CS348b: Lecture Schedule
Links to PDF files for each lecture's slides will be made available here a day or so before or after the corresponding class meeting. Note, however, that the slides are not self-contained: a fair number of topics in the course will primarily be explained on the blackboard, so the slides are more useful to refresh your memory of what was covered in class than to teach the topics in the first place.
April 1 The Goals of Rendering
April 3 Ray Tracing I: Basic Algorithms
April 8 Ray Tracing II: Acceleration Techniques (Assignment 1 handed out)
April 10 Ray Tracing System Design and Overview of lrt
April 15 Radiometry I: Foundations
April 17 Cameras,
Film, and the Imaging Pipeline
April 22Radiometry II�� (Assignment 1 due)
April 24 Reflection Models I
April 29 Reflection Models II
May 1 Texture and Materials
May 6 Light Transport and the
Rendering Equation
May 8
May 13
May 15
May 20 Monte Carlo Integration IV:
Solving The Rendering Equation--irradiance caching
and Metropolis sampling
May 22 Participating Media
& Volumetric Scattering (Assignment 3 and Final Project Proposal both due)
May 27 Sampling and
Reconstruction I: Theory & 2D Case (supporting images for
the lecture; everything else will be on the blackboard.)
May 29 Sampling and
Reconstruction II: Higher-Dimensional Sampling
June 3 Sampling and
Reconstruction III
June 10 3pm Rendering
Competition Judging