CS 6630 Realistic Image Synthesis
Fall or spring. 4 credits. Prerequisites: CS 4620 or equivalent and undergraduate-level understanding of algorithms, probability and statistics, vector calculus, and programming. Offered fall 2009.
Advanced course in realistic image synthesis, focusing on the computation of physically accurate images. Topics include radiometry; Monte Carlo methods, models for light reflection from surfaces and scattering in volumes, and algorithms for global illuminations.