Contents: Organization, Course Outline, Assignments, Resources, Lectures, Project, Project, Presentation Schedule
Time and Place: Classes will be live in Zoom Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:20 AM and Thursday 12:30 - 1:50 PM Waterloo time.
I will post videos and slides after each lecture for those who cannot attend 'live'.
Credit:
Collaboration policy: The work you hand in must be your own. The value of the assignment is in doing it yourself. Acknowledge any sources (human or non-human) you have used. You may discuss the assignment questions verbally with others, but you should come away from these discussions with no written or electronic records and you must acknowledge the discussion. If you use an electronic source or a research article, again, read it, then close it, then compose your solution and acknowledge your source. Write your solutions in your own words, from your own head. Any assistance received (from human or nonhuman sources) that is not given proper citation may be considered a violation of the university policies.
Assignments should be handed in as pdf in email. You may scan handwritten solutions but please make sure they are easy to read.
Note that some due dates are 1 week apart and others are 2 weeks apart.
Due | ||
Assignment 1 pdf tex | Thursday Sept. 17 | |
Assignment 2 pdf tex | Thursday Sept. 24 | |
Assignment 3 pdf tex | Thursday Oct. 8 | |
Assignment 4 pdf tex | Thursday Oct. 22 | |
Assignment 5 pdf tex | Friday Oct. 30 | |
Assignment 6 pdf tex | Friday Nov. 13 |
Topics:
L01 | Tu Sep 8 | slides | Every polygon can be triangulated. The Art Gallery Theorem. |
L02 | Th Sep 10 | slides | O(n log n) time triangulation algorithm via trapezoidization and plane sweep. |
L03 | Tu Sep 15 | slides | Partitioning polygons and polyhedra. |
L04 | Th Sep 17 | slides | Convex Hulls in the Plane |
L05 | Tu Sep 22 | slides | Convex Hulls in 3D and higher |
L06 | Th Sep 24 | slides | More on Convex Hull - randomized incremental algorithm |
L07 | Tu Sep 29 | slides | Linear Programming |
L08 | Th Oct 1 | slides | Planar Point Location and Range Searching |
L09 | Tu Oct 6 | slides | Voronoi diagrams |
L10 | Th Oct 8 | slides | Voronoi diagrams, continued. |
L11 | Tu Oct 20 | slides | Delaunay Triangulations, continued. |
L12 | Th Oct 22 | slides | Triangulations |
L13 | Tu Oct 27 | slides | Triangulations, continued |
L14 | Th Oct 29 | slides | Arrangements |
L15 | Tu Nov 3 | slides | Shortest Paths |
L16 | Th Nov 5 | slides | Motion Planning |
L17 | Tu Nov 10 | slides | Curves, Trajectories, Frechet distance |
L18 | Th Nov 12 | slides | Spanners, Routing, Networks |
Academic Integrity: In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloo community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility.
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Grievance: A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her university life has been unfair or unreasonable may have grounds for initiating a grievance. Read Policy 70 - Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4. When in doubt please be certain to contact the department's administrative assistant who will provide further assistance.
Intellectual Property: Students should be aware that this course contains the intellectual property of their instructor, TA, and/or the University of Waterloo. Intellectual property includes items such as:
Course materials and the intellectual property contained therein, are used to enhance a student's educational experience. However, sharing this intellectual property without the intellectual property owner's permission is a violation of intellectual property rights. For this reason, it is necessary to ask the instructor, TA and/or the University of Waterloo for permission before uploading and sharing the intellectual property of others online (e.g., to an online repository). Permission from an instructor, TA or the University is also necessary before sharing the intellectual property of others from completed courses with students taking the same/similar courses in subsequent terms/years. In many cases, instructors might be happy to allow distribution of certain materials. However, doing so without expressed permission is considered a violation of intellectual property rights.
Please alert the instructor if you become aware of intellectual property belonging to others (past or present) circulating, either through the student body or online. The intellectual property rights owner deserves to know (and may have already given their consent).
Note for Students with Disabilities: The AccessAbility office, located in Needles Hall Room 1401, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations to lessen the impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Services at the beginning of each academic term.