Schedule

For now consider this only as an overview of the topics covered and dates for assignments. A finislized schedule will be posted soon. The readings are refererences to the list given below. I have downloaded locally papers when available. Also note that all SIGGRAPH papers can be accessed using the ACM digital library.

date	topic	papers	work
Jan 8	introduction \| recap		paper pref. to 1/31
Jan 10	hardware trends \| APIs		game pref. to 1/31
Jan 12	--- cancelled ---
Jan 15	shadows	hardware	assignment out
Jan 17	game: TBD	hardware
Jan 22	avd. lighting	shadows
Jan 24	game: TBD	shadows	assignment due
Jan 29	-- no lecture --	adv. lighting	project description
Jan 31	-- no lecture --	adv. lighting	project meeting
Feb 5	PRT	ibl
Feb 7	project intro	ibl
Feb 12	interactive ray tracing	prt/irt
Feb 14		prt/irt
Feb 19	geometry simplification		project milestone I
Feb 21	project milestone I
Feb 26	procedural geometry	geom
Feb 28	game: spore	geom
Mar 4	intro to physics
Mar 6	project milestone II		project milestone II

Readings

hardware

W. Mark, R. Glanville, K. Akeley, M. Kilgard. Cg: A System for Programming Graphics Hardware in a C-like Language SIGGRAPH 2003. Presented by TBD.
A. Lefohn, J. Kniss, R. Strzodka, S. Sengupta, J. Owens. Glift : Generic, Efficient Random-Access GPU Data Structures ACM TOG 2006, 25(1). Presented by TBD.
D. Blythe. The DirectX 10 System SIGGRAPH 2006. Presented by TBD.

shadow mapping

T. Lokovic, E. Veach. Deep Shadow Maps SIGGRAPH 2000. Presented by TBD.
M. Stamminger, G. Drettakis. Perspective Shadow Maps SIGGRAPH 2002. Presented by TBD.
T. Aila, S. Laine. Alias-Free Shadow Maps EGSR 2004. Presented by TBD.

adv. lighting

P. Debevec. Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Real Scenes SIGGRAPH 1998. Presented by TBD.
R. Ramamoorthi, P. Hanrahan. Frequency Space Environment Map Rendering SIGGRAPH 2002. Presented by TBD.
M. Bunnel. Dynamic Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting GPU Gems II, 2005. Presented by TBD.

prt/irt

P. Sloan, J. Kautz, J. Snider. Precomputed Radiance Transfer ... SIGGRAPH 2002. Presented by TBD.
W. Mark et al. Razor: An Architecture for Dynamic Multiresolution Ray Tracing TOGxx. Presented by TBD.
R. Overbeck, R. Ramamoorthi, W. Mark. A Real-time Beam Tracer with Application to Exact Soft Shadows EGSR, 2007. Presented by TBD.

geom

M. Garland, P. Heckbert. Surface Simpliﬁcation Using Quadric Error Metrics SIGGRAPH 1997. Presented by TBD.
O. Deussen et al. Realistic Modeling and Rendering of Plant Ecosystems SIGGRAPH 1998. Presented by TBD.
P. Mueller et al. Procedural Modeling of Buildings SIGGRAPH 2006. Presented by TBD.