Advanced Modelling, Rendering and Animation

Syllabus

Course Structure

Week Date Topic Hours Lecturer Readings 1 07-Jan Colour 2 TW Old UCL Slides for Reference 09-Jan Realistic Materials 1 TW 2 14-Jan Translucency and Bidirectional Texture Functions 2 TW 16-Jan Graphics Processing Units 1 TW 3 21-Jan Graphics Processing Units 2 TW 23-Jan Texture Mapping 1 TW 4 28-Jan Surface Representations 2 TW 30-Jan Acceleration Techniques 1 JK 5 04-Feb Revisiting the Radiance Equation, Path Tracing 2 JK 06-Feb Path Tracing continued 1 JK 6 — Reading Week — 7 18-Feb Photon Mapping and Advanced Radiosity 2 JK Radiosity and Global Illumination, Sillion-Puech, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1994 20-Feb Advanced Radiosity continued 1 JK 8 25-Feb Guest Lecture: TBA 2 27-Feb Instant Radiosity 1 JK 9 04-Mar Light Cuts and Precomputed Radiance Transfer 2 JK 06-Mar Texture Synthesis 1 JK 10 11-Mar Physics, Particles and Mass-Spring Systems 2 XP 13-Mar Keyframe Animation 1 XP 11 18-Mar Human Body Animation, Behavioural Animation 2 XP 20-Mar Image-Based Rendering 1 TW