Computer Graphics Programming III

Grading Scale

Late Work

I do not accept late work. If you miss a deadline, you will not earn the points for that activity. There are no make-up opportunities. If you are unable to attend class on the due date for a assignment, please submit it by e-mail before class.

Attendance and Participation

If you are not in class for an in-class exercise, you cannot earn those points. If you miss an entire class, you are responsible for obtaining copies of handouts and other classroom materials from your classmates.

Lab Policies

Leave food and drink outside the class. Disciplinary action will be taken toward any student found using the equipment in an inappropriate manner, taking cell phone calls or surfing the web. Disruptive, disrespectful or rude behavior will not be tolerated.

Plagiarism

Presenting the writings, images or paraphrased ideas of another as ones own, is strictly prohibited at the Art Institute of Portland. Properly documented excerpts from others works, when they are limited to an appropriate amount of the total length of a student's paper, are permissible when used to support a researched argument.

ADA Statement

It is AiPD policy not to discriminate against qualified students with a documented disability in its educational programs, activities or services. If you have a disability-related need for adjustments or other accommodations in this class, contact Student Support and Disabilities Coordinator, Daynia Flynn at ext. 4836 <djflynn@aii.edu>

Week 1 ( April 3^th, 2013 )

Lecture topics:

• Course road-map

• Introduce shadows

  • Importance of shadows

  • Planar shadows

  • Soft shadows

• Shadow textures

• Projective texturing overview

Homework assignments:

• Programming assignment #1: Shadow textures. Part 1 is due 4/11. Part 2 is due 4/24.

• Read:

  Eric Haines, "Soft Planar Shadows Using Plateaus." journal of graphics tools , vol. 6 , no. 1 , pages 19-27. 2001. http://erich.realtimerendering.com/plateaus.pdf

  Everitt, Cass; Rege, Ashu; and Cebnoyan, Cem, Hardware Shadow Mapping. NVIDIA. Decemeber 2001. http://developer.nvidia.com/object/hwshadowmap_paper.html

Week 2 ( April 10^th )

Quiz #1.DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Shadow maps, part 1

  • Implementation over-view

  • Comparison to shadow textures

  • Problems / shortcomings

  • Percentage closer filtering

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  R. Fernando, "Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows." In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005. 2005. http://developer.download.nvidia.com/shaderlibrary/docs/shadow_PCSS.pdf

  W. Reeves, D. Salesin, and R. Cook, "Rendering Antialiased Shadows with Depth Maps." In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '87. 1987. http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ShadowMaps/paper.pdf

Week 3 ( April 17^th, 2012 )

Quiz #2.DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Shadow maps, part 2

  • Percentage closer soft shadows (PCSS)

  • Reducing shadow map aliasing

    • Perspective shadow maps (PSMs)

    • Parallel split shadow maps (PSSMs)

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  Brabec, Stefan and Annen, Thomas and Seidel, Hans-Peter, "Shadow Mapping for Hemispherical and Omnidirectional Light Sources." In Advances in Modelling, Animation and Rendering (Proceedings Computer Graphics International 2002) , pages 397-408. Springer, 2002. http://www.thomasannen.com/publications.html

  Aaron E. Lefohn AND Shubhabrata Sengupta AND John D. Owens, "Resolution Matched Shadow Maps." ACM Transactions on Graphics , vol. 26 , no. 4 , pages 20:1--20:17. ACM, 2007. http://www.idav.ucdavis.edu/publications/print_pub?pub_id=919

Week 4 ( April 24^th )

Lecture topics:

• Stencil buffer refresher

• Introduction to shadow volumes

  • Z-pass

  • Z-fail

  • Generating shadow volume geometry

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  Annen, Thomas and Dong, Zhao and Mertens, Tom and Bekaert, Philippe and Seidel, Hans-Peter and Kautz, Jan, "Real-time, all-frequency shadows in dynamic scenes." In SIGGRAPH '08: ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers , pages 1--8. ACM, 2008. http://www.thomasannen.com/publications.html

  Stefan Brabec and Thomas Annen and Hans-Peter Seidel, "Practical Shadow Mapping." journal of graphics tools , vol. 7 , no. 4 , pages 9-18. 2002. http://www.thomasannen.com/publications.html

  Everitt, Cass and Kilgard, Mark, Practical and Robust Stenciled Shadow Volumes for Hardware-Accelerated Rendering. NVIDIA. May 2001. http://developer.nvidia.com/object/robust_shadow_volumes.html

Week 5 ( May 1^nd, 2012 )

Quiz #3. DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Shadow volumes, part 2

  • Fixing Z-pass and Z-fail with ZP+ and ++ZP

  • Soft shadows using shadow volumes

  • Hardware extensions that optimize shadow volumes:

    • Depth clamping

    • Depth bounds testing

• Shadow maps, part 3 (time permitting)

  • Reducing shadow map aliasing

    • Resolution matched shadow maps

Homework assignments:

• Programming assignment #2: Shadow maps. Due 5/15.

• Read to recap this week:

  Hornus, Samuel; Hoberock, Jared; Lefebvre, Sylvain; Hart, John C., "ZP+: Correct Z-Pass Stencil Shadows." In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games. ACM Press, April 2005. http://artis.imag.fr/Publications/2005/HHLH05/

  Brandon Lloyd and Jeremy Wend and Naga K. Govindaraju and Dinesh Manocha, "CC Shadow Volumes." In Proceedings of the 15th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques, Norköping, Sweden, June 21-23, 2004 , pages 197-206. Eurographics Association, 2004. http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/CCSV/ccsvEGSR04.pdf

  Timo Aila and Tomas Akenine-Moeller, "A Hierarchical Shadow Volume Algorithm." In Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2004 , pages 15-23. Eurographics Association, August 2004. http://graphics.cs.lth.se/research/shadows/

• Read to prepare for week:

  Iones, Andrey and Krupkin, Anton and Sbert, Mateu and Zhukov, Sergey, "Fast, Realistic Lighting for Video Games." IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications , vol. 23 , pages 54--64. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003. http://ima.udg.edu/iiia/GGG/UsersDocs/mateu/obscurances.pdf

Week 6 ( May 8^th, 2012 )

Quiz #4.DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Ambient occlusion

  • Generating AO factors using ray-tracing

  • Approximation in real-time

  • Screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO) introduction

Homework assignments:

• Read to review this week:

  Pharr, Matt and Green, Simon. "Ambient Occlusion" in Fernando, Randima (editor) GPU Gems, Addison Wesley, 2004. http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch17.html

  Bunnel, Michael. "Dynamic Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting" in Fernando, Randima (editor) GPU Gems 2, Addison Wesley, 2005. http://download.nvidia.com/developer/GPU_Gems_2/GPU_Gems2_ch14.pdf

• Read to prepare for week:

  Tobias Ritschel and Thorsten Grosch and Hans-Peter Seidel, "{Approximating Dynamic Global Illumination in Screen Space}." In Proceedings ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games. 2009. http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~ritschel/SSDO/

Week 7 ( May 15^th, 2012 )

Lecture topics:

• NO CLASS THIS WEEK.

Week 8 ( May 22^rd, 2012 )

Quiz #5. DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Bilateral filtering

• Fixing problems with SSAO:

  • Horizon split AO

  • Multi-layer dual-resolution SSAO

Homework assignments:

• Programming assignment #3: SSAO. Due at the final 6/12.

• Read:

  Choudhury, Prasun and Tumblin, Jack, "The trilateral filter for high contrast images and meshes." In Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics workshop on Rendering , pages 186--196. Eurographics Association, 2003. http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~jet/publications.html

Week 9 ( May 29^th, 2012 )

Quiz #6.DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• High dynamic range (HDR) rendering

Homework assignments:

• Read to prepare for next week:

  Shishkovtsov, Oles. "Deferred Shading in S.T.A.L.K.E.R." in Fernando, Randima (editor) GPU Gems 2, Addison Wesley, 2005. http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter09.html

Week 10 ( June 5^th, 2012 )

Quiz #7.DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Deferred shading

Homework assignments:

• Prepare for final.

Week 11 ( June 12^th, 2012 )

FINAL EXAM - 5:30PM.DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!