Code: 2-MPG-217

Continuous assessment: None

Final assessment: Presentation on a selected professional article from a related field.

Objective: To deepen students' knowledge in the area of CAGD based on current monographic and journal literature and to acquaint them with advanced techniques of geometric modelling.

Course syllabus:
  1. Curves and surfaces constructed by refinement schemes.
  2. Wavelets.
  3. Modelling using implicitly defined curves and surfaces.
  4. Variational modelling of curves and surfaces.
  5. Selected numerical approximations of curves and surfaces.

Literature:

Zorin, Schroeder, et al.: Subdivision surfaces for modeling and animation, Siggraph 2000
Cohen, Riesenfeld, Elber: Geometric Modeling with Splines, AK Peters 2001
Velho: Implicit Objects in Computer Graphics, Springer 2002