CS 348C Basics

Time and Place:

Fall quarter, 1995,

TTh 2:30p - 3:45p, CIS 101, usually; consult the schedule for specifics prior to each class meeting.

Enrollment:

27 students at most. Students are selected according to the information they provide in the registration form.

Units:

1 unit (CR/NC only) or 3 units (CR/NC allowed).

See the course requirements for details.

Prerequisite:

CS 248 or equivalent.

Coordinator:

Apostolos Lerios. Follow this link for contact information. Office hours are held in the office on MW 1:00p - 2:30p. Students may also call or use email to set up appointments.

Course materials:

Required: Course reader available from the Stanford Bookstore. Until the reader is prepared, class material may be picked up from the drawers by the office of Sarah Beizer. A copy of the course reader is placed on reserve in the Math and Computer Science library.

Recommended references: They are all on reserve in the Math and Computer Science library.

• Farin, Gerald. Curves and Surfaces for CAGD. 3rd ed. Boston: Academic Press, 1993.
• Bartels, Richard H., John C. Beatty, and Brian A. Barksy. An Introduction to Splines for Use in Computer Graphics & Geometric Modeling. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1987.
• Ramshaw, Lyle. Blossoming: A Connect-the-Dots Approach to Splines. Technical Report 19. Palo Alto, CA: Digital Systems Research Center, June 21, 1987.
• Stolfi, Jorge. Oriented Projective Geometry. A Framework for Geometric Computations. Boston: Academic Press, 1991.

World Wide Web:

The home page for CS 348C is http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348c-95-fall/.

Class mailing list:

cs348c@aegean.stanford.edu. Students may freely use this mailing list.

Newsgroup?

Not available. The WWW and class mailing list are used for all announcements.

Televised?

No. (The room does not have SITN equipment.)

Auditing?

Auditors are welcome. However, they should yield to students who take the class for credit concerning questions, seating, etc. Extra copies of the course reader were prepared by the Stanford Bookstore for auditors.