CS348a Class Schedule, Winter Quarter '07-'08

Below are the key dates for the class.

Monday
Wednesday

January 7
January 9

No Class

 

Class Introduction; Homogeneous Coordinates; The Projective Plane; Oriented Projective Geometry

January 14
January 16

Affine/Projective Transformations and their Matrix Representations

Homework 1 out

Quaternions

 

January 21
January 23

MLK Day Holiday. No Class

 

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

 

January 28
January 30

Polar Forms

Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out

Continuity Constraints; Splines

 

February 4
February 6

B-Splines

 

Rational Curves

 

February 11
February 13

Tensor-Product and Total Degree Surfaces

Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out

Subdivision Curves and Surfaces

 

February 18
February 20

Presiden'ts Day Holiday. No Class

 

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

Project (Homework 4) out

February 25
February 27

Solid Models; BSPs and their Uses

Homework 3 due

 

In-class Midterm

March 3
March 5

Intro to Geometry Processing; Surface Reconstruction

 

Mesh Smoothing [Guest Lecture]

 

March 10
March 12

Mesh Simplification

 

Mesh Parametrization

Project due