Photorealism

Thomas Schiffer

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

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

Course Material

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

Introduction, 14.03.2011
Advanced OpenGL, 15.03.2011
Exercises and OpenGI, 21.03.2011
Shadow Mapping, 22.03.2011
Assignment 1 - Shadow Mapping, 28.03.2011
Geometry and Displacement Mapping, 29.03.2011
Assignment 1 - Shadow Mapping, 04.04.2011
Specular Effects, 05.04.2011
Ambient Occlusion, 11.04.2011
Advanced Rasterization, Assignment 2 - Instant Grass, 12.04.2011
Rendering Equation, 09.05.2011
Light Matter Interactionn, 10.05.2011
Basic Raytracing, 16.05.2011
Acceleration Structures, 17.05.2011
Capturing Reality, 23.05.2011
Cameras, 24.05.2011
Stochastic Ray Tracing, 30.05.2011
Advanced Ray Tracing, 31.05.2011
High Performance Graphics, 06.06.2011
Interactive Ray Tracing, 07.06.2011

Assignments

Sources and other data are provided via SVN (Material/ directory). Further problems can be discussed in the newsgroup of the lecture: tu-graz.lv.photorealism.

Assignment 1 - Shadow Mapping due to 26.04.2011
Assignment 2 - Instant Grass due to 17.05.2011
Assignment 3 - Radiance Calculations due to 24.05.2011
Assignment 4 - Interactive Ray Tracing due to 08.07.2011