CS 631 - COMPUTER-AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN

College of Engineering

Credits: 3

Overview of current concepts and issues in CAGD with emphasis on free-form surface design; mathematics of free-form curve and surface representations, including Coons patches, Gregory patches, Bezier method, B-splines, NURBS, triangular interpolants, and their geometric consequences; creating objects with smooth surfaces, covering assembling spline patches, geometric and parametric continuity, texture mapping onto complex shapes, subdivision surfaces, surface evolution, and global optimization.

Prerequisite(s):
Prereq: CS 535 and CS 321, or consent of instructor.