Digital Image Synthesis

Digital Image Synthesis, Fall 2006

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09/21 overview
09/28 core and geometry
10/05 shape and aceleration
10/19 color and radiometry
10/26 camera
sampling
11/02 realistic camera
11/09 sampling and film
11/16 reflection and materials
11/23 textures
11/30 lights and Monte Carlo
12/07 Monte Carlo II
12/14 surface integrator
12/21 participating media
12/28 real-time relighting
01/04 hard shadows
01/11 soft shadows

Lectures

Date	Topic	slides	readings/related links

2006/09/21	overview	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Pixar Physially based rendering Literate Programming Paul Heckbert, A Minimal Ray Tracer, Graphics Gems IV, 1994.
2006/09/28	intro to pbrt geometry and transforms	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapters 1 and 2 of pbrt renderer/pbrt.cpp, core/scene., integrators/whitted.cpp, core/geometry., core/transform.*
2006/10/05	shapes accelerators	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapters 3 and 4 of pbrt core/shape., shapes/, accelerators/*
2006/10/19	accelerators color and radiometry	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapter 5 of pbrt core/color.*
2006/10/26	camera sampling	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapters 6 and 7 of pbrt core/camera., camera/
2006/11/02	realistic camera	pdf	Craig Kolb, Don Mitchell and Pat Hanrahan, A Realistic Camera Model for Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH 1995.
2006/11/09	sampling film	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapters 7 and 8 of pbrt core/sampling., samplers/, filters/, core/film., core/tonemap.h, tonemaps/*
2006/11/16	Reflections Materials Spectrum-based rendering	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf pdf	Chapters 9 and 10 of pbrt core/reflection., core/material., materials/*
2006/11/23	Textures	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapter 11 of pbrt core/texture., core/mipmap., textures/*
2006/11/30	Lights Monte Carlo	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapters 13 and 14 of pbrt core/light., lights/ E. Veach, Introduction to Monte Carlo Method, Stanford course note 1997.
2006/12/07	Monte Carlo II	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapter 15 of pbrt core/reflection., lights/
2006/12/14	Surface Integrator	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chapter 16 of pbrt core/transport., integrators/
2006/12/21	Participating Media	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf SIGGRAPH 2005	Chapters 12 and 17 of pbrt core/volume., volume/ B. Sun, R. Ramamoorthi, S. G. Narasimhan, S. K. Nayar, A Practical Analytic Single Scattering Model for Real Time Rendering, SIGGRAPH 2005. S. Narasimhan, M. Gupta, C. Donner, R. Rammamoorthi, S. Nayar and H. W. Jensen, Acquiring Scattering Properties of Participating Media by Dilution, SIGGRAPH 2006.
2006/12/28	Real-Time Relighting	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	R. Ramamoorthi and P. Hanrahan, An Efficient Representation for Irradiance Environment Maps, SIGGRAPH 2001. P.-P. Sloan, J. Kautz and J. Snyder, Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Real-Time Rendering in Dynamic, Low-Frequency Lighting Environment, SIGGRAPH 2002. R. Ng, R. Ramamoorthi and P. Hanrahan, All-Frequency Shadows Using Non-linear Wavelet Lighting Approximation, SIGGRAPH 2003. R. Ng, R. Ramamoorthi and P. Hanrahan, Triple Product Wavelet Integrals for All-Frequency Relighting, SIGGRAPH 2004.
2007/01/04	Hard Shadows	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	M. Stamminger and G. Drettakis, Perspective Shadow Maps, SIGGRAPH 2002. P. Sen, M. Cammarano and P. Hanrahan, Shadow Silhouette Maps, SIGGRAPH 2003.
2007/01/11	Soft Shadows	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	M. Agrawala, R. Ramamoorthi, A. Heirich and L. Moll, Efficient Image-Based Methods for Rendering Soft Shadows, SIGGRAPH 2000. U. Assarsson and T. Akenine-Moller, A Geometry-based Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm using Graphics Hardware, SIGGRAPH 2003. Per H. Christensen, Julian Fong, David Laur and Dana Batali Ray Tracing for the Movie Cars, Pixar TR, 2006.