MW 5:00 - 6:00 LCR
Course number: 684-1
Index # 4500
No audits. All students must take the course for credit.
Grading:
Program results 50%
Homework 25%
Final 25%
Late policy will be motivational.
Text: Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis by Cohen and Wallace [10]
The goal of the course is to be able to write and understand a hierarchical radiosity algorithm. The course starts with the use of a Monte Carlo ray tracer and builds off of that.
| Week | Monday | Due | Wednesday | Due |
| 1 | Basis Functions | nothing | Projection onto Mesh | nothing |
| 2 | Norms and Operators | HW 1 | Display Issues | |
| 3 | Error | HW 2 | Implementation and Discretization | PA 1 |
| 4 | Form Factors | HW 3 | Computing Form Factors | PA 2 |
| 5 | Matrix Solutions | HW 4 | Links and Gauss-Seidel | PA 3 |
| 6 | Hierarchical Methods | HW 5 | Create to Epsilon | PA 4 |
| 7 | Multigridding | HW 6 | Refinement | PA 5 |
| 8 | View Independent Reconstruction | HW 7 | View Dependent Reconstruction | PA 6 |
| 9 | Memorial Day <No Class> | nothing | <No Class> | nothing |
| 10 | Importance | nothing | Final <In Class> | nothing |
| finals | . | . | . | Projects due Wed June 10th |
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