CS348a Class Schedule, Winter Quarter '11-'12

Below are the key dates for the class.

Monday
Wednesday

January 09
January 11

Class Introduction; Homogeneous Coordinates; The Projective Plane

Read: N08, N15, N16; Chapters 1 and 2 of Stolfi's thesis

Oriented Projective Geometry; Euclidean and Affine Transformations; Matrix Representations

Read: N09, N11

January 16
January 18

No class: MLK Day

Quaternions

Homework 1 out

Read: N12, N13, N17

January 23
January 25

Shape Modeling: Parametric and Implicit; Classification of Parametric Cubics.

Read: N18 (Section 5), N19, N20

Polar Forms

 

Read: N19, N20, N21

January 30
February 1

Derivatives and Polar Forms; Continuity Constraints

Read: N22, N23, N24, N27

Basic Differential Geometry; Curvature [Guest Lecture]

Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out

Read: Lecture Slides

February 06
February 08

Splines and B-Splines

Read: N22, N23, N24, N27

Subdivision Curves

Read: Siggraph 99 Notes

February 13
February 15

Rational Curves

Read: N25

Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces

Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out

Read: N25, N26

February 20
February 22

No class: President's Day

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

Project (Homework 4) out

Read: N30, N31

February 27
February 29

In-class Midterm

Solid Models; BSPs and their Uses

Homework 3 due

Read: N33

March 05
March 07

Intro to Geometry Processing; Smoothing and Remeshing [Guest Lecture]

Read: Geometry Processing Slides

Mesh Parametrization [Guest Lecture]

Read: Parametrization Slides

March 12
March 14

Mesh Simplification

Read: L08, L12, L13, L15

Class Wrap-Up

Project due