-Based Visual Hulls" Matusik et al., SIGGRAPH 00.  (project page, presentation)
 

Real-Time 3D Model Acquisition 
Szymon Rusinkiewicz (Princeton University), Olaf Hall-Holt, Marc Levoy (Stanford University)

Tue/Thu Mar 11/13 - Demos, Odds & Ends:

Project demos, makeup presentations,  etc.
Survey papers due Thursday Mar 13