CS348a Class Schedule, Winter Quarter '04-'05

Below are the key dates for the class.

Tuesday
Thursday

January 4
January 6

Class Introduction; Homogeneous Coordinates; The Projective Plane; Oriented Projective Geometry

 

Affine/Projective Transformations and their Matrix Representations [Guest Lecture]

 

January 11
January 13

Shape Modeling: Parametric and Implicit

Homework 1 out

Classification of Parametric Cubics

 

January 18
January 20

Polar Forms

 

Continuity Constraints; Splines

 

January 25
January 27

B-Splines [Guest Lecture]

Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out

Rational Curves

 

February 1
February 3

Quaternions

 

Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces I

 

February 8
February 10

Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces II

Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out

Subdivision Surfaces I

 

February 15
February 17

Subdivision Surfaces II

Homework 3 due; Project (Homework 4) out

Triangle Meshes and their Representation; the Quad-Edge Data Structure

 

February 22
February 24

Solid Models; BSPs and their Uses

 

 

In-class Midterm

March 1
March 3

Mesh Simplification

 

Scattered Data Interpolation I

 

March 8
March 10

Scattered Data Interpolation II

Project due

Class Summary; Course Evaluation