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Day |
Topic |
Due |
Assigned reading |
Resources |
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01 |
Aug 22, Tu |
Overview: Organization, Principles, Processing, Project 1a (timewarp) |
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1, 3.6 |
P1a, P1aOGL, Demos, car texture |
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02 |
Aug 24, Th |
Path: Polyloop subdivision and smoothing |
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B.4, curves, |
Wang |
| 03 |
Aug 29, Tu |
Speed control: interpolation of frames, Arc-length parameterization, |
P1a due |
3.1-2 |
P1b, |
| 04 |
Aug 31, Th |
Key-framed trajectories: Bezier, Bi-arcs, twist, smoothing polytwists, |
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3.4, |
Bezier, |
| 05 |
Sep 5, Tu |
Collision: Detection (balls, polygons), Prediction, |
P1b due |
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P1c, |
| 06 |
Sep 7, Th |
Dynamics : Simulation |
Quiz1 |
4.3.2, 4.6.2-4, 4.4 |
Car accidents, Drag, Witkin, Banach, Varga
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07 |
Sep 12 , Tu |
Particles: Dynamics |
P1c due |
4.5, Stern |
Metoyer, Jakobsen, Hecht, Whited, intertia |
| 08 |
Sep 14, Th |
Natural phenomena: CFD, Level sets, Water, Smoke, Clouds, Fire |
H1 due |
3.2, 5.2-3, Fedkiw |
Kim, H1 solution (King), (Carlson) |
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09 |
Sep 19, Tu |
Geometry (review): Vectors, Poses, Transforms, Camera Control |
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2.1, A.4, B.1-3, 3.4.1, 4.1 |
G2D |
| 10 |
Sep 21, Th |
GUEST LECTURE: Electronic Arts |
P1d due |
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AP1d |
| 11 |
Sep 26, Tu |
Interpolating motion: Quaternions, Screws, Smoothing |
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2.2-3, 3.3, 3.5, A.4 |
Screwbender |
| 12 |
Sep 28, Th |
PROJECT AWARDS + Mark Carlson, Disney Animation |
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13 |
Oct 3, Tu |
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS: P1 |
Projects |
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14 |
Oct 5, Th |
MIDTERM |
solution |
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15 |
Oct 10, Tu |
Triangle
meshes: Representation, Topology, Traversal |
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3.4.3, meshes, |
Ch, |
| 16 |
Oct 12, Th |
Analysis: Curvature, Geodesic path, isolation, skeleton |
P2 due |
3.9.5, |
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| 17 |
Oct 19, Th |
Deformations: FFD, Twister, Bender |
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3.4.1, 3.7 |
Twisters, Bender, Nealen, Akleman |
| 18 |
Oct 24, Tu |
Morphing: Minkowski Morph, Ball Morph |
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3.8, 3.9, A.2 |
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| 19 |
Oct 26, Th |
Collision detection: Mesh intersections, hierarchies, hardware |
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| 20 |
Oct 31, Tu |
Implicit surfaces: Formulation, Tessellation, Collisions |
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4.6 |
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21 |
Nov 2, Th |
Rigid body: Dynamics, Free fall, Contacts |
P4 due |
4.3, B.6 |
Processing Images , pendulum |
| 22 |
Nov 7, Tu |
Articulated structures: Kinematics, Dynamics |
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4.2, 5.1 |
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| 23 |
Nov 9, Th |
Soft bodies: Spring/mass systems, Energy minimization, Constraints |
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4.4 |
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24 |
Nov 14, Tu |
Grasp: Arm/hand model, Movements, Reaching, Strength |
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6.1 |
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| 25 |
Nov 16, Th |
Quiz |
solution |
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| 26 |
Nov 21, Tu |
Guest Lecture by Professor Hock Soon Seah from NTU on Cel Animation |
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6.2, 6.4 |
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| 27 |
Nov 28, Tu |
MOtion CAPture: Acquisition, Reuse, Faces |
P5 due |
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28 |
Nov 30, Th |
Papers/Projects presentations (Graduate Students) |
Papers |
6.3, 3.4.5, 6.6 |
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| 29 |
Dec 5, Tu |
Projects presentations (Undergraduate Students) |
Projects |
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| 30 |
Dec 7, Th |
REVISIONS |
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Dec 11-4 |
Finals week (closed books, 2 pages of notes permitted) |
Final |
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| Project |
Title |
Phases |
Teams of |
% of P grade |
| P1 |
Accident recreator |
Speed control (a), Uniform sampling (b), Keyframe interpolation (c), Motion editor for car crash reports (d) |
2 |
30% |
| P2 |
Juggling clubs (in Maya) |
Design club, Animate motion, Synchronize 3 clubs, Render (with texture and motion blur), Video, Explain how it was done, post |
2 |
15% |
P3 |
3D Motion Editor cancelled |
GUI for pose editing, Chain screws, ScrewBender |
1 |
20% |
| P4 |
Caricatures |
Planar textured triangle mesh, Warp (a), Morph (b), Produce Processing applet with morph between faces or animated caricature deformation |
1 |
25% |
| P5 |
Proposed by each team |
Story, Emotions, Humor, Special Effects, Constrained motions |
3 |
30% |
