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Geometric Modeling SS06
Geometric Modeling (SS06)
Hans-Peter Seidel and Alexander Belyaev
News
- 19/07: The results for the final exam and the final grades are online, you can find them here
To pass the course a total of 56 or more points were necessary (combined from assignments, mid term and final exam).
It is possible to have a look at your final exams until next wednesday (26th of July) in the office of Rhaleb Zayer. - 07/07: Fixed typos in assignment sheet 8, please download again.
- 19/06: The results for the mid term exam are online, you can find them here
All students who took part in the exam passed. - 07/06: Information for the mid term exam :
Location : HS II, Building E1.3
Date : Thursday, 8th of june
Time : 14:15 - 16:00
Policies : You can bring and use any material you need. - 01/06: There will be no exercise groups next week (monday june 5th and tuesday june 6th).
- 28/05: The mid term exam has been postponed a week to the 8th of june.
- 17/05: Next assignment sheet online. As the 25th is a holiday the solutions are due in 2 weeks on june 1st. Please be sure to read the notes on programming assignments for rules/hints on coding and the submission procedure.
- 05/05: Fixed a small typo in the second assignment sheet (Ass. 4).
- 27/04: First assignment sheet online.
- 26/04: As there will be no exercise group on monday, 1.5.06, Zachi Karni will be available for questions concerning the exercises in his office (MPII, Building E1.4, Room 212) on tuesday, 2.5.06, 10-11, and wednesday, 3.5.06, 14-15.
- 20/04: Added times and rooms for exercises.
- 19/04: New homepage activated.
- Assignment sheets are handed out in the Thursday lectures and are due the next Thursday lecture before class.
- We cannot accept "double submissions", everybody should provide her/his individual solution.
- Notes on programming assignments
- Rooms for the exercise groups:
- Monday 11-13 st, Room 21, MPII, Zachi Karni
- Tuesday 16-18 st, Room 24, MPII, Rhaleb Zayer
- Please indicate your excercise group on your homework.
Assignment sheets :
- Assignment sheet 1 (due May 4th)
- Assignment sheet 2 (due May 11th)
- Assignment sheet 3 (due May 18th)
- Assignment sheet 4 (due June 1st)
- Assignment sheet 5 (due June 8th)
- Assignment sheet 6 (due June 22nd)
- Assignment sheet 7 (due June 29th)
- Assignment sheet 8 (due July 13th)
Handouts and additional material
- Introduction (intro06.ppt, intro06.pdf)
- Curves and polylines (Java
applets & programs)
- Plane and space curves. Curvature. Curvature-based features (Curves 1, 2)
- Interpolation and approximation (curves-fit.pdf)
- Bezier curves, their properties (bezier-basic.pdf, bezier-polar.pdf, bezier-subdiv.pdf)
- B-splines, NURBS, subdivision curves (b-splines.pdf, b-splines2.pdf)
- Surfaces and meshes
- Surfaces (Topology 1, 2, 3, 4, Perl script for surface classification, Surfaces 1, 2, Curvature, Acquisition, Representations)
- Mesh smoothing (Smoothing, Smoothing)
- Computational geometry (CG)
- Implicit surfaces (Implicits 1)
There will be two exams for the course, mid-term and a final at the end of the course. Both exams must be passed.
- Mid-term exam : 8th June (results)
- Final exam : 18th July
The books are available in the CS library, see Geometric Modeling Handapparat.
- Günther Greiner, Geometrische Modellierung (lecture notes in German and English are available)
- Denis Zorin, Topics in Computer Graphics
- Igor Guskov, Geometric Modeling in Computer Graphics
- Leif Kobbelt, Geometric Modeling I (Curves) (lecture notes)
- e-Notes, (An interactiv introduction to splines)