Instructor

Henrik Wann Jensen
Office hours: Tuesdays noon-1pm

Teaching Assistant

None

Lectures

Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:50am, CSE 4140

Book

Peter Shirley et al., "Fundamentals of Computer Graphics", 2nd or later edition, AK Peters 2005 [Errata]

Useful book on geometry, ray intersections, transformations etc.
Philip Schneider and David Eberly, "Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics", Morgan Kaufmann 2002

More advanced text on global illumination and photon mapping
Henrik Wann Jensen, "Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping, AK Peters, 2001

Slightly dated, but still a very comprehensive overview of image synthesis
Andrew Glassner, "Principles of digital image synthesis", Morgan Kaufmann, 1995

Course Objective

This course covers algorithms for computer graphics rendering of photorealistic images. We will cover the ray tracing algorithm, shading models, acceleration structures, and global illumination algorithms. There will be a number of assignments focusing on implementing a ray tracer capable of rendering realistic images of fairly complex scenes.

Contents

The ray tracing algorithm, camera models, geometry intersection, geometry tessellation, acceleration structures, shading models, texturing, bump mapping, sampling and filtering, and advanced topics such as Monte Carlo ray tracing.

Grading

This is class is for 4 units.

Assignments

The programming assignments use the Miro base code. You may need these files if you compile miro on windows. You need OpenGL and GLUT to compile Miro. To download the base code, you will need to use the UCSD Proxy Server, or one of the ACS managed PCs.

Assignment 0
Assignment 1

• assignment1.cpp
• assignment1.h
• Perlin.cpp
• Perlin.h
• Worley.cpp
• Worley.h
• PFMLoader.cpp
• PFMLoader.h

• assignment2.cpp
• assignment2.h

• photonmap.cc

Models for the assignments

Useful Resources

Ray Tracing News
Ray Tracing Document (raytrace.pdf)

Schedule