Surface Modeling
Polygon Surfaces
Polygon Tables
Types of Curves: Parametric vs. Implicit Representations
Why Parametric?
Specifying Curves
An Example: Beziér Curves
Beziér Patches
Example: The Utah Teapot
Subdivision of Beziér Surfaces
Deforming a Patch
Patch Representation vs. Polygon Mesh
Sweep Representations
Constructive Solid-Geometry Methods (CSG)
A CSG Tree Representation
Example Modeling Package: Alias Studio
Volume Modeling
Marching Cubes Algorithm
Marching Cube Cases
Extracted Polygonal Mesh
Procedural Techniques: Fractals
Example: L-systems
Example of a complex L-system model
Particle Systems
Next Time
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