CS 434 Advanced Graphics and Gaming
Date |
Chapter |
Lecture topics |
Instructor |
M Jan 13 |
GPU shaders |
Administrative affairs Interactive Graphics Pipeline: 3D scenes modeled with triangles, transformations, basic shading and lighting, texture mapping, graphical user interface (OpenGL, GLUT, GLUI) |
Popescu |
W Jan 15 |
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Interactive Graphics Pipeline continued GPU programming via shaders: CPU-GPU interface, basics of a GPU high-level shading language |
Popescu |
F Jan 17 |
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Continued |
Popescu |
M Jan 20 |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
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W Jan 22 |
Global Illumination |
Soft shadows |
Popescu |
F Jan 24 |
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Continued A1 assigned: GPU soft-shadow rendering via ray tracing |
Popescu |
M Jan 27 |
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Radiosity |
Aliaga |
W Jan 29 |
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Continued |
Aliaga |
F Jan 31 |
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Continued |
Aliaga |
M Feb 3 |
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Light transport |
Aliaga |
W Feb 5 |
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Continued |
Aliaga |
F Feb 7 |
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Global illumination decomposition A1 due A2 assigned: Global Illumination |
Aliaga |
M Feb 10 |
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Specular reflections |
Popescu |
W Feb 12 |
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Continued |
Popescu |
F Feb 14 |
Modeling |
Texture synthesis |
Popescu |
M Feb 17 |
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Continued |
Popescu |
W Feb 19 |
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3D acquisition: stereo, 3D reconstruction, photometric stereo |
Aliaga |
F Feb 21 |
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Continued A2 due |
Aliaga |
M Feb 24 |
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Project topic brainstorming A3 assigned: project proposal |
Aliaga + Popescu |
W Feb 26 |
Modeling |
Procedural and inverse procedural modeling |
Aliaga |
F Feb 28 |
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Continued |
Aliaga |
M Mar 3 |
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Continued |
Aliaga |
W Mar 5 |
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Panoramic imaging: acquisition, registration, construction, rendering |
Popescu |
F Mar 7 |
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Continued |
Popescu |
M Mar 10 |
Midterm |
A3 due: project proposal Review for midterm |
Aliaga |
W Mar 12 |
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Review for midterm |
Popescu |
Th Mar 13 |
Midterm 8:00pm-10:00pm LWSN 1106 |
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F Mar 14 |
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Cancelled to compensate for evening midterm (1/2) A3: project feedback emailed |
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M Mar 17 |
SPRING BREAK |
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W Mar 19 |
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F Mar 21 |
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M Mar 24 |
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Collision Detection |
Aliaga |
W Mar 26 |
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Midterm solutions |
Aliaga + Popescu |
F Mar 28 |
TBD |
TBD |
Aliaga |
M Mar 31 |
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Mid-way project presentations |
Aliaga + Popescu |
W Apr 2 |
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Continued |
Aliaga + Popescu |
F Apr 4 |
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Continued |
Aliaga + Popescu |
M Apr 7 |
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Cancelled to compensate for evening midterm (2/2) |
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W Apr 9 |
Advanced topics |
Image Generalization through Camera Model Design -
Non-uniform
sampling rate |
Popescu |
F Apr 11 |
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Animation |
Hassan |
M Apr 14 |
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Scientific Visualization |
Tricoche |
W Apr 16 |
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Robots and vision |
Culurciello |
F Apr 18 |
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Image Generalization through Camera Model Design -
Multiple
viewpoints |
Popescu |
M Apr 21 |
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Gesture-based interfaces |
Wachs |
W Apr 23 |
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Fluid Simulation |
Benes |
F Apr 25 |
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Computer Human Interaction |
Elmqvist |
M Apr 28 |
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Final project presentations |
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W Apr 30 |
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Final project presentations |
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F May 2 |
Final project presentations |
Aliaga + Popescu |