Course Schedule
This page gives the course schedule and PDFs of the slides used in the lecture.NOTE: This schedule is tentative and is subject to change.
| Topic | Materials | |
|---|---|---|
| M 01/03 | Introduction: Why is graphics programming changing and open problems in real-time rendering | |
| W 01/05 | A trip down the 2003 rasterization graphics pipeline (DirectX9) | |
| M 01/10 | A trip down the 2011 rasterization graphics pipeline (DirectX11) | |
| W 01/12 | Rendering effects review | Assig. 1 |
| M 01/17 | No class (Martin Luther King day) | |
| W 01/19 | GPU architecture I: how GPU shader cores work | "A Closer Look at GPUs" |
| M 01/24 | Parallel programming I: intro to parallel programming (and Cilk, OpenCL, DirectCompute) | Due: assig. 1 |
| W 01/26 | Graphics with GPU Compute Languages | |
| M 01/31 | GPU architecture II: scheduling the graphics pipeline Mike Houston from AMD, Guest lecturer |
Assig. 2 (Due Wed, Feb 9) |
| W 02/02 | Parallel programming II: data-parallel algorithms (scan, reduce, sort, etc) | Hillis and Steele paper Prof. Guy Blelloch's publication page (see early 1990s) Prefix Sum on wikipedia Intel's Array Building Blocks (ArBB) CUDPP: CUDA data-parallel primitives |
| M 02/07 | Project idea lecture: review of recent research, open problems, etc. | |
| W 02/09 | Parallel programming III: programming graphics pipelines on CPUs and GPUs | Due: Assig 2 |
| M 02/14 | Hard shadows: render-analyze-render | Due: project proposals |
| W 02/16 | Order-independent transparency: render to user-defined data structure | |
| M 02/21 | No class (President's day) | |
| W 02/23 | Parallelism in game engines Natasha Tatarchuck from Bungie, Guest lecturer |
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| M 02/28 | Post-process depth-of-field | Due: project status reports |
| W 03/02 | Real-time ray tracing on CPUs and GPUs Bill Mark from Intel, Guest Lecturer |
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| M 03/07 | Evolving the real-time rasterization pipeline: 5D rasterization, micropolygons, etc. | |
| W 03/09 | Wrap-up, what's next for research in real-time rendering and programming models? | |
| Thurs, 03/17 | Final project presentations Note: Special finals time of 2:30pm - 4:20pm |
