CMPT 464/764 (Fall 2021)

CMPT 464/764: Geometric Modeling in Computer Graphics (Fall 2021)

School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

Instructor:

Name	Office	Phone	Email	Office hours
Richard (Hao) Zhang	TASC 8027	778-782-6843	haoz@cs.sfu.ca	Tuesdays 1-2 PM

TA:

Name Office Phone Email Office hours

Qimin Chen TASC 8004 778-782-3610 (lab phone) qca43@sfu.ca Thursdays 1-2 PM

Name	Office	Phone	Email	Office hours
Qimin Chen	TASC 8004	778-782-3610 (lab phone)	qca43@sfu.ca	Thursdays 1-2 PM

Lectures:

Tuesdays 10:30-12:20, BLU10021 Fridays 10:30-11:20, BLU10921

Class online discussion:

CMPT 464/764 Piazza page

The new computer graphics in the age of AI and Big Data
Geometric modelling and 3D content creation
Introduction to various 3D shape representations: tensor-product surfaces, implicit surfaces, polygonal meshes, subdivision surfaces, point-sampled geometry, procedural modelling, multi-view images, etc.
Subdivision surfaces and modelling
Level of details and multi-resolution modelling
3D shape acquisition and surface reconstruction
Digital shape processing and analysis: smoothing, feature extraction, segmentation, and correspondence
Geometric deep learning and generative modeling
3D printing

[Luebke 03] D. Luebke, et al., Level of Detail for 3D Graphics, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
[Botsch 10] Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt, Mark Pauly, Pierre Alliez, and Bruno Levy, Polygonal Mesh Processing, AK Peters, 2010.
[Hill 07] F. S. Hill Jr. and S. M. Kelley, Computer Graphics using Open GL, third edition, Prentice Hall, 2007.
[Zorin 00] D. Zorin and P. Schroeder, Subdivision for Modeling and Animation, SIGGRAPH 2000 Course Notes, 2000.

Policies and grades: [ Plagiarism | Lateness | Missed midterm | Check your grade ]
Cover page for homework assignments [PDF].
Online WebGL resources:
- A quick WebGL tutorial
- A more comprehensive WebGL fundamentals tutorial with good running examples.
WebGL is a subset of OpenGL. Here are some on-line OpenGL resources:
- OpenGL and OpenGL utility specifications; current version is 4.6.
- The Redbook: OpenGL Programming Guide 7th edition, for OpenGL 3.0 and 3.1 (latest version is 4.6). An older edition of this best-selling OpenGL programming guide is available on-line for free here
The LOD book
The MeshLab page. MeshLab is a REALLY NICE open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes.
CGAL: The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
Directory of computational geometry software
Many references on point-based graphics
The Virtual Terrain Project
The graphics file format page

School of Computing Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University