CS348a Class Schedule, Winter Quarter '04-'05
Below are the key dates for the class. |
Tuesday
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Thursday
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January 4
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January 6
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Class Introduction; Homogeneous Coordinates; The Projective Plane; Oriented Projective Geometry
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Affine/Projective Transformations and their Matrix Representations [Guest Lecture]
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January 11
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January 13
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Shape Modeling: Parametric and Implicit Homework 1 out |
Classification of Parametric Cubics
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January 18
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January 20
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Polar Forms
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Continuity Constraints; Splines
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January 25
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January 27
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B-Splines [Guest Lecture] Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out |
Rational Curves
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February 1
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February 3
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Quaternions
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Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces I
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February 8
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February 10
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Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces II Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out |
Subdivision Surfaces I
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February 15
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February 17
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Subdivision Surfaces II Homework 3 due; Project (Homework 4) out |
Triangle Meshes and their Representation; the Quad-Edge Data Structure
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February 22
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February 24
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Solid Models; BSPs and their Uses
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In-class Midterm |
March 1
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March 3
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Mesh Simplification
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Scattered Data Interpolation I
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March 8
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March 10
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Scattered Data Interpolation II Project due |
Class Summary; Course Evaluation
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