Revised 3/10/03
Course Outline
NMP : N. M. Patrikalakis, DCG : D. C. Gossard, KHK : K.H. Ko
- February 5 / W / Introduction; Classification of Geometric Modeling Forms (NMP)
- February 10 / M / Differential Geometry of Curves (PS1 out) (KHK)
- February 12 / W / Differential Geometry of Surfaces (KHK) [Demo]
- February 18 / T / Introduction to Spline Curves (NMP)
- February 19 / W / Introduction to Spline Curves (PS2 out) (NMP)
- February 24 / M / B-splines (Uniform and Non-uniform) (PS1 due) (NMP)
- February 26 / W / Non-Uniform B-splines, Spline Surfaces (KHK)
- March 3 / M / Non-Uniform Rational B-spline Curves and Surfaces (KHK) [Demo] (Demo Program)
- March 5 / W / Physically-Based Deformable Surfaces (DCG) [Demo]
- March 10 / M / Fairing; Generalized Cylinders (KHK)
- March 12 / W / Blending Surfaces (NMP)
- March 17 / M / Intersections (PS2 due, PS3 out) (NMP)
- March 19 / W / Surface Intersections; Nonlinear Solvers (NMP)
- March 24 / M / Spring Vacation
- March 26 / W / Spring Vacation
- March 31 / M / Interval Methods, Robustness (KHK)
- April 2 / W / Offset Curves and Surfaces (PS4 out) (KHK)
- April 7 / M / B-rep and CSG (PS3 due) (NMP)
- April 9 / W / B-rep and Non-Manifold Mixed Dimension Models (KHK)
- April 14 / M / Computer Graphics Techniques (PS5 out) (Guest Lecturer)
- April 16 / W / Reverse Engineering, Reconstructing the Past (Guest Lecturer)
- April 21 / M / Holiday
- April 23 / W / Mechanical Tolerances (PS4 due) (Guest Lecturer)
- April 28 / M / Decomposition Models; Integral Properties of Solids (NMP)
- April 30 / W / Advanced Topics in Differential Geometry
- (Geodesics, Developable Surfaces, Umbilics, Parabolic Line, Ridge Line, Sub-Parabolic Line) (KHK)
- May 5 / M / Localization, Inspection and Model Matching (KHK)
- May 7 / W / Discrete Differential Geometry (PS5 due) (Guest Lecturer)
- May 12 / M / F.E. and B.E. Meshing Algorithms (Guest Lecturer) [Demo]
- May 14 / W / Machining Automation (Guest Lecturer) [Demo]