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 1 | Introduction, Basic Raytracing (Handout: Whitted paper Haines chapter) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 3 | More Raytracing, Acceleration Structures (Handout: Hanrahan, Shirley chapters) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Week 2 | Apr 8 | Illumination and Reflection (Handout: Cohen chapter Bala chapter | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 10 | Global Illumination and Rendering Equation (Handout: Kajiya paper) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Apr 14 | Assignment 1 Due April 14 Monday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 3 | Apr 15 | Monte Carlo Integration (Handout: Veach Thesis (Ch 2), Old Stanford Course (part 2) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 17 | Details for Direct Lighting, Specularities | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Week 4 | Apr 22 | Monte Carlo Path Tracing, Global Illumination (Handout: Old Siggraph Course Notes, Cook 84, Kajiya 86) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 24 | Details for Indirect Lighting | PPT | YouTube | ||
| Apr 24 | Assignment 2 Due April 24 Thursday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 5 | Apr 29 | (Multiple) Importance Sampling (Handout: Veach 95) | PPT | YouTube | |
| May 1 | BRDFs (Handout: BRDFs, Torrance-Sparrow, Cook-Torrance Oren-Nayar Lawrence Walter) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| May 6 | Assignment 3 Due May 6 Tuesday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 6 | May 6 | Sampling and Antialiasing (Handouts: FVDFH, Cook86 MC Visibility) | PPT | ||
| May 8 | Advances in High Quality Rendering | PPT | |||
| Week 7 | May13 | Monte Carlo Denoising | PPT | ||
| May15 | Environment and Texture Maps (Handouts: Debevec: History Light Probes PBRT Sampling SIS Paper) | PPT | |||
| May19 | Assignment 4 Due May 19 Monday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 8 | May20 | Volumetric Rendering | PPT | ||
| May22 | Precomputed Rendering (Handouts: Sloan 02 Ng 03 Ng 04 PRT Survey) | PPT | |||
| Week 9 | May27 | Image-Based Rendering and Light Fields (Handout: SIGGRAPH 00 Course Notes) | PPT | ||
| May28 | Project proposals with milestone Due May 28 Wednesday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| May29 | Real-Time Rendering 1 (Handouts: Heidrich Cabral Shadow Mapping) | PPT | |||
| Week 10 | Jun 3 | Real-Time Rendering 2 | PPT | ||
| Jun 5 | Appearance Modeling and Rendering | ||||
| Finals Week | Jun 10 | Final projects due June 10 Tuesday, 11:59 PM |