15-862: Rendering

This graduate course on rendering (image synthesis in computer graphics) will meet Tues. & Thurs. 10:30-11:50, in Wean 5304, starting 19 Sept 95.

Course Description

Project Results

• Automated Image Registration and Parameter Refinement for Image Mosaics, by Ari Rapkin.
• Simulating Soft Shadows with Graphics Workstation Hardware by Michael Herf.

Course Notes

• Notes on filtering (note 3), aliasing (5), and antialiasing (6) from 15-463.
• Notes on image warping (4) and texture mapping (17) from 15-463.
• Texture mapping/image warping references.
• Projective Mappings for Image Warping (Postscript, 5 pp.)
• Image mosaicing (fun links here!)
• View interpolation (fun links here!)
• Notes on visibility, ray tracing, and radiosity (10-13,16,18) from 15-463.
• Wavelets for Rendering.
• Survey of Surface Simplification Algorithms notes.
• Lessons about Rendering R&D notes.

Reading

• For 28 Sep.: Image Mosaicing for Tele-Reality Applications, Richard Szeliski, DEC Cambridge Research Lab, TR 94/2, 1994.
• For 12 Oct.: Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation, Philippe Lacroute and Marc Levoy, SIGGRAPH '94.
• FYI, a thorough survey of visibility algorithms: Visibility Algorithms in Image Synthesis, Charles Grant, PhD thesis, U. of California, Davis, 1992, 188 pages (some figures missing).
• For derivation of the global illumination equation, Introduction to Global Illumination, Paul Heckbert, SIGGRAPH '92 Global Illumination Course, Vol. 18, July 1992.
• For 9 Nov., Wavelets for Computer Graphics: A Primer. Eric J. Stollnitz, Tony D. DeRose, and David H. Salesin. TR 94-09-11, Dept. of CS&E, U. of Washington, Sept. 1994. Other info.
• For 16 Nov., A Ray Tracing Solution to Diffuse Interreflection, by Greg Ward, Francis Rubinstein and Robert Clear, SIGGRAPH 88. Papers and code for the RADIANCE system.
• For 21 Nov., Survey of Polygonal Surface Simplification Algorithms, Paul Heckbert and Michael Garland, CS Dept., Carnegie Mellon U., to appear. Our software and other papers.

Assignments

• p1, image mosaicing: part 1, part 2.
• p2 volume rendering.
• project topic ideas, presentations & papers in early Dec.

Miscellaneous Tips

• For tips on how to configure your Web browser to display pictures at 24 bits per pixel, see Haeberli's tips on mailcap files and xv; and my current mailcap file; and general documentation on: .mailcap files and MIME | .mailcap for netscape on SGI | MIME types.

Paul Heckbert, ph@cs.cmu.edu