Three-Dimensional Programming (P3D)

The Goal!

This course introduces the conceptsand theory of a modernphotorealistic rendering. Throughthe ideas and software in this course(Physics laws-based light transportmodel versus empiric light model)the students will learn to design anddevelop a rendering system forcreating stunning imagery.

Global Illumination with Ray-Tracing

The Problem: Interactive Photorealistic renderingPhysics laws-based light transport model

What You’ll Learn!

• You’ve learned Local Illumination : tricks to simulate photorealistic effects like environmental mapping (AVT: done in GPU by using GLSL programming)

• Global Illumination: Enhanced Ray Tracer algorithm with Spatial partition, Soft Shadows and Monte Carlo techniques (anti-aliasing and depth-of-field)

• UNITY 3D-based application development by using its Assets library and the built-in shadersfor photorealistic appearance

You’ll be able to do THIS!

Get Hired!

Empresas Nacionais: Lisboa, Porto, Braga, Coimbra, Almada e Barcelos

http://www.spcvideojogos.org/empresas

AfterYou,Battlesheep,

Biodroid Entertainment, BlitPop,

Blueshark Studios,

Flying Turtle Software,

Gameinvest,

IddTouch, Lisboa

iMobile Magic, Inovaworks, Lisboa

Miniclip Portugal Phit Interactive,

Seed Studios

Spellcaster Studios

WingzStudio

ZPX

Teachers!

Prof. João Madeiras Pereira (INESC-ID)

jap@inesc-id.pt

Prerequisites

Previous experience on Computer Graphics

Good knowledge of

C/C++ programming

Data structures (lists, arrays, trees…)

Geometry

Linear Algebra

Object programming skills

Warning

P3D Course is programming intensive

Best way to learn applied topics such this is done by coding

If you feel uncomfortable with coding, be aware

Consider yourselves warned

No excuses accepted afterwards

Bibliography

Kevin Suffern, “Ray Tracing from the Ground Up”, AK. Peters, 2007;

http://www.raytracegroundup.com

Bibliography

Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, PhysicallyBased Rendering : From Theory toImplementation, Second Edition,Morgan Kaufmann, 2010

http://www.pbrt.org

Bibliography

Tomas Möller, Eric Haines, “Real-Time Rendering”, Third Edition, AK. Peters, 2008

www.realtimerendering.com/

Schedule1 21-Fev

Apresentação

2 28-FevCarnaval

Carnaval Carnaval

3 7 Mar

Overview de Ray Tracing e ImplementaçãoRT 1 – Diffuse and Shadows

Exercise 1

4 14-Mar

Implementação de Ray Tracing (cont.)RT 1 – Diffuse and Shadows (cont.) Exercise 1 (cont.)

5 21-MarIntersecções Geométricas

RT 2 – Reflections and RefractionsCheckpoint 1

6 28-MarDistribution Ray-Tracing - Anti-aliasing,Soft Shadows, DOF

RT 3Exercise 2

7 4-AbrEstruturas de Aceleração I RT 4 Exercise 3

8 11-AbrFérias Páscoa Férias Páscoa Férias Páscoa

9 18-Abr

Mini-teste 1Estruturas de Aceleração II

RT 5 - Soft Shadow e Anti-aliasing, DOF Exercise 3 (cont.)

10 25-AbrFeriado Feriado

Feriado

11 2-MaioUso de BSPs em Cenas Interiores RT 6 - Grid Acceleration

Checkpoint 2

12 9-Mai Mini-teste 2Iluminação em CG UNITY 3D

Exercise 4

13 16-MaiModelos de Materiais UNITY 3D Exercise 5

14 23-MaiMini-Teste Repescagem UNITY 3D Exercise 6

15 30-MaiUNITY 3D Checkpoint 3

Grading Policy

Theory (20%) – no minimum grade

2 written mini-tests (10% each): MT 1: 18th AprilMT 2: 9th MayRepetition: 23rd May

Labs (80%) – minimum grade: 9.5

Checkpoint 1 (15%): 21 March;

Checkpoint 2 (30%): 2 May;

Checkpoint 3 (35%): 30 May

Método de Avaliação

Estudantes trabalhadores : semelhante ao dos estudantes regulares

Época especial: O aluno realizará, individualmente, umprojecto de natureza idêntica ao projecto das épocasnormais, apresentando um protótipo acompanhado por umrelatório, ambos objecto de uma prova oral. Os critérios deavaliação do projecto são os mesmos em época especial eépoca normal, mas não existem entregas intermédias para oprojecto de época especial. Deverá obrigatoriamente obterdo corpo docente o enunciado respectivo até, no máximo, oprimeiro dia do período de exames do segundo semestrepara que este possa ser avaliado até ao final da épocaespecial.