CENG 570 - Computational Geometry (Spring 2016-2017)

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  Date Lecture Topics Reading Assignments
Week
#1
Feb 24, Fri

Course overview
Mathematics and geometry review.
Representation of basic geometric primitives.

Lecture Slides
Class Web Page

 

Week
#2
Mar 3, Fri

Convex hulls

Line Segment intersection
 

Chapters 1 and 2 from the textbook

 

Week
#3
Mar 10, Fri

Computing the overlay of two subdivisions
 

Chapter 2 from the textbook
 

Assignment #1 (Written assignment)
Due date: March 19, Sunday
 

Week
#4
Mar 17, Fri

Polygon triangulation

Lecture slides
 

Chapter 3 from the textbook  

 

Week
#5
Mar 24, Fri

2D Linear Programming

Lecture slides
 

Chapter 4 from the textbook
 

 

Week
#6
Mar 31, Fri

Orthogonal range searching

Lecture slides
 

Chapter 5 from the textbook
 

Assignment #2 (Programming assignment)
Due date: April 9, Sunday
 

Week
#7
Apr 7, Fri



Point location

Lecture slides
 

Chapter 6 from the textbook
 

 

Week
#8
Apr 14, Fri

Midterm Exam

Sample Midterm Exam

 

Assignment #3 (Written assignment)
Due date: April 30, Sunday
 

Week
#9
Apr 21, Fri

Voronoi diagrams

Lecture slides
 

 

Chapter 7 from the textbook
 

 

Week
#10
Apr 28, Fri

Arrangements and Duality

Lecture slides
Chapter 8 from the textbook
 

 

Week
#11
May 5, Fri

Interval Trees and Segment Trees

Lecture slides
 

Chapter 10 from the textbook
 

Assignment #4 (Written assignment)
Due date: May 26, Friday
 

Week
#12
May 12, Fri

Robot Motion Planning

 

Chapter 13 from the textbook
 

 

Week
#13
May 19, Fri

No Class

 

 

 

Week
#14
May 26, Fri

Visibility Graphs

Final Review

 

Chapter 15 from the textbook