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. (These are spring 2021 lectures, to which we will make minor modifications as the quarter proceeds).
| Week | Date | Topic | PPT | YouTube | |
| Week 1 | Apr 2 | Introduction, Basic Raytracing (Handout: Whitted paper Haines chapter) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 4 | More Raytracing, Acceleration Structures (Handout: Hanrahan, Shirley chapters) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Week 2 | Apr 9 | Illumination and Reflection (Handout: Cohen chapter Bala chapter | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 11 | Global Illumination and Rendering Equation (Handout: Kajiya paper) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Apr 15 | Assignment 1 Due April 15 Monday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 3 | Apr 16 | Monte Carlo Integration (Handout: Veach Thesis (Ch 2), Old Stanford Course (part 2) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 18 | Details for Direct Lighting, Specularities | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Week 4 | Apr 23 | Monte Carlo Path Tracing, Global Illumination (Handout: Old Siggraph Course Notes, Cook 84, Kajiya 86) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 25 | Details for Indirect Lighting | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Apr 25 | Assignment 2 Due April 25 Thursday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 5 | Apr 30 | (Multiple) Importance Sampling (Handout: Veach 95) | PPT | YouTube | |
| May 2 | BRDFs (Handout: BRDFs, Torrance-Sparrow, Cook-Torrance Oren-Nayar Lawrence Walter) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| May 6 | Assignment 3 Due May 7 Tuesday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 6 | May 7 | Sampling and Antialiasing (Handouts: FVDFH, Cook86 MC Visibility) | PPT | ||
| May 9 | Advances in High Quality Rendering | PPT | |||
| Week 7 | May14 | Monte Carlo Denoising | PPT | ||
| May16 | Environment and Texture Maps (Handouts: Debevec: History Light Probes PBRT Sampling SIS Paper) | PPT | |||
| May20 | Assignment 4 Due May 20 Monday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 8 | May21 | Volumetric Rendering | PPT | ||
| May23 | Precomputed Rendering (Handouts: Sloan 02 Ng 03 Ng 04 PRT Survey) | PPT | |||
| Week 9 | May28 | Image-Based Rendering and Light Fields (Handout: SIGGRAPH 00 Course Notes) | PPT | ||
| May29 | Project proposals with milestone Due May 29 Wednesday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| May30 | Real-Time Rendering 1 (Handouts: Heidrich Cabral Shadow Mapping) | PPT | |||
| Week 10 | Jun 4 | Real-Time Rendering 2 | PPT | ||
| Jun 6 | Appearance Modeling and Rendering | ||||
| Finals Week | Jun 11 | Final projects due June 11 Tuesday, 11:59 PM |