Courses Related to Hierarchical Methods for Simulation
This course,
15-859E,
is meant to lie between and to complement the following five courses
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15-852A, 21-860: Scientific Computation,
Gary Miller,
Noel Walkington.
Last taught Fall 1997.
(more theoretical and finite-element-method-oriented than this course)
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15-863: Physically Based Modeling,
Andrew Witkin, David Baraff.
Last taught Spring 1997.
(a computer graphics course;
also solves PDE's for interactive modeling and animation,
but doesn't use hierarchical methods much)
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15-862: Rendering,
Paul Heckbert.
Last taught Fall 1995.
(Also a different incarnation as
15-860: Global Illumination in Fall 1996.)
(a computer graphics course;
solves integral equations to simulate light radiation, among
other topics, uses hierarchical methods)
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21-624: Topics in Analysis: Wavelets,
Suzanne Tourville.
(more mathematical than this course; focuses on wavelets for the real
line, not as much on wavelets for finite domains or on applications)
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Algorithms in the Real World,
Guy Blelloch, Gary Miller, Danny Sleator.
(a survey course)
Other courses at CMU.
Paul Heckbert, April 1998