Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics: Mesh Processing (600.657)


Course Description

In this course, we will focus on the challenges of processing polygonal meshes. In particular, we will look at different data-structures for representing meshes, we will review some essential topics in differential geometry, and we will consider applications in smoothing, parameterization, remeshing, etc.

Logistics

The class will meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30-2:45 in NEB 218.

Text

We will closely follow the presentation in Botsch et al.'s book Polygon Mesh Processing. I will try to make copies of the text available as needed, but students are strongly encouraged to purchase the book.

Syllabus

Date Subject Reading Notes
8/30/10 Introduction
9/01/10 Surface Representations Chapter 1 notes
9/06/10 Class Cancelled (Labor Day)
9/08/10 Class Cancelled (Rosh HaShana Eve)
9/13/10 Mesh Data Structures Chapter 2 notes
9/15/10 Streaming Meshes (Bhaskar)
9/20/10 Differential Geometry Chapter 3 notes
9/22/10 notes
9/27/10 Computing Discrete Minimal Surfaces and Their Conjugates (Kalin) notes
9/29/10 Smoothing Chapter 4 notes
10/04/10 Anisotropic Geometric Diffusion in Surface Processing (Ming)
10/06/10 Class Cancelled (Sick Day)
10/12/10 Parameterization Chapter 5 notes
10/13/10 Conformal Flattening by Curvature Prescription and Metric Scaling (Dan)
10/18/10 Presentation of project proposals
10/20/10 Remeshing Chapter 6 notes
10/25/10 notes
10/27/10 Surface Segmentation Using Geodesic Centroidal Tesselation (Eric)
11/01/10 Simplification and Approximation Chapter 7 notes
11/03/10 notes
11/08/10 Structure Recovery via Hybrid Variational Surface Approximation (Kalin)
11/10/10 Model Repair Chapter 8 notes
11/15/10 Fixing Geometric Errors on Polygonal Models: A Survey (Dan)
11/17/10 Deformation Chapter 9
11/22/10 As-Rigid-As-Possible Surface Modeling (Ming)
11/24/10 TBA
11/29/10 Presentation of projects
12/01/10