Useful Links
Below are some links containing useful material related to the course topics:
Gamasutra Feature by Nick Bobick [1998]:
Rotating Objects Using Quaternions
.
The
MinMaxer manual
.
Peter Schröder's (Caltech) and Denis Zorin's (NYU) Siggraph '99 course notes on
Subdivision for Modeling and Animation '99
.
The Siggraph 2000 version of the same notes
Subdivision for Modeling and Animation '00
.
Joe Warren's (Rice) course notes on
Subdivision Methods for Geometric Design
.
The original Garland/Heckbert Siggraph '97 paper on mesh simplification:
Surface Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics
.
Some related notes on simplification from a course by Hebert Edelsbrunner:
L12
,
L15
.