Lecture: Rendering Techniques I: Global Illumination and Real-Time Photorealism

Course
- Lecturer(s):
- Start: 13.04.2010
- Dates: Tue. 11 (c.t.) - 13, A6a
- Course number: MA-INF 2204
- Curriculum: Master , Diploma (Graduate)
- Diploma Area: B
- Effort: 2+1 SWS / 4 CP
- Exams: In the week of 26.07 - 28.07
- Follow-up/Side-events: Lecture: Digital Geometric Models
Exercises
- Tutor(s):
- Start: 6. May
- Dates: Thu. 17(c.t.) - 19 / every two weeks
Description
This lecture discusses advanced rendering techniques that aim at highly realistic images. Particular emphasis lies on high quality depictions of materials. In detail the topics of this lecture are: Note: Diploma graduate students can take a combined exam with the lecture "Digital Geometric Models".
Foundations of radio- and photometry
Models for the description of optical material properties and light sources
Transport-, volume visualization- and rendering equation
Algorithms and techniques for the solution of the volume visualization and rendering equation
Algorithms and techniques of image based renderingLiterature
Rendering
Slides
- Basics (PDF document, 2.4 MB)
- Color & Radiometry (PDF document, 1.5 MB)
- Reflection Models (PDF document, 1.7 MB)
- Reflection Models2 (PDF document, 1.9 MB)
- Rendering Equation (PDF document, 1.2 MB)
- Importance Sampling (PDF document, 1.4 MB)
- Pathtracing (PDF document, 1.0 MB)
- Sampling and Reconstruction (PDF document, 1.7 MB)
- Acceleration Structures for Path Tracing (PDF document, 1.1 MB)
- Photon Mapping (PDF document, 1.2 MB)
- Participating Media (PDF document, 0.9 MB)
Assignment Sheets
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Exercise 1: Raytracing Assignment sheet (PDF document, 98 KB)
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Exercise 2: Raytracer Extension Assignment sheet (PDF document, 120 KB)
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Exercise 3: BRDF models and MCI Assignment sheet (PDF document, 66 KB)
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Exercise 4: Pathtracer and MCI2 Assignment sheet (PDF document, 629 KB)
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Exercise 5: Path tracing continued and Filtering Assignment sheet (PDF document, 348 KB)
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Exercise 6: Photon Mapping Assignment sheet (PDF document, 830 KB)
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Additional Documents
- A Practical Guide to Global Illumination Using Photon Mapping (PDF document, 27 MB)
- Monte-Carlo Raytracing Siggraph 2001 Course (PDF document, 9.3 MB)