These images show several of the final projects for the Spring 2004 "CSE168 Rendering Algorithms" class with Henrik Wann Jensen as the instructor. The students in the class were asked to render a realistic object or scene of their own choosing, and the images were judged by an external panel of experts (the best student image would be rewarded with a trip to SIGGRAPH 2004). The winners and honorable mentions were selected based on the quality of their rendered images and the technical difficulty.

The judges were:

• Lawrence Liberty (Sony Computer Entertainment) - Thanks for donating a PS2 + games as the first prize
• Cyrus Jam (Industrial Light & Magic) - Last years winner
• Craig Donner (TA for the class)

Grand Prize
	Wojciech Jarosz's "Cluttered Desk" Wojciech modeled his desk at home, and applied several rendering techniques including irradiance caching, efficient sampling (Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo techniques), and depth-of-field to simulate the appearance of his desk. Wojciech won a trip to SIGGRAPH 2004 for his effort. More...

First Prize
	Siddhartha Saha's "Chess in the Morning" Siddhartha implemented photon mapping to create an image with nice soft global illumination lighting. He also used bump-mapping to give the table its distinctive look. Siddhartha won a PlayStation 2 for his image. More...

Honorable Mentions
	Alex Kululgowski's "Glasslich" Alex implemented photon mapping and procedural textures to generate caustics underneath a skeletal hand. He also used Beer's Law to simulate the attenuation of light through glass. More...

Sunny Chow's rendering of the Salk Institute Sunny created his own model of the Salk Institute from scratch, and then used photon mapping and procedural textures to make it look realistic. More...

Jefferson Ng's "Shadowblots" Jefferson investigated the dispersion properties of prisms and lenses to create interesting caustic patterns. More...

Geoff Romer's rendering of a sunset Geoff used ray-marching to simulate the scattering of light in clouds during a sunset. More...

Jack Quinn's Joshua Trees Jack wrote his own tree generater, before using displacement-mapping, bump-mapping and procedural texturing to reproduce the famous Joshua tree. More...

Stephan Steinbach's "Deco Blue" Stephan took a different route from other students, choosing to write a candied paint shader that gave a nice look to his character. More...

Some of the other participants:
Cameraon Chrisman Shin-Idishi	Sunny Diao Graftals	Diem Vu A little bit of everything