Aims and Learning Outcomes

• Students understand and use fundamental 3D geometry/scene representations and operations.
• Students learn animation techniques and controls.
• Students learn how light transport is modeled and simulated in rendering.
• Students understand how graphics and rendering can be used to solve computer perception problems.

Lectures

• Geometry representations: parametric surfaces, implicit surfaces, meshes, point-set surfaces, geometry processing pipeline. [1 lecture]
• Discrete Differential Geometry: surface normal and curvature, Laplace-Beltrami operator, heat diffusion. [1 lecture]
• Geometry Processing: parametrization, filtering, 3D capture. [1 lecture]
• Animation I: animation types, animation pipeline, rigging/skinning, character animation. [1 lecture]
• Animation II: blending transformations, pose-space animation, controllers. [1 lecture]
• The Rendering Equation: radiosity, reflection models, BRDFs, local vs. global illumination. [1 lecture]
• Distributed Ray Tracing: quadrature, importance sampling, recursive ray tracing. [1 lecture]
• Inverse Rendering: differentiable rendering, inverse problems. [1 lecture]