Point Based Graphics
CMPUT 610

Syllabus

This is a tentative syllabus, and is subject to changes. Linked files will be posted as they become available.

Week

Class Dates

Material

Lecture Notes

Assignments

1

January 8

·       Introduction

Lecture0

 

2

 

January 16

 

·       3D sensing technologies

Further Reading

Lecture1

  Bring your object to be digitized

3

January 23

  No-class: Scheduled Thesis Defense

     

     

4

January 30

·       Algorithms for High Quality Point Rendering

·       Pointshop3D: An Interactive System for Point-Based Surface Editing

Further Reading

Lecture2

PointShop3D

Assignment 1

5

February 6

      No Class: NSERC Discovery Grant Week

      Further Reading

      

Assignment 1 Due February 20th

6

February 13

·       Project discussion

    

Project proposal due February 13th

7

February 20

No Class: Reading week

  

     

8

February 27

·       Point-Based Surface Representations
Further Reading

 

Lecture3

Assignment 2

9

March 6

·       Efficient Data Structures for Point Based Processing

      Further Reading

Lecture4

   

10

March 13

·       Processing, Sampling and Filtering of Point Models
Further Reading

Lecture5

Lecture5-FFT

Project checkpoint 1

11

March 20

·       Shape Based Modeling of Point Sampled-Geometry

Further Reading

Lecture6

    

12

March 27

·       Physics Based Animation (Rigid Objects)
Further Reading

Lecture7

Assignment 2 Due March 27th

Video of Rigid Object Animation

13

April 3

·       Physics Based Animation (Deformable Objects)

     Further Reading

Lecture8

 Video of Deformable Objects   

14

April 10

·       Physics Based Animation (Fluid Mechanics)
Further Reading

Lecture9

 Video of Fluid Animation  

13

April 7

Final Project Presentations

   

 

 

14

April 15

Final Report: IEEE format max 8 pages

   

 

Project report due by 4:30 pm by e-mail