Computer Graphics: Modeling

CPSC 524

Spring 2012

 

Description  Instructor - Grading - Times and Places - Syllabus -

Announcements – Papers - Software and Models 

4/2/12: Project description is  out, due April 27 midnight.

3/4/12: Assignment 3 is out, due March 23rd at midnight.

2/1/12: Assignment 2 is out, due Feb 17th at midnight.

1/23/12: The course google group is here

1/18/12: Assignment 1 is out

Description

 

Three-dimensional geometric models are the base data for applications in computer graphics, computer aided design, visualization, multimedia, and other related fields. This course will focus on computerized modeling of discrete (digital) geometry, and in particular polygonal meshes. We will study data structures and algorithms for creating, manipulating, editing and analyzing digital geometry models.

 

Students are expected to have successfully completed an introductory computer graphics  course (e.g. UBC CS 314) or have an equivalent background. An existing knowledge of OpenGL is assumed, although knowledge of a comparable system (such as DirectX) should be sufficient.

 

More details are provided in the syllabus.

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Instructor

 


Alla Sheffer
Office: CICSR x651 e-mail: mailto:sheffa@cs.ubc.ca
Phone: (604) 822-4030
Office hours: Monday 14:00-15:00

 

TA: Mikhail Bessmeltsev, e-mail: mailto:bmpix@cs.ubc.ca

Grading

 

 

The grade will be based on a combination of: paper presentation, assignments, final project and class participation (no exam). The final grade will be calculated in the following way:

·      10% - Class participation

·      Includes: weekly summaries and peer feedback

·      10% - Assignment 1: Mesh Processing "Hello World"  due  Jan 27

·      17% - Assignment 2: Mesh Simplification, due Feb 17

·      18% - Assignment 3: Mesh Deformation

·      20% - Paper presentation

·      Sources for papers include proceedings of Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) , SIGGRAPH , Eurographics, Shape Modelling International (SMI)   from recent years (links).

·      Includes: ppt slides + one page summary submitted a week ahead.

·      25% - Final project ,

·      Final projects must be done in pairs

 

Times and Places

 

 

Monday & Wednesday 11:00-12:30, Dempster 201

 

Software & Models

 

 

Software for Mesh Display & Manipulation:  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~iansouth/524/

VRML2.0 spec

You can find a bunch of VRML models (archived) here.

To download more models (VRML/OBJ) check: aim@shape