CSS 552 – Topics In Rendering Monday/Wednesday 5:45pm – 7:45pm Room: UW1-051 Kelvin Sung (ksung@u.washington.edu)

Computing and Software Systems UW Bothell

Important Links:

· GoPost Discussion (Reading Materials/questions/comments etc.)

Resources:

· Help on XNA and WinForm

Other Resources: (remember to cite your sources!)

· Real-Time Rendering Textbook site: Tons of graphics/games references.

· Bunch of links to relevant on-line resources.

Link to the final projects from this class.

Administration:

· The Syllabus for this class.

· Your scores for this class at this point.

· Permission for showing your work (If you don’t mind me showing your work, then PLEASE fill this out!!)

Ray Tracer with KD-Tree: Here is the link to one example executable for Ray Tracer with KD-Tree acceleration structure (with corresponding command files and sample output).

Lecture Notes:

· Week7: Lecture notes on Bump mapping.

· Week6: Sampling/Filtering: Catch up + Final Project Assign

· Week5: Texture Mapping: Intro and Topic Coverage and Barrycentric

· Week4: Global Effects

o Reflection/Refraction and Shadow Map

o Aliasing and Sampling

· Week3: Illumination models and Light sources.

· Week2: Review on Vectors, Orthonormal Base + Pixel Location, and Colors

· Week1: Implementation Framework, and View+Camera

Due Dates: (MP Submission Area)

	Due Date (at 5:45pm)
MP1	Tuesday Apr 16 (at 11:45pm) New: Wednesday Apr 17 (at 5:45pm) Help on XNA Installation
MP2	Apr 24 (at 5:45pm): Here is the MP2 Start Project with proper build configuration.
MP3	May 6 (at 5:45pm)
MP4	May 15 (at 5:45pm)
MP5	May 29 (at 5:45pm)
Final project is group work, quizzes are still individual efforts!!
Final Project Proposal	Monday May 20 (Bring print out to class) Feedback from me: May 22
Final Project Research Presentation	Monday June 3 (Presentation in class) Research Talk Evaluation form Grade for your peers + Quiz Questions
Final Demo	Monday Jun 10 Final Demo Evaluation form Grade for your peers

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0442420. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Nation Science Foundation.

The refinement of this course material is supported by a grant from Microsoft Research under the Computer Gaming Curriculum in Computer Science RFP, Award Number 15871.

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