CS5625 Interactive Computer Graphics

Cornell University, Spring 2016
T/Th 10:10am, Gates G01

Instructor: Steve Marschner
office hours: T 2:00–3:00pm, Th 1:15–2:15pm, Gates 313 [canceled 2/2]

Course Staff

• Eston Schweickart, TA office hour: F 3:00–4:00pm, Gates 345
• Pramook Khungurn, TA office hour: W 2:00–3:00pm, Gates 345 [starting 2/10]
• Kate Salesin, UTA office hour: TBA
• Kristen Crasto, UTA office hour: F 11:00am–noon, Gates G15

Schedule

date		topic	reading	assignments
28	Jan	intro slides
2	Feb	shading and shading frames slides	Lengyel
4	Feb	detail mapping slides		PA1 out
9	Feb	microfacet models slides
11	Feb	mesh animation slides slides	Kavan, SIGGRAPH skinning course I.1-2	PA1 due 2/12
16	Feb	—February Break—
18	Feb	mesh animation | signal processing slides		PA2 out
23	Feb	signal processing | antialiasing	[Green 2007]
25	Feb	sampling theory slides		PA2 due 2/26, PA3 out
1	Mar	texture antialiasing slides	Williams doi cms Greene & Heckbert CGA 1986 doi cms
3	Mar	texture antialiasing	McCormack et al. 1999 doi cms	PA3 due 3/4, PA4 out
8	Mar	normal map antialiasing | OpenGL framebuffers	Olano & Baker 2010 web
10	Mar	illumination math		PA4 due 3/11, PA5 out
15	Mar	deferred shading slides
17	Mar	shadow maps slides	Williams SIGGRAPH 1978 doi cms Kilgard slides opengl-tutorial.org tutorial	PA5 due 3/18, PA6 out
22	Mar	soft shadows | shadow volumes slides	Reeves SIGGRAPH 1987 doi cms Fernando 2005 sketch Eisemann et al. 2010 course notes
24	Mar	shadow volumes | final projects slides	Crow SIGGRAPH 1977 doi cms McGuire GPU Gems web Stich et al. GPU Gems 3 web	PA6 due 3/25, PA7 out
29	Mar	—Spring Break—
31	Mar	—Spring Break—
5	Apr	ambient occlusion slides	Mittring SIGGRAPH 2007 course notes web cms Chapman tutorial McGuire et al. HPG 2011 doi cms
7	Apr	real-time physics 1	Witkin and Baraff 2001 course notes	PA7 due 4/8, PA8 out
12	Apr	real-time physics 2		proposals due 4/13
14	Apr	spherical harmonic lighting slides	Sloan et al. 2002 doi cms Sloan on SH tricks web cms	PA8 due 4/15
19	Apr	color science
21	Apr	midterm
21	Apr	midterm
26	Apr	subdivision
28	Apr
3	May	tone mapping | CS 5625 framework slides
5	May	GPU architecture
10	May	milestone presentations

Projects

During the first two-thirds of the semester there will be mini-projects due approximately weekly. Later in the semester there may be one or two written assignments. Some assignments are individual and some may be done in pairs.

Exam

There will be an in-class midterm on or around April 21.

The exam is closed book, but you're allowed to bring one letter-sized piece of paper with writing on both sides, to avoid the need to memorize things.

About CS5625

Questions, help, discussion: The instructor and TAs are available to answer questions, advise on projects, or just to discuss interesting topics related to the class at office hours and by appointment as needed. For electronic communication we are using Piazza (handy link also at the top of this page).

Academic integrity: We assume the work you hand in is your own, and the results you hand in are generated by your program. You're welcome to read whatever you want to learn what you need to do the work, but we do expect you to build your own implementations of the methods we are studying. If you're ever in doubt, just include a citation in your code or report indicating where some idea came from, whether it be a classmate, a web site, another piece of software, or anything—this always maintains your honesty, whether the source was used in a good way or not. The principle is that an assignment is an academic document, like a journal article. When you turn it in, you are claiming that everything in it is your original idea (or is original to you and your partner, if you're handing in as a pair) unless you cite a source for it.

School can be stressful, and your coursework and other factors can put you under a lot of pressure, but that is never a reason for dishonesty. If you feel you can't complete the work on your own, come talk to the professor or the TAs, or your advisor, and we can help you figure out what to do. Think before you hand in!

Clear-cut cases of dishonesty will result in failing the course.

For more information see Cornell's Code of Academic Integrity.

Collaboration: You are welcome (encouraged, even) to discuss projects among yourselves in general terms. But when it comes to writing up the homeworks or implementing the projects, you need to be working alone (or only with your partner if you are doing a project as a pair). In particular, it's never OK for you to see another student's homework writeup or another team's program code, and certainly never OK to copy parts of one person's or team's writeup, code, or results into another's, even if the general solution was worked out together.

Books

Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines, and Naty Hoffman, Real-Time Rendering This book is a compendium of good, reliable information that covers many basic and not-so-basic real-time graphics techniques. The third edition is available as an ebook via the library (link). Search for "Real-Time Rendering". Or authenticate at the link above, and then directly go to this link

Marschner and Shirley, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics This book is a good source for a lot of the basic computer graphics material, and goes at a bit gentler pace than the book above. Many of you may own a copy of the third edition from CS4620.

Supplemental Books and Materials:

• OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook by David Wolff
• Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice by Mike Bailey and Steve Cunningham
• GPU Pro 2 Edited by Wolfgang Engel
• OpenGL "Red Book" --- *the* reference for OpenGL programming
  
• Nate Robbin's OpenGL "tutors" programs
• 3-D computer graphics: a mathematical introduction with OpenGL, Volume 385,  By Samuel R. Buss
• Andrew S. Glassner, An Introduction to ray tracing, 1989