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Session Topic
19.02.2013 Opening lecture: Intro , Image Formation I
Reading Material: Reyes paper (Pixar) | SG 2010 RenderMan Course (Ch.1)
26.02.2013 Light & Matter
Reading Material: Slides| Chapter 5
05.03.2013 Monte Carlo Ray Tracing
Reading Material: Slides| Chapter 13| Chapter 14
12.03.2013 Monte Carlo Ray Tracing II
Reading Material: Slides| Chapter 13| Chapter 14| Depth of Field (Ch 6.2.3) | Motion Blur (Ch 2.9) | Wavelet Importance Sampling
19.03.2013 Global Illumination I
Reading Material: Slides| Chapter 15
26.03.2013 Bidirectional Light Transport
Reading Material: Slides| Chapter 15
09.04.2013 Radiosity & Precomputed Radiance Transfer
Reading Material: Slides
16.04.2013 Participating Media I
Reading Material: Slides| Chapter 11| Chapter 16
23.04.2013 Participating Media II
Reading Material: Slides| Chapter 11| Chapter 16| Beam Radiance Estimate
30.04.2013 BRDF Models and Microfacet Theory
Reading Material: Slides| Chapter 8
07.05.2013 Subsurface Scattering
Reading Material: Slides| Subsurface Scattering (Ch 16.5)
14.05.2013 Progressive Photon Mapping
Reading Material: Slides| Author Page (Paper & Code)
21.05.2013 Stratified Sampling and Many Lights Methods
Reading Material: Slides| Lightcuts| Virtual Sphere Lights| Virtual Ray Lights


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