{"id":1459,"date":"2024-01-25T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2024-01-25T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:16:23","slug":"reading-2-combinatorial-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/2024\/01\/25\/reading-2-combinatorial-surfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading 2: Combinatorial Surfaces (due Thu, Feb 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1461 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SmallestSimplicialTorus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SmallestSimplicialTorus.jpg 1732w, https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SmallestSimplicialTorus-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SmallestSimplicialTorus-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SmallestSimplicialTorus-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SmallestSimplicialTorus-1200x725.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 85vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your next reading will take a dive into purely combinatorial descriptions of surfaces,\u00a0<em>i.e.,<\/em> those that capture connectivity, but not geometry. \u00a0These descriptions and data structures will provide the foundation for all the geometry and algorithms we&#8217;ll build up in this class. \u00a0(The reading also provides the essential background for your first written and coding assignments!)<\/p>\n<p>The reading is Chapter 2, pages 7\u201320 of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~kmcrane\/Projects\/DDG\/paper.pdf\">course notes<\/a>, which can always be accessed from the link above.<\/p>\n<p>Your short 2-3 sentence summary is due by <strong>10am Eastern on February 1, 2024.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Handin instructions can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/assignments\/\">assignment page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your next reading will take a dive into purely combinatorial descriptions of surfaces,\u00a0i.e., those that capture connectivity, but not geometry. \u00a0These descriptions and data structures will provide the foundation for all the geometry and algorithms we&#8217;ll build up in this class. \u00a0(The reading also provides the essential background for your first written and coding assignments!) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/2024\/01\/25\/reading-2-combinatorial-surfaces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading 2: Combinatorial Surfaces (due Thu, Feb 1)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickisland.net\/DDGSpring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}