Advanced Image Synthesis

Final Presentations

Room Change!! TSRB 222 (second floor)

Wednesday, May 4
1:00 - Szymon Swiston
1:20 - Kevin Morris
1:40 - Gaurav Chandra
2:00 - Rafal Zboinski
2:20 - BREAK
2:40 - Andy Campbell
3:00 - Topraj Gurung
3:20 - Mike White and Mitch Halpin

Friday, May 6
12:40 - Dave Lillethun and Huamin Wang
1:20 - Derrick Karimi
1:40 - Joy Shieh
2:00 - Nate Berglund
2:20 - BREAK
2:40 - Alex Powell
3:00 - Nipun Kwatra
3:20 - Jerry Del Gaudio
3:40 - Chris Hambridge

CS 7490, Instructor: Greg Turk

Cg example code to start you on warmup exercise.

RenderMan code for windows can be found at ~turk/public/rman_win. (Doesn't yet work.)

Useful Graphics Links

Information about programming in Cg.

Archive of RenderMan documentation.
The RenderMan repository.

On-line graphics resources from ACM TOG.
Pointers to many graphics links.
Research labs in computer graphics.

On-line SIGGRAPH papers for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
Videos of SIGGRAPH presentations for 2001 and 2002.
List of all sorts of graphics publications (including earlier SIGGRAPH).

The POVRAY site.
The Rayshade public-domain ray tracer.
Archive of issues of the Ray Tracing News.

OpenGL resources.
Links to many OpenGL sites.
Real-time rendering resources.

OpenGL Programming Guide:
http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/
http://rush3d.com/reference/opengl-redbook-1.1/

OpenGL Reference Manual:
http://rush3d.com/reference/opengl-bluebook-1.0/

Huge list of non-photorealistic rendering resources.

Schedule of Classes

Feb 14
Texture Synthesis on Surface
(Greg) Feb 16
Compositing Digital Images
(Greg) Feb 18
Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Images (Kevin)

Feb 21
REYES Rendering Architecture
(Greg) Feb 23
Hierarchical Z-buffer Visibility
(Andy) Feb 25
Customizable Reflectance Model
(Greg)

Feb 28
Radiometry
(Greg) Mar 2
Radiometry
(Greg) Mar 4
Radiometry
(Greg)

Mar 7
Distributed Ray Tracing
(David) Mar 9
The Rendering Equation
(Nate) Mar 11
Photon Mapping 1
(Nipun)

Mar 14
Photon Mapping 2
(Alex) Mar 16
Radiosity 1
(Greg) Mar 18
Radiosity 2
(Greg)

Mar 21
Spring Break (no class) Mar 23
Spring Break (no class) Mar 25
Spring Break (no class)

Mar 28
Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware
(Greg) Mar 30
Practical Model for Subsurface Light
(Jerry) Apr 1
No Class

Apr 4
Light Field Rendering
(Greg) Apr 6
Hypertexture
(Derrick) Apr 8
Shadow Silhouette Maps
(Rafal)

Apr 11
Surfaces from Volumes
(Michael) Apr 13
Concentric Mosaics
(Greg) Apr 15
Multiple Center-of-Projection Images (Gaurav)

Apr 18
Rendering Fur
(Topraj) Apr 20
Painterly Rendering
(Mitch) Apr 22
Art-Based Fur, Grass, Trees
(Darren)

Apr 25
Orientable Pen-and-Ink
(Joy) Apr 27
Illustrating Smooth Surface
(Christopher) Apr 29
TBA
(Huamin)

Feb 14 Texture Synthesis on Surface (Greg)	Feb 16 Compositing Digital Images (Greg)	Feb 18 Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Images (Kevin)
Feb 21 REYES Rendering Architecture (Greg)	Feb 23 Hierarchical Z-buffer Visibility (Andy)	Feb 25 Customizable Reflectance Model (Greg)
Feb 28 Radiometry (Greg)	Mar 2 Radiometry (Greg)	Mar 4 Radiometry (Greg)
Mar 7 Distributed Ray Tracing (David)	Mar 9 The Rendering Equation (Nate)	Mar 11 Photon Mapping 1 (Nipun)
Mar 14 Photon Mapping 2 (Alex)	Mar 16 Radiosity 1 (Greg)	Mar 18 Radiosity 2 (Greg)
Mar 21 Spring Break (no class)	Mar 23 Spring Break (no class)	Mar 25 Spring Break (no class)
Mar 28 Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware (Greg)	Mar 30 Practical Model for Subsurface Light (Jerry)	Apr 1 No Class
Apr 4 Light Field Rendering (Greg)	Apr 6 Hypertexture (Derrick)	Apr 8 Shadow Silhouette Maps (Rafal)
Apr 11 Surfaces from Volumes (Michael)	Apr 13 Concentric Mosaics (Greg)	Apr 15 Multiple Center-of-Projection Images (Gaurav)
Apr 18 Rendering Fur (Topraj)	Apr 20 Painterly Rendering (Mitch)	Apr 22 Art-Based Fur, Grass, Trees (Darren)
Apr 25 Orientable Pen-and-Ink (Joy)	Apr 27 Illustrating Smooth Surface (Christopher)	Apr 29 TBA (Huamin)