This
course will cover advanced topics in computer graphics: advanced modeling
techniques, procedural modeling techniques, procedural animation techniques,
volumetric modeling techniques, and advanced rendering techniques. The
format for the course will be group discussions of papers and some lectures
by the instructor and outside experts in the field. The grading will be
based on participation in class, a class project, and a paper. Class projects
may be done individually or in groups of two. Projects have the potential
of leading to work that forms the basis of a Master's project or Ph.D.
research topic. A partial list of topics includes the following:
The weights of each component will be the following:
Week |
Due |
Weight |
| 2 | Tentative Topic | 0% |
| 3 | Detailed Plan | 10% |
| 5 | Preliminary Literature Survey - Due 10/17 | 5% |
| 7 | Final Project Plan - Due 10/31 | 5% |
| 8 | Final Literature Survey - Due 11/3 | 10% |
| 9 | Paper First Draft, Preliminary Implementation Results - Due 11/10 | 10% |
| 12 | Initial Results, Paper 2nd Draft - Due 11/26 | 10% |
| 15 | Final Paper | 20% |
| 15 | Project Demo | 30% |
Class |
Date |
Topic |
| 1 | Sept. 3 | Introduction, Course Structure, Topics |
| 2 | Sept. 8 | Introduction to Procedural Techniques |
| 3 | Sept. 10 | Introduction to Advanced Modeling |
| 4-5 | Sept. 12 | Procedural Texturing |
| 6 | Sept. 17 | Volume Modeling I |
| 7 | Sept. 19 | Fractal Modeling I |
| 8 | Sept. 24 | Grammar-Based Modeling I | Sept. | BRL CAD - Lee Butler |
| 9 | ||
| 9 | Sept. 26 | Particle Systems I |
| 10 | Sept. 29 | No Class |
| 11 | Oct. 1 | Implicit Surfaces |
| 12 | Oct. 6 | Modeling with Particle Systems |
| 13 | Oct. 8 | Introduction to Atmospheric Illumination & Scattering |
| 14 | Oct. 13 | Snthetic Topiary - presented by Hua Yaun |
| 15 | Oct. 15 | Procedurally generated Shapes for InvoVis - presented by Jim Kukla |
| 16 | Oct. 20 | The Artificial Life of Plants - presented by Yu Ju |
| 17 | Oct. 22 | K. Sims Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics Technical Report, Thinking Machines Corporation, - presented by Ted Bedwell |
| 18 | Oct. 27 | Lightfield Rendering (Levoy & Hanrahan) - presented by Pradyut Panda |
| 19 | Oct. 29 | Hodgins, J.H. & Brogan, D.C. (1994). Robot Herds: Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics. - Presented by Eric Chang. |
| 20 | Nov. 3 | Rendering Fur (Kajiya & Kay) - presented by Lee Butler |
| 22 | Nov. 10 | Quicktime VR (Eric Chen) - presented by Pradyut Panda |
| 24 | Nov. 17 | - |
| 25-28 | More Student Presentations of Papers from the Literature | |
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