Class and Paper Schedule for Advanced Modeling Techniques

This section convers techniques beyond simple polygons and patches for modeling objects and phenomena. The topics covered will include implicit surfaces, fractals, particle systems, and procedural techniques.
• Week 4 :

  Introduction to Advanced Modeling

  Fractals: (images by Ken Musgrave)

  i.e. Mandelbrot set Fractal Mountains

• Week 5 :

  More on Fractals and other Techniqes

  See "Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science" by Peitgen, Jurgens, Saupe.

• Week 5:

  Particle Systems:

  • Approximate and Probalistic Algorithms for Shading and Rendering Structured Particle Systems by Reeves and Blau, SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings.

  • Particle Systems -- A Technique for Moedling a Class of Fuzzy Objects by Bill Reeves, ACM Transactions on Graphics, April 1983, Vol2, #2.

• Week 5:

  Intro to L-systems, see the work by Prusinkiewicz & Hammel

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