After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand an overview of basic and state-of-the-art methods of rendering. Offline methods such as ray and path tracing, photon mapping and many other algorithms are introduced and various refinement are explained.

• Rendering theory
  Basic optics, rendering equation, filtering
• Rendering algorithms
  Ray tracing, path tracing, Metropolis light transport, bi-directional path tracing, (stochastic progressive) photon mapping, path space regularization, vertex connection and merging
• Acceleration techniques
  Spatial hierarchies, sampling strategies,
• Surface representations
  BRDF models: Lambert, Phong, Oren-Nayar, Cook-Torrance, Ashikhmin-Shirley
• Participating media
  Scattering, volumetric photon mapping, photon beams
• Higher dimensional effects
  Motion blur, depth of field
• Camera models
  Pinhole, Perspective, Orthographic
  
• Post processing
  HDR, tone mapping

Subject to refinement. Definite version here.

Theoretical lecture with slides, programming exercises.

Literature:

• Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory To Implementation, M. Pharr and G. Humphreys, Homepage, ACM
  The main book of the lecture (referred to as PBRT).
  
  

• Course on Monte-Carlo Methods in Global Illumination, L. Szirmay-Kalos, Link
  A free course scriptum that gives a detailed explanation of the mathematical foundations of Global Illumination

Lecture slides and assignments

• Lecture slides are available on the course website.
• Assignments are posted on TUWEL
• Communication mainly on TUWEL

ECTS Breakdown:

3 ECTS = 75 hours

• Lecture: 30 hours
• Assignments: 30 hours
• Exam preparation: 15 hours

Course information:

Consult the course page here. Do register in TUWEL, it's used for help forums, the weekly Q&A session and posting Assignments.

Submission talk on the programming tasks, answering theoretical questions.

Registration via TISS