Fundamentals of Computer Modeling

1.5 credits · Graduate

Introduction to geometric modeling and digital geometry processing. Topics include surface modeling based on polygonal meshes, surface reconstruction, mesh improvement, mesh parametrization, discrete differential geometry, interactive shape editing, skinning animation, architectural and structure-aware geometric modeling, shape modeling with an eye on 3D printing. Design, implementation and analysis of algorithms and systems for interactive 3D shape modeling and digital geometry processing.