Eecs 598-1: Geometric Modeling in Computer Graphics

Winter 2002

Instructor: Prof. Igor Guskov

guskov@eecs.umich.edu

Location: 1024 FXB

Times: Tue, Thu, 3:00PM-4:30PM

Credits: 3.0

Office hours: Thu: 4:30-5:30PM

Syllabus

Class policies

News

3/21: you can play with my revived 4pt scheme applet.
3/17: PA3 bug fixed, deadline moved to 3/25.
3/14: PA3 supplement is updated on PA3 page.
3/12: List of possible projects posted just below.
3/7: PA3 is posted below
1/15: please subscribe to the class mailing list by sending e-mail to eecs598-1-request@eecs.umich.edu with the word subscribe in the subject line.

Updated 3/14: Possible projects

Lectures

notes 1 (pdf)
notes 2 (zipped powerpoint)
notes 3 (pdf)
notes 4 (zipped powerpoint)
notes 5-6 (pdf)
notes 7 (zipped powerpoint)
No file for lecture 8: see last sections of notes 5-6 and a paper by Lien et al below. There will be a hard copy handout in the class.
lecture 9: handout in class
2/12: notes 10 (pdf) + hard copy handout
2/14: notes 11 (pdf) + chapter two of Joe Warren's notes below.
2/21: notes 13 (pdf)
3/5: Siggraph 00 subdivision notes (28 MEGABYTES) : pages 35-45
3/7: Siggraph 00 subdivision notes (28 MEGABYTES)
3/12: discussion on PA3 and HW2 and projects.
3/14: Derived schemes notes, Loop subdivision and box splines: Chapter 6 from Joe Warren's notes : pages 53-64; discussion on PA3 and HW2.
3/19: Notes, chapter 3 of Siggraph notes.
3/21: Notes, chapter 4 of Siggraph notes (Butterfly and Kobbelt's interpolating schemes).
3/26: Surface reconstruction methods: Edelsbrunner-Muecke alpha-shapes, Amenta et al. crust and power-crust, Turk-Levoy zipper, Curless-Levoy volumetric
3/28: Surface parameterization, remeshing. Papers: Igarashi's Teddy, MAPS: Lee et al., Floater's scheme.

Papers and preprints

Efficient Fair Interpolation using Catmull-Clark Surfaces
(Mark Halstead, Michael Kass and Tony DeRose)
Adaptive forward differencing for rendering curves and surfaces by Lien, Shantz and Pratt.
Subdivision methods for geometric design by Joe Warren.
An Introduction to Polar Forms by Hans-Peter Seidel.
Visualization of Large Terrains Made Easy by Peter Lindstrom and Valerio Pascucci.
Real-Time, Continuous Level of Detail Rendering of Height Fields by Peter Lindstrom, David Koller, William Ribarsky, Larry F. Hodges, Nick Faust, and Gregory A. Turner
A Developer's Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms by David Luebke
Surface Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics by Michael Garland and Paul Heckbert
Implicit Fairing of Irregular Meshes using Diffusion and Curvature Flow by Mathieu Desbrun et al.
Progressive Meshes by Hugues Hoppe
Herbert Edelsbrunner's course notes
Siggraph 2000 subdivision notes (one large file of 28Megs!)

Assignments

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCR-0133554.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).