GPU Programming at UCSD

My first outline for a new GPU Programming class at UCSD. Let me know what you think:


First Class
Overview
-- DirectX 11.1 Graphics
-- DirectX 11.1 Compute
-- Tools of the Trade - how to setup your development system

Introduction to DirectX 11.1 Compute
-- Advantages
-- Memory Model
-- Threading Model
-- DirectX 10.x support


Second Class
Simple Compute Case Studies
- PostFX Color Filters
- PostFX Parallel Reduction
- DirectX 11 Mandelbrot
- DirectX 10 Mandelbrot


Third Class
DirectCompute performance optimization
- Histogram optimization case study


Fourth Class
Direct3D 11.1 Graphics Pipeline Part 1
- Direct3D 9 vs. Direct3D 11
- Direct3D 11 vs. Direct3D 11.1
- Resources (typeless memory arrays)
- Resource Views
- Resources Access Intention
- State Objects
- Pipeline Stages
-- Input Assembler
-- Vertex Shader
-- Tessellation
-- Geometry Shader
-- Stream Out
-- Setup / Rasterizer
-- Pixel Shader
-- Output Merger
-- Video en- / decoder access


Fifth Class
Direct3D 11.1 Graphics Pipeline Part 2
-- HLSL
--- Keywords
--- Basic Data Types
--- Vector Data Types
--- Swizzling
--- Write Masks
--- Matrices
--- Type Casting
--- SamplerState
--- Texture Objects
--- Intrinsics
--- Flow Control
-- Case Study: implementing Blinn-Phong lighting with DirectX 11.1
--- Physcially / Observational Lighting Models
--- Local / Global Lighting
--- Lighting Implementation
---- Ambient
---- Diffuse
---- Specular
---- Normal Mapping
---- Self-Shadowing
---- Point Light
---- Spot Light


Sixth Class
Physically Based Lighting
- Normalized Blinn-Phong Lighting Model
- Cook-Torrance Reflectance Model


Seventh Class
Deferred Lighting, AA
- Rendering Many Lights History
- Light Pre-Pass (LPP)
- LPP Implementation
- Efficient Light rendering on DX 9, 10, 11
- Balance Quality / Performance
- MSAA Implementation on DX 10.0, 10.1, XBOX 360, 11
Screen-Space Materials
- Skin


Eight Class
Shadows
- The Shadow Map Basics
- “Attaching” a Shadow Map frustum around a view frustum
- Multi-Frustum Shadow Maps
- Cascaded Shadow Maps (CSM) : Splitting up the View
- CSM Challenges
- Cube Shadow Maps
- Softening the Penumbra
- Soft Shadow Maps


Nineth Class
Order-Independent Transparency
- Depth Peeling
- Reverse Depth Peeling
- Per-Pixel Linked Lists


Tenth Class
Global Illumination Algorithms in Games
- Requirement for Real-Time GI
- Ambient Cubes
- Diffuse Cube Mapping
- Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion
- Screen-Space Global Illumination
- Reflective Shadow Maps
- Splatting Indirect Illumination (SII)