Schedule

The schedule below lists the reading material, due dates for assignments, and topics covered. Due dates for assignment also appear on Canvas. All dates/times are in Eastern time (Hanover, NH).

For convenience, you can also find/download all the slides linked from the schedule below in this Dropbox folder.

DateReadingDueTopic
Week 1: Introduction
Sep 13Syllabus; Ch. 13; PBR Ch. 2Introduction; linear algebra review
Sep 15 A0Darts base code introduction
Sep 16RTIOW, all chapters Ray tracing
Sep 17RTIOW, all chapters Ray tracing – Shading
Week 2: Meshes & Textures
Sep 20RTTNW Ch. 1, 3; PBR Ch. 3.63.6.1 Meshes & acceleration structures
Sep 22PBR Ch. 4A1Meshes & acceleration structures
Sep 23  X-hour
Sep 24RTTNW Ch. 48 Texture mapping
Week 3: Radiometry & Monte Carlo
Sep 27RTTNW Ch. 48 Environment Mapping; Procedural Texturing
Sep 29PBR Ch. 5 Radiometry; Reflection Equation
Sep 30  X-hour - Debugging
Oct 1RTTROYL; PBR Ch. 13Quiz 1Monte Carlo I
Week 4: Monte Carlo & Direct Illumination
Oct 4RTTROYL; PBR Ch. 13A2Monte Carlo II
Oct 6PBR Ch. 13 Monte Carlo III: Importance sampling
Oct 7RTTROYL; PBR Ch. 8 Lecture instead of X-hour:
Direct Illumination I
Oct 8  X-hour instead of lecture
Week 5: Rendering Equation, Path Tracing, & Microfacet Models
Oct 11  X-hour instead of lecture
Oct 12 A3 
Oct 13PBR Ch. 13, Ch. 14 Direct Illumination II;
Multiple Importance Sampling
Oct 14RTTROYL; PBR Ch. 14.414.5 Lecture instead of X-hour:
Multiple Importance Sampling;
Rendering Equation & Path Tracing
Oct 15RTTROYL; PBR Ch. 8.4, Ch. 14.1 Microfacet Models
Week 6: Participating Media
Oct 18  Quiz review
Oct 20RTTNW Ch. 9; PBR Ch. 15 Participating Media
Oct 21  X-hour
Oct 22RTTNW Ch. 9; PBR Ch. 15A4Participating Media
Week 7: Participating Media, Bidirectional Methods, Photon Mapping
Oct 25RTTNW Ch. 9; PBR Ch. 15 Ch. 16ProposalParticipating Media MARK Photon Mapping
Oct 27PBR Ch. 16 Light Tracing & Bidirectional Path Tracing
Oct 28  X-hour
Oct 29PBR Ch. 16 Photon Mapping
Week 8: Volumetric Photon Mapping, Many Light Methods
Nov 1PBR Ch. 16A5Photon Mapping
Nov 3RTTNW Ch. 9; PBR Ch. 15; Ch. 16 Volumetric Photon Mapping
Nov 4  X-hour
Nov 5  Many Light Methods
Week 9: Stratification & Misc.
Nov 8PBR Ch. 7.37.7 Stratified Sampling
Nov 10PBR Ch. 7 Orthogonal Array Sampling
Nov 11  X-hour
Nov 12  Misc
Week 10: Misc.
Nov 15PBR Ch. 15.5 Subsurface Scattering
Nov 18 A6Final projects due
Nov 19  "Final Exam" (Rendering Competition)