CEG-777 Computer Aided Geometric Design

Fall 2008

Class Hours: 2:45 – 4:00 PM, M, W; Classroom: TBA; Instructor: A. Goshtasby;

Office: 495 Joshi Center; E-mail: agoshtas@wright.edu; Phone: 775-5170;

Office Hours: 1:00 - 2:00 PM M – R, or by appointment.

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CRN: 89053

Units: 4

Textbooks:
Geometric Modeling, 3rd Edition
Michael E. Mortenson
Industrial Press, Inc., 2006

Purpose of Course:
To cover the fundamentals of geometric modeling, including design of curves and surfaces, composite curves and surfaces, and subdivision techniques for creating free-form shapes.

Contents:

1. Mathematical preliminaries
2. Cubic Hermite curves
3. Bézier curves
4. B-spline curves
5. Properties of curves
6. Bicubic Hermite surfaces
7. Bézier surfaces
8. B-spline surfaces
9. Subdivision surfaces
10. Implicit surfaces
11. Properties of surfaces

Learning Goals:
Students will learn the basic mathematical tools to design geometric models and implement some of the tools.

Projects:
There will be three projects and three quizzes. Each project will require about 15 hours of work, and each quiz will cover two weeks of materials covered in class.

Grading Policy:
Programming assignments will worth 50% the quizzes will worth 50% of the overall grade. Following grades are guaranteed A: 90..100, B: 80..89, C:70..79, D: 60..69, E: 0..59.

Calendar:

Quizzes: On 10/1, 10/15, 10/29.

Projects	Assigned dates	Due dates
Project 1	9/24	10/8, 2:00 PM
Project 2	10/8	10/22, 2:00 PM
Project 3	10/22	10/30, 2:00 PM