Photorealism

Thomas Schiffer, Marcel Lancelle

Content

Today computer graphics is able to produce images with an amazing degree of realism for various branches of industry (computer games, movies, ...). This lecture discusses state-of-the-art techniques of photorealistic computer graphics and deals with the following questions:

How does your favourite computer game create nice, good looking pictures?
Which techniques are used to create highly realistic renderings in industry?
What are ray tracing, radiosity and photon mapping?
What are the foundations of state-of-the-art algorithms and what are their limitations?

Location & Time

Change of schedule:
Mondays, 11:00-12:30, CGV Seminar Room
Tuesdays, 11:00-12:30, CGV Seminar Room

except for:
Tuesday, 09.03.2010, 11:00-12:30, CGV Seminar Room
Thursday, 11.03.2010, 11:00-12:30, CGV Seminar Room

Course Material

(Access only from within TU Graz network (e.g. TUG-VPN))

Interactive Rendering

Introduction, 02.03.2010
OpenGL & OpenSG, 04.03.2010
Shadows, 09.03.2010
Displacement Mapping, 11.03.2010
Ambient Occlusion, 15.03.2010
Camera Artefacts, Postprocessing, 16.03.2010
Specular Effects, 22.03.2010
Global Illumination, 23.03.2010

Photorealistic Rendering

Optics and Rendering Equation, 19.04.2010
Light-Matter Interaction, 20.04.2010
Basic Raytracing, 26.04.2010
Acceleration Structures, 27.04.2010
Stochastic Raytracing, 04.05.2010
Path Tracing, 11.05.2010
Advanced Raytracing, 17.05.2010
Interactive Raytracing, 18.05.2010
Basic Radiosity, 31.05.2010
Advanced Radiosity, 01.06.2010
Gamma Space and Tone Mapping, 07.06.2010
Photon Mapping, 08.06.2010
Guest Lecture by Sven Widmer: Realtime Rendering in Games, 15.06.2010
Render Systems, 22.06.2010

Assignments

Assignment 1: GLSL Programming due to 16.03.2010, 11:00 am
Assignment 2: Percentage Closer Soft Shadows due to 29.03.2010, 11:00 am
Assignment 3: Localized Reflection & Refraction due to 27.04.2010, 11:00 am
Assignment 4: Radiance Calculations due to 04.05.2010, 11:00 am
Assignment 5: GLSL Raytracer due to 17.05.2010, 11:00 am
Assignment 6: Stochastic Raytracer due to 31.05.2010, 11:00 am
Assignment 7: Radiosity due to 15.06.2010, 11:00 am