CSC0049 高等計算機圖學 (Advanced Computer Graphics)

Fall 2025 (114學年上學期)

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Syllabus: (Download the PDF here.)

Lecture Slides:

n CG Short films that were mentioned in class.

n Sep. 03: Introduction

n Sep. 10: Ray Tracing

n Sep. 17: Ray Tracing II

n Sep. 24: continued

n Oct. 01: Distributed Ray Tracing

n Oct. 08: continued

n Oct. 15: Radiosity

n Oct. 22: Monte Carlo Path Tracing

n Oct. 29: Path Tracing – Implementation Issues

n Nov. 05: continued

n Nov. 12: Colors

n Nov. 19: Anti-aliasing and Sampling Theorem

n Nov. 26: Introduction to GPU Programming;

n Dec. 03: Precomputed Light Transport

n Dec. 10: Image-Based Rendering

n Dec. 17: Final Project Demos

n Winter break

Assignments: (Enter Moodle to submit homeworks)

• Assignment 1 (due 9/23): Part A of a ray tracer; (input example)
• Assignment 2 (due 10/14): Part B of a ray tracer; (input example)
• Assignment 3 (due 10/28 11/4): Acceleration with a bounding volume; (input example)
• Final Projects (TBA): Some ideas and recommended topics

Tools & Example Codes:

² A 3D vector and matrix library (written in C++).

² Examples of PPM image output, written in C and C++.  IrfanView (a freeware) may be used to view the generated image.

² stb_image: a single-file public domain libraries for image I/O in C/C++.

² Progressive Radiosity by Eric Chen while he worked for Apple. (alternative link)

² GLUT library (documents in HTML, in PDF, header & binary precompiled for MS Windows).

References:

Ø Physically Based Rendering by Matt Pharr Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys; The Online edition of the book is now available.

Ø Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley.

Ø Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation, by Eric Veach, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, December 1997.

Ø Ray Tracing Gems, edited by Eric Haines and Tomas Akenine-Möller.

Ø SIGGRAPH 2018 Course, Introduction to DirectX Ray Tracing;

Ø TU Wien Rendering/Ray Tracing Course, available on Youtube.

Ø SIGGRAPH 2012 Course, Advanced (quasi) Monte Carlo methods for image synthesis

Ø SIGGRAPH 2008 Course, Advanced Global Illumination using Photon Mapping

Ø SIGGRAPH 2008 Class: Practical global illumination with irradiance caching

Ø SIGGRAPH 2001 Course #54, An Interactive Introduction To OpenGL Programming

Ø Description of the OBJ format for 3D models.

3D Scenes:

² McGuire Graphics Data

² PBRT example scenes.

² A cow model (in OBJ format).

² Some 3D models may be obtained at Lighting Challenges from 3DRender.com, 3D Cafe and http://lodbook.com/models/.

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