CS 5620 Fall 2009

Instructor: Kavita Bala

Lecture

Date

Topic

Week 1

1

Aug. 27

Introduction

Week 2

2

Sep. 1

GPU Pipeline I

3

Sep. 3

GPU Pipeline II

Week 3

4

Sep. 8

Programmable Shading

5

Sep. 10

Transformations

Week 4

6

Sep. 15

Shading Languages: OpenGL/HLSL

7

Sep. 17

Hierarchical Transforms

Week 5

8

Sep. 22

Shading Models

PA 1 out

9

Sep. 24

Textures I

Week 6

10

Sep. 29

Textures II

11

Oct. 1

Textures III

Week 7

12

Oct. 6

Textures IV/Shadows I

PA 2 out

PA 1 due (Oct 7, 11:59pm)

13

Oct. 8

Shadows II

Week 8

Oct. 13

Fall Break

14

Oct. 15

Shadows III

Week 9

15

Oct. 20

Shadows IV/Final Project

PA 3 out

PA 2 due (Oct 22, 11:59pm)�

16

Oct. 22

Acceleration Structures I

Week 10

17

Oct. 27

Acceleration Structures II

18

Oct. 29

Using Acceleration Structures

Week 11

19

Nov. 3

Modeling I

20

Nov. 5

Modeling II

PA 3 and Project Proposal due (Nov 4, 11:59pm)

Week 12

21

Nov. 10

Modeling III

22

Nov. 12

Prelim review? TBA

Week 13

23

Nov. 17

Animation I

24

Nov. 19

Animation II

Prelim
PA 4 out

Week 14

25

Nov. 24

Interactive Ray Tracing/Research

Nov. 26

Thanksgiving Break

Week 15

26

Dec. 1

User Interfaces

27

Dec. 3

Conclusions

Project updates

PA 4 due (Dec 2nd), 11:59pm

Dec. 11

Final project demos