In this years course Radiometric terminology will be introduced and Realistic Image Synthesis issues such as Global Illumination and Physically Based Rendering will be discussed in detail.

Course Requirements and Grading

Main requirement of the course is the term project which will consist of a number of assignments. For each assignment the students will develop a section of a Ray Tracing based renderer. The code should be written in C++ and be properly object oriented. Additionally there will be a Final Examination.

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Ray Tracing [1, 2]

Radiometric Terms and Radiance [3]

Physically Based Illum. [4, 5, 6, 7 ], Rendering Eq.

Distributed Ray Tracing, Path Tracing

3D Space Decomposition

Texture Mapping [8, 9, 10]

Photon Mapping

Radiosity