CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques

Spring Quarter, 1996
Instructor: Marc Levoy

Welcome to the home page of CS 348B. This page is the repository for all lecture notes, class handouts, information on programming assignments, and other useful information regarding the course. The URL of this page is http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-96

Places

• Class: Gates B01 (a.k.a. the HP auditorium, in the basement), Tue/Thu, 9:30 - 10:45
• Home Page: http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-96/
• Course directory on leland: /usr/class/cs348b
• Anonymous ftp: www-graphics.stanford.edu, directory pub/courses/cs348b.
• Newsgroup: su.class.cs348b
• Teaching assistant: cs348btas@graphics.stanford.edu
• Handouts: in a cabinet in Gates Hall, wing 3B, copy room (room 377)
• SITN: Live broadcast on channel E1.

Lecture notes

• April 2 - What is rendering? (HO #4)
  
• April 4 - Basics of ray tracing (HO #5)
  
• April 9 - Sampling theory (part I) (HO #9)
  
• April 11 - Sampling theory (part II) (HO #11)
  
• April 16 - Practical anti-aliasing I: regular and stochastic supersampling (HO #13)
  
• April 18 - Practical anti-aliasing II: adaptive supersampling, analytical filtering (HO #14)
  
• April 23 - Texture mapping I: synthesis, parameterization, resampling (HO #17)
  
• April 25 - Texture mapping II: prefiltering, multipass algorithms (HO #18)
  
• April 30 - Light transport and the rendering equation (HO #20)
  
• May 2 - Local illumination I: radiometry, illumination (HO #21)
  
• May 7 - Local illumination II: reflection (HO #23)
  
• May 9 - Local illumination III: current research topics
  
• May 14 - Spectral representations for rendering (HO #24)
  
• May 16 - Global illumination I: shadow algorithms (HO #26)
  
• May 21 - Global illumination II: distribution ray tracing (HO #29)
  
• May 23 - Global illumination III: radiosity formulation (HO #30)
  
• May 28 - Global illumination IV: radiosity solution methods (HO #31)
  
• May 30 (1st half) - Global illumination V: current research topics (HO #32)
  
• May 30 (2nd half) - Participating media, volume rendering (HO #33)
• June 4 - Is rendering a solved problem? (HO #35)

Other handouts

• Course outline (HO #1)
• Student questionnaire (for latecomers and SITN students) (HO #2)
• Open problems in computer graphics (HO #3)
• Sampling and reconstruction (HO #6)
• Programming assignment #1 - Basic ray tracer (HO #7)
• A Simple Viewing Geometry, by Andrew Glassner,
  from Graphics Gems I (HO #8)
• Supersampling (HO #10)
• Jittered sampilng (HO #12)
• Written assignment #1 - sampling and antialiasing (HO #15)
• Resampling (HO #16)
• Programming assignment #2 - Accelerated ray tracer (HO #19)
• Written assignment #2 - texture and local illumination (HO #25)
• Written assignment #1 solutions (HO #27)
• Programming assignment #3 - Extending your ray tracer (HO #28)
• Written assignment #2 solutions (HO #34)

Other materials

• Assigned readings (updated the evening before each class)
• Image demonstrating supersampling patterns and explanation
• Image demonstrating adaptive sampling patterns and explanation
• Programming project #1 sample images

Other useful links

• Other courses in graphics
• Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory
• Computer Science Department
• Stanford University