Required Knowledge ================== Midterm ------- Mesh representation: - know what a Mesh is - Know what continuous Euclidean geometry is - describe and recognize a polygon soup - describe and recognize a polygon mesh - describe and recognize a triangular mesh - know what a voxel is - explain the difference between, unstructured explicit and implicit geometry - describe and define what a quad mesh, triangular and tiling mesh is - give an intuitive description of a surface - explain what faces, edges and vertices are, and how they are connected - be able to write down faces, edges and vertices in mathematical form - able to convert a mesh to a graph and back - know what valence and degree is and how to calculate it - a manifold is, and identify whether a mesh is manifold - able to determine the euler charactristic of a mesh or graph - read and contruct a triangle list in CW and CCW - what a triangle strip and fan is - read a triangle neighbor structure - read and write a winged edge structure - read and write a half edge structure as a DCEL