Three dimensional modeling

Course goals

3D Modeling pertains to all forms of creating, designing, synthesizing, acquiring, analyzing and deforming geometric shapes in space and its numerous applications. The applications are numerous: from computer graphics and the film industry, through computer-aided design (CAD/CAM) and architecture, to processing of point clouds and procedural modeling. 

Content

The following topics are covered:

• interpolating polynomials, Bezier curves, B-splines
• implicit surfaces, marching cubes
• subdivision and mesh representation structures
• polygonal meshes, mesh compression, hierarchy
• Delaunay triangulation, tetrahedralisation, alpha-shapes
• LiDAR point clouds, RANSAC, reconstruction, CityGML
• normal estimation, principal component analysis
• progressive meshes
• procedural modeling, L-systems