I hope that you:

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CS395/495 Advanced Computer GraphicsIntro
Course Topics Overview
Jack Tumblin jet_at_cs.northwestern.edu

• I hope that you
• Look at book website
• Want to stay in this class (no? change by
  Friday!)
• Participate! Ask Questions! Get Inspired

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Choose One Presentation Topic,

• 1) Intro (this week)
• 2) 2D Images Mappings
• 3) Non-photorealistic Rendering (NPR)
• 4) Modeling I Parametrics and Implicits
• 5) Modeling II Mesh Subdivision, Simplification
• 6) Global illumination Light Transport .
• 7) Physical Animations Smoke, Water, Collisions
  and Breaking
• 8) Light Fields and IBMR
• 9) Point-based Modeling and Rendering
• 10) Project Demos (whole class evaluates)

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AND Choose A Project Topic

• From any presentation topic, or any of these
• Shader Languages for Graphics (Cg, Sh, etc.)
• Shadow-Making, Light Design, Visibility
• Tone-Mapping and Vision(Tumblin's specialty)
• Panoramic Image Stitching, HDR photography
• Human Facial Model, Animation, Recognition
• Human Figure Movement and Animation 
• Motion-Capture and Object Tracking
• Light Refraction, Dispersion Fluorescence
• Haptics and Modeling Deformable Objects
• Human-Computer Interface for Graphics Tasks
  ('Teddy', GT Twister for modeling, etc.)
• Or anything else I missed (just ask!)

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SEND

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd presentation topic prefs to
• ankit_at_cs.northwestern.edu
• before 9AM Monday Jan 12.
• First come, first served. Otherwise youll be
  ASSIGNED a topic.
• 1-Page Graphics Project Proposals
• before 9AM Monday Feb 9.
• Whats a graphics project? (Heckburt3aAnim2
  001.mov)

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2 2D Image Mappings

• Warp
• Morph
• (heckburt movie)

http//www.axlrosen.net/warp/alexwarplarge.html
Kutulakis
Nvidia2001
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3 Non-Photorealistic Rendering
3D vector field, shaded
Painterly rendering
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4 Models 1 Parametrics Implicits

• Parametric Patches
• vary u,v to find all surface points
• x xfcn(u,v)
• y yfcn(u,v)
• z zfcn(u,v)

Ian Stewart, Michael McCool, 1998

• Implicit Functions
• surface x,y,z points satisfy f(x,y,z)0.

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5 Models 2 Subdivision, Simplification

• Mesh Simplification

Pixar1998
Mesh Subdivision entire hand in ONE surface
patch!
Watson2001
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6 Real Materials Light Transport
Surface Properties Why Phong shading is not
enough
Global Illumination Methods Physically accurate
simulation of light transport like this? or.
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Like this!
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7 Differential Animations

• Fire, Water, Smoke
• Cloth, Fracture

Stam 1999
OBrien1999
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8 Light Fields IBMR

• .http//graphics.stanford.edu/projects/lightfield/
  
• http//www.intel.com/research/mrl/research/lfm/

Malzbender,2000
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9 Point-Based Models Rendering

• .

Surfels Pfister et al., SIGG2000
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10 Graphics Projects Demo

• Your attendance is important--- Students decide
  the grades!
• ALMOST ANYTHING instructive is fair game
• - Still images, Interactive demo, animated
  movie,
• - Programming project or Application project
• - Show results on a webpage in class
• Try to amaze us all!

Of course, I have to agree with the them too