CS684: Advanced Ray Tracing

Winter 1998, 9:55-11:30am Mondays, 3151 MEB

Instructor

Peter Shirley (shirley@cs) Office hours: by appointment, 4154 MEB.

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Schedule

Homework is due at class time in the form of a web page.  In addition, there is a project due the last day of finals at noon
where you should compare a real and simulated scene!!!
 
Lecture  Date  Topic  Homework Due  Handouts 
1  1/5  Math, Monte Carlo  
2  1/12 Color homework 1 Change of coordinates, xyz response curves 
3  1/19 3D math homework 2 Camera parameters . html version 
4  1/26  Cameras homework 3
5  2/2  Efficiency structures homework 4
6  2/9  Specular reflection and transmission  homework 5
7  2/18 (W)  Direct lighting of Lambertian materials homework 6 Cornell box data, 
8  2/23  Indirect lighting homework 7 Macbeth spectral data , Macbeth geometry data, 
9  3/2  Non-diffuse BRDF  homework 8
10  3/9 FINAL (in class)   

Homework of registered participants

Grading

Homework : 70%
Final : 30%

Late policy: five percent per hour.

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Last update: Dec 18, 1997