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| Kartic Subr | Krzysztof Grykiel |
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Week 9
| 1 | Implement Blinn-Phong shading for rays that intersect objects. |
| 2 | Trace a shadow ray from the shaded point to point light sources. |
| 3 | Modify your Image class to also read a ppm texture. Implement texture maps for sphere, cylinder and triangle. |
| 4 | Replicate (not necessarily pixel-perfect) the sample scenes provided. |
Week 8
| 1 | Tutorial on CW2 this week. Please attend. Check on Piazza if you want to attend a different tutorial. |
| 2 | Hopefully you have designed your raytracer structure. Start with the simplest goal of raytracing a sphere at the origin using an orthographic camera on the -ve Z axis looking at the origin. Then repeat it for a virtual pinhole model with perspective. |
| 3 | Write auxiliary classes for image and 3D model reading/writing. Test them separately from the raytracer. |
Week 7
| 1 | Coursework 2 is now published! Please read the specs and begin planning ... |
Week 6
| 1 | Final touches to the augmented result. Launch rendering of animation |
| 2 | Note the change of room for next week's presentations -- G.159 - MacLaren Stuart Room - Old College. |
| 3 | Sign up for a presentation slot. Click here ---> CGR2024CW1 (first-come-first-serve). |
Week 5
| 1 | You should be able to complete the exercises in Coursework 1 by the end of this week. |
| 2 | Design the scene for your animation for CW1. Rendering the frames might take some time, so better not to leave this for the last day. |
| 3 | Catch up with the reading task (to be posted after Thursday's lecture) |
Week 4
| 1 | Please attend Tutorial 1 this week. The TA will describe how these exercises may be solved. You may also ask him general questions about CW1. |
Week 3
| 1 | Coursework 1 for CGR is now published. Please read the specs carefully. |
| 2 | Aim to complete the first 2 exercise questions by Wed and the third exercise by the end of this week. |
| 3 | Plan your scene and write down ideas for animation and virtual objects to insert. |
Week 2
| 1 | Download and install blender! |
| 2 | Use an online tutorial such as this to explore blender. What interesting shape can you make? |
Week 1
| - | First lecture on Thursday 19th Sep 2024! |
| 1 | Set up your Large language model (LLM) of choice. It is recommended that you use the free version of OpenAI's ChatGPT by signing up. Alternatively, you may use Edinburgh Uni's very own ELM, Llama or any other open source LLM at your own risk. We have only tested the feasibility of the coursework with ChatGPT. |
| 2 | It is also recommended that you sign up for a free account for co-pilot which is another tool that can help with C++ code generation. If you plan to use this tool, it is strongly recommended that you use the free (student) edition rather than the trial which will expire midway through the course. For this, sign up to GitHub's global campus using your university email and student id. First, your application will be approved and then you will have access to the benefits (including co-pilot). |
| 3 | Both the above steps could take some time for approval. So, please do this as soon as possible. |
Week 0
| 1 | Register for the course. |
| 2 | Check that you have access on Learn to the course's Piazza page. |
| 3 | Check the course website. |
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| Kartic Subr | Krzysztof Grykiel |
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Course guidelines
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| # | Lecture Title | Date | Slides | Reading |
| 1 | Introduction | 19/09 | .pptx .pdf | |
| 2 | Imaging: radiometry and photometry | 24/09 | .pptx .pdf | PBR Ch 5.4 |
| 3 | Cameras | 26/09 | .pptx .pdf | |
| 4 | Basic Modelling | 01/10 | .pptx .pdf | |
| 5 | Raytracing: introduction | 03/10 | .pptx | |
| 6 | Raytracing: advanced | 08/10 | .pptx .pdf | |
| 7 | Numerical integration | 12/10 | .pptx code (.zip) | |
| 8 | Monte Carlo Integration | 15/10 | .pptx code (.m) | notes, textbook |
| 9 | Light transport: path tracing I | 17/10 | .pptx | |
| 10 | Light transport: path tracing II | 22/10 | ||
| 11 | C++ Programming with GPT and co-pilot | 24/10 | .pptx | Notes, Code |
| Presentations: CW1 | 29/10 | |||
| Presentations: CW1 | 31/10 | |||
| Presentations: CW1 | 01/11 | |||
| 12 | Sampling and reconstruction | 05/11 | .pptx | |
| 13 | Sampling II | 07/11 | .pptx | sampling patterns |
| 14 | Volume Scattering | 12/11 | .pptx | scattering course |
| 15 | Fast rendering pipelines I | 14/11 | .pptx | 1 2 3 4 |
| 16 | Machine Learning in Computer Graphics | 19/11 | .pptx | |
| 17 | Virtual Reality, conclusion and goodbyes | 21/11 | .pptx | |
| Presentations: CW2 | 26/11 | |||
| Presentations: CW2 | 28/11 | |||
| Presentations: CW2 | 29/11 |
* tentative topic-list (above) may be adapted to accommodate dynamic requirements.
| # | topic | issued | due | files |
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| 1 | Augmented Reality | 30-09-2024 | 12pm (noon) 25-10-2024 | |
| 2 | Raytracing | 30-10-2024 | 12pm (noon) 25-11-2024 | .pdf .json files |
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Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys & Wenzel Jakob,
Physically Based Rendering (Third edition)The book is currently freely available online. |
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Peter Shirley, Trevor David Black & Steve Hollasch,
Ray tracing in one weekendThe book is currently freely available online. |
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Steve Marschner & Peter Shirley
Fundamentals of Computer GraphicsThe book is available for free online access in our library. |