CS348a Class Schedule, Winter Quarter 2016-17

Below are the key dates for the class.

Monday
Wednesday

January 09
January 11

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, Affine and Projective Transformations; Matrix Representations

Read: Lecture Slides

Read: N09, N11

January 16
January 18

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day (holiday, no classes)

Rotations and Quaternions

Homework 1 out

Read: N12, N13, N17

January 23
January 25

Basic Differential Geometry; Curvature and Tortion

Read: Lecture Slides

Introduction to Geometry Processing

Read: Lecture Slides

January 30
February 01

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

Read: Lecture Slides

Read: N18 (Section 5), N19, N20; for parametric/implicit see also the Hoffmann report/slides

Polar Forms

Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out

Read: N19, N20, N21

February 06
February 08

Derivatives and Polar Forms; Continuity Constraints

Read: N22, N23, N24, N27

Splines and B-Splines

Read: N22, N23, N24, N27

February 13
February 15

Subdivision Curves

Read: Siggraph 99 Notes

Rational Curves

Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out

Read: N25

Taubin paper

February 20
February 22

Presidents' Day (holiday, no classes; Law does hold classes)

Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces

Read: N25, N26, Lecture Slides1, Lecture Slides2

February 27
March 01

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

Project out

Read: N30, N31, Lecture Slides

In-class Midterm

March 06
March 08

Mesh Simplification

Homework 3 due

Read: L08, L12, L13, L15

Scan Alignment or Registration/Surface Reconstruction

Read: Slides, BeslMcKay, ChenMedioni, PottmanHofer,MitraEtAl

March 13
March 15

Building and Improving Meshes

Read: Lecture Slides

Mesh Parametrization

Project due

Read:Lecture Slides