CS 448 - Mathematical Methods for Computer Graphics, Lecture Notes (original) (raw)

CS 448 - Topics in Computer Graphics

Lecture Notes

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

Part 1: Wavelets

• 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)

Part 2: Monte Carlo Methods

• 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

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