Teaching Interests

[Professor Hamann’s personal web page: http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~hamann/]

Professor Hamann’s main teaching interests are visualization, geometric design and modeling, and computer graphics.

Selected Recorded Lectures (also see: http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~hamann/lectures.shtml)

Advanced Visualization (ECS 277), Spring Quarter 2012
Individual ECS 277 Lectures Available via YouTube at:

• Lecture 2: Review of Essential Scalar Field Visualization Methods
• Lecture 3: Ray Casting Based on Higher-degree Polynomial Data Approximation
• Lecture 4: Ray Casting Based on Piecewise Trilinear and Tricubic Approximation
• Lecture 5: Review of Essential Vector (Flow) Field Visualization Methods
• Lecture 6: Topological Flow Field Analysis and Visualization (Linear Vector Field Theory)
• Lecture 7: Introduction to Scattered Data Approximation and Interpolation
• Lecture 8: Shepard’s and Hardy’s Multiquadric Methods for Data Interpolation
• Lecture 9: Motivation for Triangulation-based Scattered Data Approximation
• Lecture 10.1: Data Approximation Using Curved Elements – Part 1
• Lecture 10.2: Data Approximation Using Curved Elements – Part 2
• Lecture 11: Data Approximation over Triangle and Tetrahedral (Simplicial) Meshes
• Lecture 12: The Cubic Clough-Tocher Subdivision Scheme for Data Interpolation
• Lecture 13: Data Structure Considerations for Voronoi Diagrams
• Lecture 14: The Doo-Sabin Subdivision Scheme for Data Interpolation
• Lecture 15: Sibson Interpolation Using the Voronoi Diagram
• Lecture 16: Best Linear Spline Approximation (Univariate, Bivariate, Trivariate Cases)

2. Advanced Visualization (ECS 277), Spring Quarter 2001

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 3. Introduction to Geometric Modeling (ECS 178), Winter Quarter 2008

Available via iTunes U at:

iTunes U -> UC Davis -> Science and Engineering -> Courses – Computer Science: Introduction to Geometric Modeling (ECS178 – Video)

Individual ECS 178 Lectures also Available at:

• Lecture 1, January 8, 2008
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• Lecture 2, January 10, 2008
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• Lecture 3, January 15, 2008
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• Lecture 4, January 17, 2008
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• Lecture 5, January 22, 2008
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• Lecture 6, January 24, 2008
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• Lecture 7, January 28, 2008
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• Lecture 8, January 31, 2008
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• Lecture 9, February 5, 2008
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• Lecture 10, February 7, 2008
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• Lecture 11, February 12, 2008
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• Lecture 12, February 19, 2008
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• Lecture 13, February 21, 2008
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• Lecture 14, February 26, 2008
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• Lecture 15, February 28, 2008
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• Lecture 16, March 4, 2008
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• Lecture 17, March 6, 2008
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