Schedule
The (tentative) course schedule is as follows. Please note that all the lectures are posted immediately, although we may of course make modifications later.
| Week | Date | Topic | PPT | YouTube | |
| Week 1 | Mar31 | Introduction, Basic Raytracing (Handout: Whitted paper Haines chapter) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 2 | More Raytracing, Acceleration Structures (Handout: Hanrahan, Shirley chapters) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Week 2 | Apr 7 | Illumination and Reflection (Handout: Cohen chapter Bala chapter | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 9 | Global Illumination and Rendering Equation (Handout: Kajiya paper) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Apr 13 | Assignment 1 Due April 13 Monday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 3 | Apr 14 | Monte Carlo Integration (Handout: Veach Thesis (Ch 2), Old Stanford Course (part 2) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 16 | Details for Direct Lighting, Specularities | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Week 4 | Apr 21 | Monte Carlo Path Tracing, Global Illumination (Handout: Old Siggraph Course Notes, Cook 84, Kajiya 86) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 23 | Details for Indirect Lighting | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Apr 24 | Assignment 2 Due April 24 Thursday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 5 | Apr 28 | (Multiple) Importance Sampling | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 30 | BRDFs (Handout: BRDFs, Torrance-Sparrow, Cook-Torrance Oren-Nayar Lawrence Walter) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Week 6 | May 5 | Sampling and Antialiasing (Handouts: FVDFH, Cook86 MC Visibility) | PPT | ||
| May 7 | Advances in High Quality Rendering | PPT | |||
| May 7 | Assignment 3 Due May 7 Thursday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 7 | May12 | Monte Carlo Denoising | PPT | ||
| May14 | Environment and Texture Maps (Handouts: Debevec: History Light Probes PBRT Sampling SIS Paper) | PPT | |||
| May15 | Assignment 4 Due May 18 Monday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 8 | May19 | Volumetric Rendering | PPT | ||
| May21 | Precomputed Rendering (Handouts: Sloan 02 Ng 03 Ng 04 PRT Survey) | PPT | |||
| Week 9 | May26 | Image-Based Rendering and Light Fields (Handout: SIGGRAPH 00 Course Notes) | PPT | ||
| May27 | Project proposals with milestone Due May 27 Wednesday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| May28 | Real-Time Rendering 1 (Handouts: Heidrich Cabral Shadow Mapping) | PPT | |||
| Week 10 | Jun 2 | Real-Time Rendering 2 | PPT | ||
| Jun 4 | Appearance Modeling and Rendering | ||||
| Finals Week | Jun 9 | Final projects due June 9 Tuesday, 11:59 PM |