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Lecture Schedule

Lectures are Monday/Wednesday/Friday 1-2pm in Dempster 301.

Image Basics, Triangle Rasterization

Jan 4 - Jan 6

Textbook 3rd edition:

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 (skim now, use as reference later)
• Section 3.1 (skip 3.1.2 for now)
• Section 3.2 (skip 3.2.2 for now)
• Section 3.3
• Subsection 3.4.1
• Section 8.1.2

Textbook 2nd edition:

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 (skim now, use as reference later)
• Section 3.1
• Section 3.3
• Section 3.8
• Section 3.6

Barycentric Coordinates, Hidden Surface Elimination, Z-Buffer

Jan 9 - Jan 11

Textbook 3rd edition:

• Section 2.7
• Section 8.1

Textbook 2nd edition:

• Section 2.11
• Section 8.2.1

Coordinate Systems, Affine Transforms

Jan 13 - 20

Textbook both editions:

• Most of Chapter 6 - feel free to skip Shearing, SVD decomposition; we'll return to transforming normals later on.

The text doesn't mention the LookAt transform, but you can instead refer to the OpenGL man page for gluLookAt.

Perspective Projection

Jan 20 - 27

Textbook both editions:

• Chapter 7 is the place to look, but the text's conventions are nonstandard: we will end up going with the OpenGL set up which leads to slightly different matrices (especially what happens to the z coordinate).

Clipping, Transforming Normals, Perspective-Correct Interpolation, Culling

Jan 30 - Feb 1

Textbook 2nd edition:

• Sections 12.1 - 12.4
• Section 6.2.2
• 11.4.1 (perspective-correct barycentric coordinates)

Textbook 3rd edition:

• Part of chapter 6 (transforming normals)
• Parts of chapter 8 (clipping, backface elimination)
• Part of chapter 11 dealing with perspective-correct interpolation

The text doesn't really discuss culling beyond backface elimination, but lectures will go through more.

Hierarchical Modeling

Textbook 2nd edition:

• 13.3 (Scene Graphs)

Textbook 3rd edition:

• Chapter 12 - Scene Graphs

Basic Shading, A Hardware Pipeline

Textbook 2nd edition:

• 9.1 Diffuse Shading
• 12.1-4

Textbook 3rd edition:

• 10.1 Diffuse Shading
• Chapter 8 - Clipping etc.

Raytracing, Acceleration Structures

Textbook 2nd edition:

• Chapter 10, particularly 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.8, 10.9

Textbook 3rd edition:

• Chapter 4, particularly 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7
• 13.2
• 12.3

More Shading

Textbook 2nd edition:

• 10.6 (reflection), 9.2 (Phong), just skim 19.1.6 (BRDF)

Textbook 3rd edition:

• 4.8 (reflection), 10.2 (Phong), just skim 20.1 (BRDF)

Example glossy shader code for use with assignment renderer: shader_glossy.h and shader_glossy.cpp.

Global Illumination

Textbook 2nd edition:

• Parts of 10.11, just skim 14.3, skim 23.2

Textbook 3rd edition:

• Parts of 13.4, just skim 14.3, skim 24.2

Textures and Signal Processing

Textbook 2nd edition:

• Chapter 11, particularly 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6
• Parts of Chapter 4, such as 4.1, 4.4.2, but it's not a good match with lectures

Textbook 3rd edition:

• Chapter 11, particularly 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
• Parts of Chapter 9, such as 9.1, bits of 9.4

Colour

Textbook 2nd edition:

• Parts of chapter 20: most of 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.6

Textbook 3rd edition:

• Parts of Chapter 21: particularly 21.1, 21.2

Extra Material

We also looked a bit at topics such as Nonphotorealistic Rendering (NPR) and physics-based animation / deformable objects. This will not be on the exam.