Handouts

   * Handout #1, W1-17-96 DVI, Hypertext, Compressed PS.
        o When and Where
        o Course Description
             + Material Covered
             + Prerequisites
             + Why Take This Course?
        o Prof: Wm Randolph Franklin
        o Reading materials
             + Textbook
             + Other Good Books
             + Papers
             + Handouts
             + WWW
             + Library Reserve
             + General Library Material
        o Grading
             + A Major Research Project
             + Homeworks
             + Class Participation
             + Exams
             + Ethics
        o Attendance Policy
             + Picking Up Handouts After Class
        o Computers
             + Course Computer Files
             + Usenet Discussions
             + Public Files
        o Handout 2
        o Enrichment Material
             + Intel Talk
             + Computer News: Software Piracy Case Settled
   * Handout #2, W1-17-96. Lee and Preparata paper, not available online.
   * Handout #3, W1-31-96. DVI, Hypertext, Compressed PS.
        o Homework 1 - Due Wed Feb 6
        o Reading
   * Handout #4: Fortune's survey paper.
   * Handout #5, W2-27-96. DVI, Hypertext, Compressed PS.
        o Voronoi Diagrams
             + Voronoi Mailing List
             + Xvoronoi Screendumps
        o Term Project
             + Rules
             + A Dynamic Implementation
             + Working with Me
                  + Lossy Compression of Elevation Data
                  + Triangulated Irregular Network
                       + Open Areas
                       + Files
                  + Terrain Visibility and LOS
                       + Files
                  + Image Edge Detection by Line of Sight
                  + Correlating Two Overlapping FEM Tesselations
                  + Fast Rational Approximations to Surface Illumination
                    Functions
                  + Implement the Chazelle-Edelsbrunner Optimal Line
                    Intersection Algorithm
                  + Install Edelsbrunner's Fast Convex Hull Program
                  + Implement my Local Topological Polyhedron Volume Formula
                  + Voronoi Diagrams with Barriers
                  + Interpolating Irregular Points with Voronoi Diagrams
             + Helping People Around RPI
                  + DSES WWW
                  + Freshman Commons Dining Hall
                  + Impedance Imaging Movie
                  + Physics WWW
                  + Dean of Faculty: Curriculum Reform WWW
                  + Library WWW
                  + GUI Design for Hydraulic Conductivity Test Assistant for
                    the Newton PDA
                  + EE Teaching Material
                  + Adirondack Adhesives WWW
                  + Alumni House PC Netscape
                  + Computer-Assisted Biomechanical Analysis of Oral Implant
                    Placement
                  + Microsoft Access
                  + Standardization of RPI's Environmentally-Oriented WWW
                  + Ocean Acoustic Propagation WWW
                  + ICME Web Site
                  + Campus Planning and Facilities Design
             + Programs and Data
                  + Javascript
                  + Mars Data
                  + ETOPO5 World Elevation and Bathymetric Data
                  + Digital Elevation Models of the US
                  + CIA World Databank of Coastlines and Borders
                  + POV Ray
                  + Holograms
                  + Stereograms
        o Geometry on the WWW
        o Seminar
             + Intel - Motherboard Design
        o RAA Needs Web Help This Weekend
        o Industry News
             + Digital's Strongarm Chip
             + Silicon Graphics Planning to Buy Cray Research
             + Artificial-Life Simulation Software
        o Job Announcements
             + Dialogic On-Campus Coop Recruiting
             + PSI - Systems Administrator
             + Buzzeo
             + Boston University - CS Dept
             + References
   * Handout #6 M3-4-96. My paper, Voronoi diagrams with barriers and on
     polyhedra for minimal path planning.
   * Handout #7 M3-4-96. Gold's paper, Surface interpolation as a Voronoi
     adjacency problem.
   * Handout #8 M3-4-96. Fortune's paper, A Sweepline algorithm for Voronoi
     diagrams.
   * Handout #9 W3-6-96. DVI, Hypertext, Compressed PS.
        o Web Stuff
             + Netscape
             + Java and JavaScript
             + Java
             + Java Security Hole
             + JavaScript
        o Industry News - 3-D TV Without The Funny Glasses
        o Seminars - Design Innovation at Black and Decker
        o Jobs - Rice Temp
        o Spring Break; Schnitzi.c
   * Handout #10 W3-20-96. DVI, Hypertext, Compressed PS.
        o Term Project Proposal
        o 12th Annual ACM Symposium on COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY
             + Federated Computing Research Conference
             + ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry
        o Geometry-Related IOCCC Entry
   * Handout #11: W3-6-96. Guibas and Stolfi.
   * Handout #12: W3-6-96: my grid summary paper.
   * Handout #13: W3-20-96: my 1981 CGIP hidden surface paper.
   * Handout #14: W3-20-96: Kankanhalli and my 1990 SIGGRAPH parallel hidden
     surface paper
   * Handout #15: W3-20-96: my Steensel raster graphics paper.
   * Handout #16: Aurenhammer's Voronoi survey.
   * Handout #17: Chazelle & Edelsbrunner's optimal edge intersection.
   * Handout #18: Wesley & Markowsky's 2 papers on fleshing out wire frames
     and projections.
   * Handout #19: Computational Geometry Tribune (Newsletter) #3.
   * Handout #20: Edelsbrunner, Simulation of Simplicity.
   * Handout #21: Clarkson, Las Vegas Linear Programming.