Requirements: 3D CG programming experience. Good skills in mathematics.

Notes:

• Most topics are only theorically covered. Some methods are experimented with Maya.
• Some algorithms/methods are implementable or can be covered with more details, please contact us.

Duration: 3 Days, 7 hours per day

Sessions on demand: Ask for one session

Cost: 1 500 Euros for the 3 days for 1 person, V.A.T (19.6%) not included. Travel, lodging and meals NOT included.

Course content

1. Advanced 3d modeling

   • Topological modeling
   Topological dimension, manifold, genus, embedding, G-Map
   • Implicit surfaces
   • Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
   • Procedural textures
   Perlin, ...

2. Advanced rendering

   • Volume graphics
   Marching cubes, transfert function, other methods
   • Local illumination
   Light modeling, radiometry, BRDF
   • Raytracing
   Algorithm, Aliasing, sampling, filtering

3. Global illumination

   • Mathematics
   Probabilities, Monte Carlo integration (Russian Roulette, splitting ; stratified sampling, importance sampling, ...)
   • Rendering equation
   • Stochastic path tracing
     Path tracing
   • Photon mapping
   Theory & practise with mental ray.
   • Participating medias
   phase function, raymarching