Readings

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Lecture 1: Course Introduction

• Shirley et al., Chapter 1
• Optional:
  • Video: Moments That Changed The Movies: Jurassic Park

Lecture 2 & 3: Digital Drawing, Sampling, and Antialiasing

• Shirley et al., Chapters 2, 3, 8.1 - 8.3, 9
• Further Reading:
  • A Pixel is Not A Little Square, Alvy Ray Smith, 1995
  • A Video Illustration of Temporal Aliasing. by Jesse Mason
  • The Fourier Transform and It's Applications (Ch. 5) by B. Osgood (this is an outstanding reference)

Lecture 4: Transforms

• Shirley et al., Chapters 6, 7
• Further Reading:
  • Real Time Rendering -- Chapter 4. by T. Akenine Moller, E. Haines, N. Hoffman. Additional methods for 3D rotations, including quaternions.

Lecture 5: Texture Mapping

• Shirley et al., Chapter 11
• Further Reading:
  • Pyramidal Parametrics. by L. Williams (the original mipmapping paper from 1983!)
  • Reconstruction filters in computer graphics. by D. Mitchell and A. Netravali

Lecture 6: Rasterization Pipeline (+Visibility and Shading)

• Shirley et al., Chapter 18, recall Chapter 8.1-8.3, Chapter 10.

Lecture 7: Splines, Curves and Surfaces

• Shirley et al., Chapter 15.

Lecture 8,9: Geometry Processing (and Ray-Surface Intersection)

• Shirley et al., Chapter 4.4.
• Further Reading:
  • Smooth Subdivision Surfaces Based on Triangles, Charles Loop's MS Thesis, University of Utah, 1987.
  • Recursively defined B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological meshes. Original paper on Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces. 1978.
  • A survey of ray-surface intersection algorithms, by Pat Hanrahan. Chapter 3 in Glassner's book "An Introduction to Ray Tracing".
  • Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation

Lecture 10: Accelerating Ray-Surface Intersection

• No assigned reading.
• Further Reading:
  • Debugging Aggregates, Chapter 4.6 in PBRT. This may be helpful for debugging Assignment 3. Note: you should be able to access this book online while on campus with your Calnet login.
  • PBRT Chapters 4.3 - 4.4.

Lecture 11: Measuring Light: Radiometry and Photometry

• Shirley et al., Chapter 20.
• Steve Marschner's notes on radiometry.

Lecture 12: Monte Carlo Integration

• Shirley et al., Chapter 14.
• Further reading:
• Monte Carlo Integration, Chapter 13 and 14.4 in PBRT.

Lecture 13: Global Illumination

• Shirley et al., Chapter 24.
• Further reading:
• Chapter 15, PBRT.
• The Rendering Equation, J. Kajiya, 1986. The original!

Lecture 14: Reflection and Materials

• Shirley et al., Chapter 20.1.6 and 25.
• Further reading:
• Reflection Models, Chapter 8, PBRT.
• Predicting reflectance functions from complex surfaces, S. Westin, J. Arvo, K. Torrance.

Lecture 15,16,17: Cameras and Lenses I

• Marc Levoy's CS178 Applets on exposure.

Lecture 15,16,17: Cameras and Lenses II

• Kolb, Mitchell, Hanrahan (1995) A realistic camera model for computer graphics
• Marc Levoy's CS178 Applets on thin lenses, thin lens equation, depth of field, phase detection autofocus, and contrast autofocus.
• Further reading:
  • Canon introduction to Basics of Interchangeable Lenses.
  • Canon reference on Optical Terminology.
  • Canon chapter on Lens Technology.

Lecture 18, 19: Intro to Animation

• Shirley et al., Chapter 17.

Lecture 21,22: Introduction to Color Theory

• Shirley et al., Chapter 21
• Further reading:
  • Marc Levoy's CS178 Applets on color.