Useful
Links
Below are some links containing useful material related to the
course topics:
- Jorge Stolfi's Ph.D. Thesis, Primitives for Computational Geometry.
- Gamasutra Feature by Nick Bobick [1998]: Rotating
Objects Using Quaternions.
- The XForms manual.
- 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: L08,
L12, L13, L15.
- The 2007 Siggraph course notes on Geometric Modeling Based on Polygonal Meshes by Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly, Leif Kobbelt, Pierre Alliez, Bruno Levy, Stephan Bischoff, and Christian Rössl
- The Miri Ben-Chen lecture slides of 10/12/2009 on differential geometry of curves are available here.