In diverse applications (automotive industry, shipbuilding, design) freely deformable surfaces need to be designed in CAD environments and processed automatically The underlying mathematical theory and practical aspects are summarized by the term CAGD (Computer-Aided-Geometric-Design) This lecture presents the most important approaches of modeling curves and surfaces...

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During the last decades, computer graphics has become a widespread and sophisticated branch of computer science due to constant and high-quality research In this seminar we will discuss up-to-date and seminal works which advance the state-of-the-art of the field of computer graphics The topics are selected to be of scientific importance and at the same time to be comprehensible and understandable with basic knowledge of computer science and computer graphics...

" befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Themen der Spiele- und Unterhaltungssoftwareindustrie Dabei wird der Schwerpunkt auf technischen Ideen und Implementierungen sowie Design liegen Zum Beispiel: – Immersion & Flow – Designing a Game – Deferred Shading – Ambient Occlusion Natürlich gibt es noch viele weitere interessante Themen, welche in der ersten Veranstaltung bekannt gegeben werden...

The course covers certain fundamental and advanced methods which provide the basis of various applications in computer graphics and geometry processing Focus is on practical application of (numerical) algorithms including efficient implementation in C/C++ and Matlab Topics (preliminary) * review of linear algebra * discrete data interpolation and approximation * discretization of PDE/ODE * clustering algorithms * mathematics of rotations, shape registration * introduction to level sets ...