EECS 598-1: Syllabus

Instructor

guskov@eecs.umich.edu

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Lectures

• 1/8: intro lecture
• 1/10: lecture 1: meshes, data structures
• 1/15: PA1(mesh processing) posted
• 1/15: lecture 2: manifold condition, polygonal simplification, curvature
• 1/17: lecture 3: topology preservation, out of core simplification
• 1/22: lecture 4: Terrain LODs
• 1/24: lecture 5: Bezier curves, blossoming
• 1/25: HW1(blossoming) posted
• 1/29: lecture 6: B-spline curves, smoothness
• 1/30: PA1 due
• 1/31: lecture 7: knot insertion, degree elevation
• 2/5: lecture 7 1/3: Adaptive Forward Differencing, B-spline derivatives, de Boor formula
• 2/7: lecture 7 2/3: NURBS
• 2/10: PA2(spline curves) posted
• 2/12: lecture 8: spline subdivision, 4pt scheme
• 2/14: HW1 due
• 2/14: lecture 9: smoothness of subdivision curves
• 2/19: HW2(splines and subdivision) posted
• 2/19: lecture 10: Bezier patches, spline surfaces
• 2/22: PA2 due
• 2/21: lecture 11: Subdivision surfaces: Loop, Catmull-Clark
• 2/21: PA3(Loop subdivision) posted
• 2/26: recess
• 2/28: recess
• 3/5: HW2 due
• 3/5: lecture 12: Convergence of subdivision
• 3/7: lecture 13: Smoothness of subdivision
• 3/12: Initial final project proposal due
• 3/12: lecture 14: Discussion of final projects
• 3/14: lecture 15: Boundary rules for subdivision
• 3/18: PA3 due
• 3/19: lecture 16: Surface fitting, surface parameterization: Floater's scheme
• 3/21: Final project proposal due
• 3/21: lecture 17: Multiresolution surface editing, Teddy
• 3/26: lecture 18: Surface reconstruction: alpha-shapes, Powercrust: Amenta, Curless-Levoy, Bernardini
• 3/28: lecture 19: Skeletons, quaternions, skinning, FFDs, Inverse kinematics
• 4/2: lecture 20: Point clouds, surface reconstruction, volumetric surface reps, marching cubes
• 4/4: lecture 21: Paper presentations
• 4/9: lecture 22: Paper presentations
• 4/11: lecture 23: Paper presentations
• 4/16: lecture 24: Paper presentations
• 4/16: final project due

Grading

• Programming assignments: 45%
• Written homeworks: 25%
• Class participation: 5%
• Final project: 25%

Relevant literature

• Warren book
• Nurbs book
• Blossoming notes
• Siggraph subdivision notes

Possible projects list

• Boundary rules
• Topology changing simplification
• to be continued...