Tentative class schedule --- 22C:297 --- Fall 1996

Note: All papers are from Siggraph 96 proceedings. And just in case someone from outside the class is reading this and wondering - the name preceding a paper is not the paper author, but the name of the student who will present the paper in this class.


Week 1
8/26: Organizational meeting. Discussion of topics covered. Handout of paper abstracts
8/29: Paper selection.
Week 2
9/3: Siggraph 96 video proceedings.
9/5: Kearney/Cremer: Comic Chat
Week 3
9/10: He: Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs: ...
9/12: I. Lungeanu: View Morphing
Week 4
9/17: D. Lungeanu: Light Field Rendering/The Lumigraph
9/19: Kooima: The Feudal Priority Algorithm on Hidden-Surface Removal
Week 5
9/24: M. Damian: Hierarchical View-dependent Structures for Interactive Scene Manipulation
9/26: I. Lungeanu: Progressive Meshes
Week 6
10/1: Kobayashi: Real-Time, Continuous Level of Detail Rendering of Height Fields
10/3: PROJECT ABSTRACTS DUE. M. Damian: Simplification Envelopes
Week 7
10/8: Willemsen: Position-Based Physics: ...
10/10: Choi: Efficient Generation of Motion Transitions using Spacetime Constraints
Week 8
10/15: Henning: SKETCH: An Interface for Sketching 3D Scenes
10/17: Hostetler: Disney's Aladdin: First Steps Toward Storytelling in Virtual Reality
Week 9
10/22: D. Lungeanu: Improv: A System for Scripting Interactive Actors in Virtual Worlds
10/24: A. Mathur: The Virtual Cinematographer: ...
Week 10
10/29: Jones: Blue Screen Matting
10/31: V. Damian: Reconstructing Curved Surfaces From Specular Reflection ...

Week 11
11/5: V. Damian: Talisman: Commodity Realtime 3D Graphics for the PC
11/7: Jones: Multiresolution Video

Week 12
11/12: He: Modeling and Rendering of Metallic Patinas
11/14: Kooima: Visual Models of Plants Interacting With Their Envrionment
Week 13
11/19: Henning: Flow and Changes in Appearance
11/21: Choi: Technologies for Augmented-Reality Systems: ...
Week 14
11/26: Mathur: Adding Force Feedback to Graphics Systems: Issues and Solutions
11/28: THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS
Week 15
12/3: Kobayashi: Image-Guided Streamline Placement
12/5: CREMER OUT OF TOWN - NO CLASS
Week 16
12/10: Willemsen: Rendering Parametric Surfaces in Pen and Ink
12/12: Hostetler: Painterly Rendering for Animation
FINALS WEEK - Project presentations