Course Information

Place

• Lectures
  Time: 11:00am-12:15pm, Tu/Th
  Room: Gates B03
• Recitation Section
  Time: 1:15pm-2:05pm, Fri
  Room: Skilling 191

Virtual Places

• Home Page: http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348a-99-winter/
• TA e-mail: [email protected]
• SITN: Lecture broadcast on channel E3 from 5:45-7:00pm (Section broadcast live on E1). Students with two-way links should contact SITN tech support at (650) 725 7452 if they experience telecommunication problems.

Leonidas Guibas
[email protected]
Rm. 374 Gates Computer Science Building
(650) 723-0304
Office hours: 1:30-2:30pm, Tu/Th

Teaching Assistant

Ravi Ramamoorthi
[email protected]
Rm. 270 Gates Computer Science Building
(650) 723-3380
Office hours: 2:30-4:00pm, Mon and Fri, in Gates 270

Secretary

Mina Madrigal
[email protected]
Rm. 146 Gates Computer Science Building
(650) 723-4137

Textbooks

• Leonidas Guibas, Course Reader for CS348a (available at the Stanford Bookstore). Required.
• Alyn Rockwood and Peter Chambers, Interactive Curves and Surfaces, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1996. Required.
• Gerald Farin, Curves and Surfaces for CAGD, Academic Press, 1998. Recommended.
• Maso Woo, Jackie Neider, and Tom Davis, OpenGL Programming Guide, Addison-Wesley, 1997. Recommended.

Grading

• 15% homework 1
• 15% homework 2
• 15% homework 3
• 25% homework 4 (project)
• 15% class contribution
• 15% final

Homework Policies

CS348a is a highly technical course, so doing the homework is the only way to acquire a working knowledge of the material presented. We encourage you strongly to start working on the homework problems right away---the problems to be given have considerable technical depth and you are unlikely to be able to solve them if you wait until the evening before the due date. Collaboration in solving the problems is encouraged in this class---you have a lot to learn from your fellow students. However, in order to make grading the homeworks a meaningful way to measure your effort and your understanding of the material, we must put some restrictions:

• On theoretical (mathematical) problems, you may work together on finding solutions, but each of you must then write up your favorite solutions independently. Please list the names of your collaborators on your homework.
• On programming problems, groups of up to three students can work together as a team, handing in a single body of code and documentation as their team effort.

It is very important in this course that every homework be turned in on time. We recognize that occasionally there are circumstances beyond your control that prevent an assignment from being completed on time. You will be allowed two classes of grace during the quarter. This means that you can either hand in two assignments each late by one class, or one assignment late by two classes. Any further assignments handed in late will be penalized by 20% for each class that they are late, unless special arrangements have been made previously with the instructor or the TA.