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 | 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 23 | Assignment 2 Due April 23 Thursday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 5 | Apr 28 | (Multiple) Importance Sampling (Handout: Veach 95) | PPT | YouTube | |
| Apr 30 | BRDFs (Handout: BRDFs, Torrance-Sparrow, Cook-Torrance Oren-Nayar Lawrence Walter) | PPT | YouTube | ||
| May 5 | Assignment 3 Due May 5 Tuesday, 11:59 PM | ||||
| Week 6 | May 5 | Sampling and Antialiasing (Handouts: FVDFH, Cook86 MC Visibility) | PPT | ||
| May 7 | Advances in High Quality Rendering | PPT | |||
| Week 7 | May12 | Monte Carlo Denoising | PPT | ||
| May14 | Environment and Texture Maps (Handouts: Debevec: History Light Probes PBRT Sampling SIS Paper) | PPT | |||
| May18 | 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 28 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 | Advanced topics, Appearance Modeling and Rendering | ||||
| Finals Week | Jun 9 | Final projects due June 9 Tuesday, 11:59 PM |