CS 7650: Realistic Image Synthesis

Fall 2006

Instructors

Peter Shirley (shirley@cs.utah.edu, 3126 MEB)
TA: Dave Edwards (edwards@cs.utah.edu, 4106 MEB)

Office hours will be by appointment.

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Mailing List

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Resources

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Schedule

Week Date Topic Homework Due
1 W Aug 23 Light, rejection MC
2 W Aug 30 Colorimetry sensor simulation
3 W Sep 6 Colorimetry 2 sensor simulation 2
4 W Sep 13 Picking random variables (Dave) Primitive 3D scene
5 W Sep 20 Importance sampling 1 pinhole camera and motion blur
6 W Sep 27 Importance sampling 2 thin lens camera
7 W Oct 4 Fresnel equations Importance sampling
8 W Oct 11 BRDF (Dave) Cornell Box
9 W Oct 18 Survey of BRDF models Fresnel equations
10 W Oct 25 participating media Beer-Lambert Law
11 W Nov 1 Radiometry Participating media
12 W Nov 8 Avoiding ray marching Subsurface scattering
13 W Nov 15 Adjoint tracing Heyney-Greenstein Phase Function
14 W Nov 22 Discussion Rayliegh Phase Function
15 W Nov 29 Other Monte Carlo methods Cool effect or project
16 W Dec 6 Adjoint photons