15-463 Syllabus with tentative pace, Spring '95

• Introduction (.5 lecture)
• Image Processing
  • Raster Images (.5 lexture)
  • Point Processing (1 lecture)
    • contrast enhancement
    • compositing
  • Filtering (1 lecture)
  • Warping and Morphing (2 lectures)
  • Aliasing (1 lecture)
  • Fourier Transform & FFT (2 lectures)
  • Antialiasing (1 lecture)
  • Image Compression & Video (1 lecture)
  • Review (1 lecture)
  • Midterm (1 lecture)
• Rendering
  • A simple scene format (1 lecture)
  • Visibility algorithms
    • Ray casting (2 lectures)
      • Ray-surface intersection testing
      • Spatial data structures
    • Painter's algorithm (.5 lecture)
    • Z-buffer algorithm (.5 lecture)
    • Scanline & object space algorithms (.5 lecture)
  • Optics
    • Light & color (1 lecture)
    • Diffuse & specular reflection (1 lecture)
    • Shadows, transparency, & interreflection (1 lecture)
  • Shading
    • Ray tracing (2 lecture)
      • Recursive ray tracing
      • antialiasing by stochastic & adaptive sampling
    • Texture mapping (1.5 lecture)
    • Radiosity & global illumination (2.5 lecture)
  • Volume Rendering (2 lectures)
  • Review (1 lecture)