The weights of each component will be the following:
Week |
Due |
Weight |
2 | Tentative Topic | 0% |
3 | Detailed Plan | 10% |
5 | Preliminary Literature Survey - Due 10/17 | 5% |
7 | Final Project Plan - Due 10/31 | 5% |
8 | Final Literature Survey - Due 11/3 | 10% |
9 | Paper First Draft, Preliminary Implementation Results - Due 11/10 | 10% |
12 | Initial Results, Paper 2nd Draft - Due 11/26 | 10% |
15 | Final Paper | 20% |
15 | Project Demo | 30% |
Class |
Date |
Topic |
1 | Sept. 3 | Introduction, Course Structure, Topics |
2 | Sept. 8 | Introduction to Procedural Techniques |
3 | Sept. 10 | Introduction to Advanced Modeling |
4-5 | Sept. 12 | Procedural Texturing |
6 | Sept. 17 | Volume Modeling I |
7 | Sept. 19 | Fractal Modeling I |
8 | Sept. 24 | Grammar-Based Modeling I | Sept. | BRL CAD - Lee Butler |
9 | ||
9 | Sept. 26 | Particle Systems I |
10 | Sept. 29 | No Class |
11 | Oct. 1 | Implicit Surfaces |
12 | Oct. 6 | Modeling with Particle Systems |
13 | Oct. 8 | Introduction to Atmospheric Illumination & Scattering |
14 | Oct. 13 | Snthetic Topiary - presented by Hua Yaun |
15 | Oct. 15 | Procedurally generated Shapes for InvoVis - presented by Jim Kukla |
16 | Oct. 20 | The Artificial Life of Plants - presented by Yu Ju |
17 | Oct. 22 | K. Sims Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics Technical Report, Thinking Machines Corporation, - presented by Ted Bedwell |
18 | Oct. 27 | Lightfield Rendering (Levoy & Hanrahan) - presented by Pradyut Panda |
19 | Oct. 29 | Hodgins, J.H. & Brogan, D.C. (1994). Robot Herds: Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics. - Presented by Eric Chang. |
20 | Nov. 3 | Rendering Fur (Kajiya & Kay) - presented by Lee Butler |
22 | Nov. 10 | Quicktime VR (Eric Chen) - presented by Pradyut Panda |
24 | Nov. 17 | - |
25-28 | More Student Presentations of Papers from the Literature | |
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