CS348a Class Schedule, Fall Quarter '06-'07
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Tuesday
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Thursday
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September 26
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September 28
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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
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October 3
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October 5
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Quaternions Homework 1 out |
Shape Modeling: Parametric and Implicit
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October 10
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October 12
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Classification of Parametric Cubics
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Polar Forms
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October 17
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October 19
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Continuity Constraints; Splines Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out |
B-Splines
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October 24
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October 26
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Rational Curves
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Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces I
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October 31
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November 2
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Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces II [Guest Lecture] Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out |
Subdivision Curves and Surfaces I [Guest Lecture]
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November 7
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November 9
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Subdivision Curves and Surfaces II
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Triangle Meshes and their Representation; the Quad-Edge Data Structure Homework 3 due; Project (Homework 4) out |
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November 14
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November 16
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Solid Models; BSPs and their Uses
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In-class Midterm |
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November 21
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November 23
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Thanksgiving Recess
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Thanksgiving Recess
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November 28
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November 30
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Mesh Simplification
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Scattered Data Interpolation I
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December 5
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December 7
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Scattered Data Interpolation II [Guest Lecture] Project due |
Class Summary; Course Evaluation
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