course is to provide fundamental mathematical foundation for dealing with curves and surfaces. By the end of this course students are expected to

1. generate, describe and modify curves and surfaces.
2. appriciate de Casteljau's algorithm, Bezier and spline curves and surfaces

This course is offered in the academic year Fall 2003. One may access the quizzes and their answres (you should have acrobat reader and/or ghostview Remember that the laser printer fonts are created by cubic Bezier curves. So prefer ghostscript and ghostview), and their grades. For aims & scopes, text book and detailed schedule please read the syllabus

Text books & references at amazon:

1. Curves and Surfaces for CAGD (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling)
   Gerald Farin, amazon.co.uk
2. The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling, Gerald Farin, Dianne Hansford at amazon.co.uk
3. The Essentials of CAGD Gerald Farin, Dianne Hansford at amazon.co.uk

Related Links: Gerald Farin's homepage at Arizona State University

Ken Joy's On-Line Geometric Modeling Notes at UC Davis, all materials for Mat 435 is covered in his notes

The journal Computer Aided Geometric Design

The journal Computer-Aided Design

Handbook of Computer Aided Geometric Design

Tom Lyche and Knut Mørken 's Spline Methods in CAGD notes & book

Maple Application center, you may find a great number of codes, for other course as well.

The foolowing table has links to files for quizzes, exams and the answers and also the results, i.e. grades.

The Mid-Term exam will take place in the room B256 on December 09, 2003 at 15.15.