CS 448 - Topics in Computer Graphics

Mathematical Methods for Computer Graphics

There will not be any lecture notes for the first class meeting (Sep 25).

Lecture 1 (Sep 30) - Introduction to Wavelets (Zorin)
Scribe: John Owens (jowens@graphics.stanford.edu)
Lecture 2 (Oct 2) - Introduction to Wavelets II (Zorin)
Scribe: Scott Cohen (scohen@cs.stanford.edu)
Lecture slides: Haar hierarchical filter bank, Haar basis
Lecture 3 (Oct 7) - Construction of Orthogonal Wavelets (Zorin)
Scribe: Li-Wei He (lhe@cs.stanford.edu)
Lecture 4 (Oct 9) - Biorthogonal Wavelets (Zorin)
Scribe: Pierre Louveaux Handout: Some books on wavelets
Lecture 5 (Oct 14) - Applications of Wavelets in Graphics (Veach)
Scribe: Li-Yi Wei (liyiwei@graphics.stanford.edu)

Lecture 6 (Oct 16) - Introduction to Monte Carlo Integration (Veach)
Scribe: Lucas Pereira (lucasp@graphics.stanford.edu)
Lecture 7 (Oct 21) - Sampling Random Variables (Veach)
Scribe: Menelaos Karavelas (menelaos@graphics.stanford.edu)
Lecture 8 (Oct 23) - Variance Reduction I (Veach)
Scribe: James Davis (jedavis@graphics.stanford.edu)
Lecture 9 (Oct 28) - Variance Reduction II (Veach)
Scribe: David Hoffman (hoffman@cs.stanford.edu)
Lecture 10 (Oct 30) - Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods (Veach)
Scribe: Matt Pharr (mmp@graphics.stanford.edu)
Lecture 11 (Nov 4) - The Metropolis Sampling Algorithm (Veach)
Scribe: Homan Igehy (homan@graphics.stanford.edu)

Part 3: Subdivision Surfaces

Lecture 12 (Nov 6) - Review of Splines and Introduction to Subdivision (Zorin) Revised Dec. 9
Scribe: Xiaomei Zhu (jenyzhu@leland.stanford.edu)
Lecture 13 (Nov 11) - Analysis of Subdivision Curves (Zorin) Revised Dec. 9
Scribe: Hoofar Razavi (hoofar@cs.stanford.edu)
Lecture 14 (Nov 13) - Analysis of Curves, Loop's Scheme for Surfaces (Zorin) Revised Dec. 9
Scribe: Mark Wang (mwang@graphics.stanford.edu)
Lecture 15 (Nov 18) - Classical Subdivision Surfaces (Zorin) Revised Dec. 9
Scribe: Joey Beheler (jbeheler@leland)
Lecture 16 (Nov 20) - Analysis of Subdivision Surfaces (Zorin)
Scribe: Szymon Rusinkiewicz (smr@cs.stanford.edu)
Lecture 17 (Nov 25) - Analysis of Subdivision Surfaces, Multiresolution Surfaces (Zorin)
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Scribe: Mike Malkin (mikeym@leland.stanford.edu)
Thanksgiving (Nov 27) - no class

Part 4: Concepts of Differential Geometry

Lecture 18 (Dec 2) - Curves (Hanrahan)
Scribe: David Koller dk@cs.stanford.edu
Lecture 19 (Dec 4) - Surfaces (Hanrahan)
Scribe: Tamara Munzner (munzner@cs.stanford.edu)
Lecture 20 (Dec 9) - Caustics (Hanrahan)
Scribe: Chris Stolte (cstolte@cs.stanford.edu)

Part 5: Interval Methods Cancelled

Last update: November 25, 1997

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