CS348a Class Schedule, Winter Quarter '02-'03

Below are the key dates for the class.

Tuesday
Thursday

January 7
January 9

Class Introduction; Homogeneous Coordinates; The Projective Plane

 

Affine and Projective Transformations

 

January 14
January 16

Quaternions [Guest Lecture]

Homework 1 out

Shape Modeling: Parametric and Implicit

 

January 21
January 23

Classification of Parametric Cubics

 

Polar Forms

 

January 28
January 30

Continuity Constraints; Splines

Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out

B-Splines

 

February 4
February 6

Rational Curves

 

Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces I [Guest Lecture]

February 11
February 13

Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces II

Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out

Subdivision Surfaces I

 

February 18
February 20

Subdivision Surfaces II

Homework 3 due; Project (Homework 4) out

Triangle Meshes and Their Representation

 

February 25
February 27

In Class Midterm

 

Mesh Simplification

 

March 4
March 6

Mesh Compression

 

Scattered Data Interpolation

 

March 11
March 13

Solid Models; BSPs and Their Uses

Project due

Class Summary; Course Evaluation