CS348a Class Schedule, Winter Quarter '12-'13

Below are the key dates for the class.

Monday
Wednesday

January 07
January 09

Class Introduction; Homogeneous Coordinates; The Projective Plane

Read: Lecture Slides

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 14
January 18

Quaternions

 

Read: N12, N13, N17

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

Homework 1 out

Read: N18 (Section 5), N19, N20

January 21
January 23

No class: MLK Day

Polar Forms

 

Read: N19, N20, N21

January 28
January 30

Derivatives and Polar Forms; Continuity Constraints [Guest Lecture]

Read: N22, N23, N24, N27, Lecture Slides

Basic Differential Geometry; Curvature [Guest Lecture]

Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out

Read: Lecture Slides

February 04
February 06

Splines and B-Splines

Read: N22, N23, N24, N27

Subdivision Curves

Read: Siggraph 99 Notes

February 11
February 13

Rational Curves

Read: N25

Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces

Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out

Read: N25, N26

February 18
February 20

No class: President's Day

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

Project (Homework 4) out

Read: N30, N31

February 25
February 27

In-class Midterm

Solid Models; BSPs and their Uses

Homework 3 due

Read: N33

March 04
March 06

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

Read: Geometry Processing Slides

Mesh Parametrization

Read: Parametrization Slides

March 11
March 13

Mesh Simplification

Read: L08, L12, L13, L15

Class Wrap-Up

Project due