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.
• Proof of the relation between a unit norm quternion and a rotation specified by axis and angle QuaternionProof.
• 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.
• For some related material on mesh simplification, see the book "Geometry and Topology for Mesh Generation" by Herbert Edelsbrunner.
• 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.