6.837 Course Calendar
Lecture Notes
No. | Date | Topic |
1 | Sept. 4 | Course Overview (PDF, 5.2 MB; PowerPoint, 51.3 MB) |
Sept. 8 | C++ tutorial notes (PDF, 80 KB; PowerPoint, 165 KB) | |
2 | Sept. 9 | Ray Casting (PDF, 11.1 MB; PowerPoint, 35 MB) |
3 | Sept. 11 |
Ray Casting (PDF, 2 MB; PowerPoint, 14 MB) (for your entertainment: an article on Plucker coordinates and ray-triangle intersection, and another one on the link with barycentric coordinates) |
4 | Sept. 16 | Transformations I (PDF, 800K; PowerPoint, 4 MB) |
5 | Sept. 18 | Transformations II (PDF, 500K; PowerPoint, 2 MB) |
Sept. 18 | Linear Algebra tutorial notes (PDF, 91 KB; PowerPoint, 225 KB) | |
6 | Sept. 23 | Ray Tracing (PDF, 1.3MB; PowerPoint, 36 MB) |
7 | Sept. 25 | Local Illumination (PDF, 5.4MB; PowerPoint, 4.5 MB) |
8 | Sept. 30 | Acceleration Data Structures (PDF, 2.4MB; PowerPoint, 2.3 MB) |
9 | Oct. 2 | Curves and Surfaces (PDF, 3.7MB; PowerPoint, 4.9 MB) |
10 | Oct. 9 | Animation I (PDF, 300K; PowerPoint, 4.0 MB) |
11 | Oct. 14 | Animation II: Quaternions (PDF, 200K; PowerPoint, 10 MB) |
12 | Oct. 16 | Animation III (PDF, 660K; PowerPoint, 12 MB) |
13 | Oct. 21 | Graphics Pipeline: Perspective Transformations (PDF, 1.2 MB; PowerPoint, 3.4 MB) |
14 | Oct. 23 | Graphics Pipeline: Line Clipping & Rasterization (PDF, 0.7 MB; PowerPoint, 1.8 MB) |
15 | Oct. 28 | Graphics Pipeline: Polygon Rasterization (PDF, 0.4 MB; PowerPoint, 2.1 MB) |
16 | Oct. 30 | Graphics Pipeline: Polygon Clipping (PDF, 1.9 MB; PowerPoint, 45.0 MB) |
17 | Nov. 4 | Shadows (PDF, 1.3 MB; PowerPoint, 21.0 MB) |
18 | Nov. 6 | Global Illumination: Radiosity (PDF, 1.3 MB; PowerPoint, 21.0 MB) |
19 | Nov. 13 | Monte Carlo Ray Tracing (PDF 1.3MB;Powerpoint 30MB) |
20 | Nov. 18 | Color (PDF 6.4MB; Powerpoint 22 MB) |
21 | Nov. 25 | Color II (PDF 3.3MB, Powerpoint 23MB) |
22 | Dec. 2 | Texture Mapping(PDF 4.2MB; Powerpoint 11 MB) |
23 | Dec. 4 | Sampling, Aliasing & MIP Mapping(PDF 2.1MB; Powerpoint 5.4 MB) |
Course Overview
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Ray
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Animation,
modeling, and Image-based rendering (IBR)
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Pipeline
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Last Modified 10/21/2003