| Class | Topics | Class Material (powerpoint and pdf) |
Readings | Assignment due dates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Wednesday Sept. 22 |
Introduction Overview of algorithms and techniques Key framing, simulation, digitizing |
Ch. 1 | |||
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Friday Sept. 24 |
Brief intro to computer animation Lab #1: main program, aniamtion module |
Ch1: ppt, pdf | Ch. 1 | Lab1 | |
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Monday Sept. 27 |
Review: matrices, transformations Curve interpolation: linear, Lagrange |
Ch2: ppt, pdf | Ch. 2 | ||
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Wednesday Sept. 29 |
Curve interpolation: piecewise cubic interpolation Path Following |
Ch2: ppt, pdf | Ch. 2 | Lab1 due Lab 2 | |
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Friday Oct. 1 |
curve interpolation: end condition handling
Acceleration control: ease-in/ease-out Representing Orientation Rotation matrix Fixed angles Euler angles |
Ch3: ppt, pdf | Ch. 3 | ||
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Monday Oct. 4 |
Representing orientation: properties of rotation matrices, Euler angle v. fixed angle, Gimbal lock, determining rotation matrix from alignment vector | Ch3: ppt, pdf | Ch. 3 | Lab 3 | |
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Wednesday Oct. 6 |
Path Following w/ Orientation Frenet Frame, Computing derivatives along a cubic curve, Banking into curves Quaternions: representation, mathematical operations, concatenation, Interpolation (slerp) | Ch3: ppt, pdf | Ch. 3 | Lab 2 due | |
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Friday Oct. 8 |
Smooth interpolation with quaterions:
bisect, double operations;
Bezier control point construction;
Bezier interpolation in quaternion space
Interpolation based animation: briefly - FFDs, Morphing | Ch4: ppt, pdf | Ch. 4 | ||
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Monday Oct. 11 |
Hierarchical Modeling and Animation tree representation of nodes (segments) and arcs (transformations) rendering: tree traversal animating: modifying transformations |
Ch5: ppt, pdf | Ch. 5 | Lab 3 due
Lab 4 |
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Wednesday Oct. 13 |
Inverse kinematics Analytic: pseudo-inverse of the Jacobian |
Ch5: ppt, pdf | Ch. 5 | ||
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Friday Oct. 15 |
Inverse kinematics Analytic: pseudo-inverse of the Jacobian Control terms and damped solutions | Ch5: ppt, pdf | Ch. 5 | ||
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Monday Oct. 18 |
other IK techniques Alternative Jacobian Transpose of the Jacobian Cyclic Coordinate Descent |
Ch5: ppt, pdf | Ch. 5 | Lab 4 due | |
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Wednesday Oct. 20 |
Review: numerical integration: Euler integration Runge-Kutta integration Methods to update position from acceleration |
Ch7 integration:
ppt,
pdf
implicit method | Ch. 7 | Lab 5 | |
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Friday Oct. 22 |
Review: physics: gravity: 2-body gravitation, earth gravity viscosity spring-damper system simple collision detection & response particle systems | Ch7 physics: ppt, pdf | Ch. 7 | ||
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Monday Oct. 25 |
Review particle systems and spring-damper-mass systems: state vector, update vector Review basic physics: momentum, kinetic energy, center of mass Angular terms: angluar velocity, momentum, torque, and inertia tensor | Ch7 physics: ppt, pdf | Ch. 7 | ||
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Wednesday Oct. 27 |
Rigid body dynamics | Ch7 physics: ppt, pdf | Ch. 7 |
Lab 5 due Lab 6 | |
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Friday Oct. 29 |
MIDTERM | ||||
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Monday Nov. 1 |
Collisions: groundplane detection, kinematic response, penalty method | Ch7 collisions: ppt, pdf | Ch. 7 | ||
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Wednesday Nov. 3 |
Collisions: polyhedral detection | Ch7 collisions: ppt, pdf | Ch. 7 | ||
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Friday Nov. 5 |
Collision: impulse force of collision | Ch7 collisions: ppt, pdf | Ch. 7 | ||
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Monday Nov. 8 |
Constraints: Energy minimization & spacetime constraints | Ch7 constraints: ppt, pdf | Ch. 7 |
Lab6 due Lab 7 |
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Wednesday Nov. 10 | Dynamics of linked appendages: the Featherstone Equations | Ch7 featherstone: ppt, pdf | Ch. 7 | ||
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Friday Nov. 12 |
Behavioral animation: knowning the environmentg FOV Vision Computing Occlusion Other senses Modeling memory | Ch11 behavior: ppt, pdf | Ch. 11 | ||
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Monday Nov. 15 |
Behavioral animation - flocking: Emergent behavior, Global v. local,
Speed matching, Separation maintenance, Centering urge
Prey-Preditor model: attribute variation, vision modeling shape modeling | Ch11 behavior: ppt, pdf | Ch. 11 |
Lab 7 due Lab 8 | |
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Wednesday Nov. 17 |
Crowd modeling: cellular v. continuous models, crowd control, MASSIVE, crowd simulation, large scale crowd, dense crowd, stadium evacuation, exit seating simulation crowd w/ Massive, at UPenn, at Trinity College | Ch11 crowds: ppt, pdf | Ch. 11 | ||
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Friday Nov. 19 |
Review crowds Human figures representation: polygons, patches, subdivision surfaces, implicit surfaces,figure capture Figure Activities: Reaching, modeling the arm, grasping, modeling the hand |
Ch9: ppt, pdf | Ch. 9 | ||
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Monday Nov. 22 |
Virtual Humans
Reaching & grasping: reaching, hand animation Walking: walk cycle, MIRALab, | Ch9: ppt, pdf | Ch. 9 |
Lab 8 due Project | |
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Wednesday Nov. 24 | Facial animation: '97 panel | Ch9: ppt, pdf |
Ch. 9
Ch. 10 | ||
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Monday Nov. 29 |
Clothes:
virtual clothing
Hair: hair, |
hair:
ppt,
pdf
clothes: ppt, pdf | Ch. 9 | ||
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Wednesday Dec. 1 |
Motion Capture: technology, camera registration, data recording, data processing, motion reconstruction motion editing, retargeting, motion graphs |
Ch6:
ppt,
pdf
Accad Lab CMU mocap | Ch. 6 | ||
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Friday Dec. 3 |
CFD: Basic equations, 2d smoke simulation
Animations Review |
CFD:
ppt,
pdf
N-S eqs | Ch. 8 | ||
| Finals Week | |||||
| Monday Dec. 6 | Project demo @1:30 | Project due | |||
| Tuesday Dec. 7 | Project demo @1:30 | ||||
| Wednesday Dec.8 1:30-3:18pm |
Final Exam | ||||
Last updated 11/23/10