Computer Graphics, Spring 2011
Week by week calendar
(This schedule is tentative and may be adjusted along the way. Please check back often.)
January 18
Intro and overview 
intro.pdf + Shape representations in computer graphics: parametric surfaces, subdivision surfaces, implicits, point-based surfaces, polygonal meshes. Related data structures: spatial partitioning, mesh data structures representations.pdf.
January 25
Overview of the first assignment (Ming Jin).
- First assignment handout: Mesh "Hello World" + a model archive + a guide to the assignment + an As-short-as-possible Introduction to the Assignment Setup
February 1
Shape acquisition and reconstruction. More on implicit representations, MLS, marching cubes reconstruction.pdf.
Paper presentations/discussions: OpenMesh - a generic and efficient polygon mesh data structure (adam) and Shape Transformation using Variational Implicit Functions (ahmad)
February 8
Linear algebra tools for geometric modeling: Least Squares and PCA. Some details on Least Squares, Weighted Least Squares and Moving Least Squares linalgtools.pdf.
Paper presentations/discussions: Feature Sensitive Surface Extraction from Volume Data (polina) and Interpolating and Approximating Implicit Surfaces from Polygon Soup (gokul)
February 15
SVD svd.pdf + differential geometry primer: tangents and normals, curvatures, differential operators ddg_curves.pdf. Some details on least squares optimal rotations svd_ls_rotation.pdf.
- First assignment due
- Second assignment handout: selection GUI, local mesh operations assignment_2.pdf
Paper presentations/discussions: Least Squares Meshes (vasisht) and Nonlinear dimensionality reduction by locally linear embedding (brian)
February 22
Differential geometry of surfaces ddg_surfaces.pdf.
Paper presentations/discussions: Image Deformation Using Moving Least Squares (tim) and Skinning Mesh Animations (david)
March 1
Out of office (GDC). Recap of previous lectures by Ming Jin.
Discussion of Assignment 1 solutions. Recap on Laplacian mesh editing, least squares meshes, PCA and its applications in OBB. Brief Recap Notes. Final project topics from spring 2009 finalproject_09_spring.pdf
March 8
Digital geometry processing: smoothing, simplification, parameterization, and remeshing dgp.pdf.
- Final project description, suggested topics
- Proposals for an alternative assignment 2 due
March 15
Spring break
March 22
Laplacian mesh processing lmp.pdf. Mesh deformation intro: surface-based methods vs. space deformations defointro.pdf.
- Second assignment due
- Tentative project description due by end of this week
Paper presentations/discussions: Deforming Meshes that Split and Merge (jay) and , and Computing Discrete Shape Operators on General Meshes (han)
March 29
Differential surface editing techniques. Poisson and Laplacian mesh editing, advanced nonlinear techniques lme.pdf.
- Final project proposal due
Paper presentation: Green Coordinates (Matthew)
April 5
Space deformation techniques: classic FFD, radial basis functions, cage-based approaches spacedefo.pdf.
Sketch-based interfaces for shape creation and editing. Teddy, FiberMesh, SilSketch sketch.pdf.
April 12
Sketch-based interfaces for shape creation and editing. Teddy, FiberMesh, SilSketch sketch.pdf.
More applications of geometric optimizations: skin animation skeldefo.pdf.
April 19
Early demos of final projects.
April 26
Presentation of final projects.