February 16 Reflection models
M. Oren and S. Nayar, Generalization of Lambert's Reflectance Model, SIGGRAPH 94.
R. Cook, K. Torrance, A Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics, ACM TOG, 1982.

February 23 Filtering, resampling

March 2 Monte-Carlo ray tracing, ray tracing acceleration, photon mapping.
E. Veach, L. Guibas, Metropolis Light Transport, SIGGRAPH 97.
Presenter: Chris Logie
H. Wann Jensen, S. Marschner, M. Levoy, P. Hanrahan, A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport, SIGGRAPH 2001
Presenter: Dino Lee

March 9 Tone mapping, perception and perceptual metrics.
W. Stokes, J.A. Ferwerda, B.J. Walter, D.P. Greenberg, D.P. Perceptual Illumination Components: A new approach to efficient, high quality global illumination rendering., SIGGRAPH 2004.
Presenter: Jason Reisman
M. AshikhminA Tone Mapping Algorithm for High Contrast Images
Presenter: Dino Lee

March 23 Introduction to programmable graphics hardware.

March 30 Graphics hardware II.
W. Mark, R.S. Glanville, K. Akeley, M.J. Kilgard, Cg: a system for programming graphics hardware in a C-like language,, SIGGRAPH 2003.
Presenter: Todd Scott

Michael McCool, Stefanus Du Toit, Tiberiu Popa, Bryan Chan, Kevin Moule, Shader Algebra
Presenter: Chris Logie

April 6 Global illumination on graphics hardware.
T. J. Purcell, I. Buck, W. R. Mark, P. Hanrahan Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware, SIGGRAPH 2002.
Presenter: Teobaldo Fernadnez
Photon Mapping on Programmable Graphics Hardware, , Graphics Hardware, 2003.
Presenter: Ilya Rosenberg

April 13 Nathan A. Carr, Jessie D. Hall and John C. Hart, GPU Algorithms for Radiosity and Subsurface Scattering. Graphics Hardware 2004.
Presenter: Jason Reisman

Mark J. Harris, William Baxter, Thorsten Scheuermann, and Anselmo Lastra Simulation of Cloud Dynamics on Graphics Hardware. Graphics hardware 2004.
Presenter: Teobaldo Fernandez

Joerg Schmittler, Sven Woop, Daniel Wagner, Wolfgang J. Paul, and Philipp Slusallek Realtime Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes on an FPGA Chip
Presenter: Douglas Summer Stay

April 20 Image-based rendering.
M. Levoy and P. Hanrahan, Light Field Rendering, SIGGRAPH 96.
Presenter: Ilya Rosenberg
B. Cabral, M. Olano and P. Nemec. Reflection Space Image Based Rendering, SIGGRAPH 99.
Presenter: Kwok On Lau
April 27 Non-photorealistic rendering.
R.D. Kalnins, P. L. Davidson, L. Markosian, A. Finkelstein, Coherent stylized silhouettes, SIGGRAPH 2002.M
Presenter: Douglas Summer Stay