1: Mon Mar 04

• Course overview
• Ray tracer stage 1 (due Mon Mar 11)
  • UML layout
• C++, Framebuffer, OBJ loader, PNG
  • C++ intro
  • Vector code
  • Framebuffer code
  • PNG saving code
  • OBJ loading code
  • Code outline
• Read: 3.2, 3.3

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2: Tue Mar 05

• Rays, Hitpoints, Ray generator
  • Basis Vectors
  • Camera Parameters
  • Ray Generation
• Read: 4.1, 4.3, 4.6

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3: Thu Mar 07

• Sphere Intersection
• Read: 4.4.1

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4: Fri Mar 08

• Sphere Intersection

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5: Mon Mar 11

• Triangle Intersection
• Ray tracer stage 2 (due Mon Mar 18)
• Read: 4.4.2
• Due: * Ray tracer stage 1

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6: Tue Mar 12

• Materials, Normals

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7: Thu Mar 14

• Ray tracer: Lights, Ambient lighting
• Read: 4.5.3

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8: Fri Mar 15

• Ray tracer: Diffuse, Phong lighting
• Read: 4.5.1, 4.5.2

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9: Mon Mar 18

• Ray tracer: Shadows, Reflection, Transmission
• Distributed Ray Tracing (due Fri Mar 22)
• Paper review
• Ray tracer stage 3 (due Mon Mar 25)
• Read: 4.7, 4.8, 13.1
• Due: * Ray tracer stage 2

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10: Tue Mar 19

• Primitive lists
• AABB
• Read: 12.3, 12.3.1

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11: Thu Mar 21

• Ray tracer: Centroids, Splitting, Sorting
• Read: 12.3.2

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12: Fri Mar 22

• BVH tree construction
• Due: * Distributed Ray Tracing

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13: Mon Mar 25

• Ray tracer: Tree traversal
• Ray tracer stage 4 (due Mon Apr 01)
• Frameless rendering (due Fri Mar 29)
• Due: * Ray tracer stage 3

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14: Tue Mar 26

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15: Thu Mar 28

• Example review and presentation

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16: Fri Mar 29

• Basics
  • Sampling
  • Reconstruction
  • 'Distributed' ray tracing
• Papers-basic ray techniques
• Read: 9.4
• Read: 13.4
• Due: * Frameless rendering

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17: Mon Apr 01

• Research paper - summary (due Mon Apr 22)
• Due: * Ray tracer stage 4

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18: Tue Apr 02

• Global illumination
  • Path tracing
  • Photon mapping
• Papers-global illumination
• Read: 23.1-23.2

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19: Thu Apr 04

• Ray tracing improvements
  • Ambient occlusion
  • Radiosity
  • Photon mapping
  • Path tracing
  • Frameless rendering
  • Papers-frameless

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20: Mon Apr 15

• Acceleration
  • Vector processing
  • GPU processing
  • Cache optimization
  • Hierarchies
  • Quiz
  • Papers-hierarchy
  • Papers-packets
• Research paper - presentation (due Tue Apr 23)

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21: Tue Apr 16

• Research paper work time
• Project (due Fri May 17)

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22: Thu Apr 18

• Research paper work time
• Design 1
• Project selection

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23: Fri Apr 19

• Class status
• Research papers
• Discussion of course
• Advanced topics

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24: Mon Apr 22

• Collisions
• Collision papers
• Due: * Research paper - summary

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25: Tue Apr 23

• Papers
• Summaries
• Presentation review
• Due: * Research paper - presentation

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26: Thu Apr 25

• Ben, Rebecca

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27: Fri Apr 26

• Jacob, Eugene

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28: Mon Apr 29

• Mike, Zach
• Ian if there is time
• Project weekly report

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29: Tue Apr 30

• Project work time

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30: Thu May 02

• Project work time

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31: Fri May 03

• Visibility
  • Visibility papers
• Project work time

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32: Mon May 06

• Project work time
• Terrain generation
• Review Quake 3 engine
• Voxels
• Weird high performance hacks
• Project weekly report

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33: Tue May 07

• Project work time
• Cloth simulation
• Matrix multiplication

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34: Thu May 09

• Project work time
• Fluid simulation
• Weather simulation

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35: Fri May 10

• Project work time
• Sound simulation

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36: Mon May 13

• Project work time
• Scene streaming vs. loading
• Project weekly report

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37: Tue May 14

• Project work time
• PS5 architecture

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38: Thu May 16

• Visibility
• N-body simulation
• Project work time

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39: Fri May 17

• Fast inverse square root
• Due: * Project

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40: Mon May 20

• Project presentation

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