| Week |
Day/Date |
Topic / Readings |
Notes /
Additional Material |
Due / Deadline |
| 1 |
Tuesday 1/8 |
Introduction / Administrivia "Making 'em
MOVE!" |
Show: Toy Story Supplementary
Material DVD |
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Thursday 1/10 |
Illusions of Life
Read: Parent Chapter 1 |
Show: Tarzan DVD
Cartoon Laws of Physics
http://www.freetoon.com/
Thomas and Johnston pp15-44 |
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| 2 |
Tuesday 1/15 |
Maya Tutorial (Brostow, Chen, Park) |
In SGI Cluster |
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Thursday
1/17 12n-1pm
(MiRC 102) |
"Star
Wars Chess on the Holodeck" Ken Perlin
(NYU)
GVU Center Distinguished Lecture |
GVU Center
NYU MRL
http://www.kenperlin.com
See his Web Page for Examples of JAVA based animations |
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Thursday 1/17 |
Ken Perlin |
Assignment #1
OUT Machines |
| 3 |
Tuesday 1/22 |
Reality of Math
Read: Parent Chapter 2, Appendix B, Eberly Chapter 2
& 3 |
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Thursday 1/24 |
Key Frames & Interpolation
Read: Parent Chapter 3 (3.1-3.6), Appendix B, Eberly Chapter 2 |
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| 4 |
Tuesday 1/29 |
Key Frames & Interpolation
Read: Parent 3.1-3.6, Eberly 7.1-7.3 & 9.1 |
Buss and Fillmore, "Spherical
averages and applications to spherical splines and interpolation" TOG01
Volume 20 Issue 2. [pdf] |
slides in html
slides in pdf |
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Thursday 1/31 |
Articulated Figures: Motion Capture (VISIT
MoCap LAB) [Steve Park] [IRFAN away]
Read: Parent 6.7 |
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| 5 |
Tuesday 2/5 |
Interpolating Rotations |
Video: Tin Toy (Pixar
Shorts)
Simplistic Pictures
Excerpts from Disney's Snow White DVD II
Shoemake, "Animating Rotations with Quaternions" SIGGRAPH 85. [pdf] |
Assignment #1 DUE
slides in html
slides in pdf |
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Thursday 2/7 |
Articulated Figures: Motion Capture
Read Parent 6.7 |
MSR Project:
The
Process of Motion Capture- Dealing with the Data
www.vicon.com
www.biovision.com
www.locomotion.com
www.peakperform.com
www.motionanalysis.com
www.moves.com
Michael Jackson Ghost Video
Mummy Videos
Marlene Dietrich
animation produced by VCP
etc. |
slides in html
slides in pdf |
| 6 |
Tuesday 2/12 |
Being Rigid: Kinematics
Read: Parent 4.1-4.3, Eberly 6 |
humanMotion.html (Hodgins, GA Tech)
research.html
(Popivic, MIT)
MotionEditing
(Gleicher, Wisc)
ik.htm
(Elias)
kinematics
(Baker)
physmod95 (Grassia,
CMU)
ik.html (IKAN,
UPenn)
http://hms.upenn.edu/
jack.html (Jack,
UPenn)
http://www.curiouslabs.com (Poser)
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slides in html
slides in pdfAssignment #2 OUT (MoCAP) |
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Thursday 2/14 |
Being Flexible
Read: Parent 3.7-3.10, 4.4 |
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Friday 2/15 |
Last Day to DROP Courses *Talk to ME
before dropping* |
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| 7 |
Tuesday 2/19 |
Motion Editing
Project Ideas! |
- Bodenheimer, B., Rose, C., Rosenthal, S., and Pella, J.,
``The
Process of Motion Capture: Dealing with the Data'', Computer Animation
and Simulation '97, [PDF]
- Bruderlin , Williams, "Motion signal processing," SIGGRAPH 1995
- Gleicher. "Motion Path Editing". Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium
on Interactive 3D Graphics. March 2001. [PDF]
- Gleicher. Retargetting Motion to New Characters. Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 98. [PDF]
- Gleicher. "Motion Editing with Spacetime Constraints." Proceedings of
the 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics. 1997 [PDF]
- Lee and Shin, A Hierarchical Approach to Interactive Motion Editing, Siggraph '99
[PDF]
- Rose, C., Guenter, B., Bodenheimer, B., and Cohen, M.,
``Efficient Generation of Motion Transitions Using Spacetime Constraints'',
SIGGRAPH 96 [PDF]
- Rose, C., Cohen, M., and Bodenheimer, B.,
``Verbs
and Adverbs: Multidimensional Motion Interpolation'', IEEE Computer
Graphics and Applications, v. 18, no. 5, Sept. 1998, pp. 32-40. [PDF]
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CS4496/7496
Motion Editing slides/munging_data.ppt
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Thursday 2/21 |
Satisfy Constraints
Read: Parent 4.1-4.7
Project Ideas! |
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| 8 |
Tuesday 2/26 |
Particle Systems (Irfan Away!)
Read: Parent 4.5, 5.2, 5.3 |
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MASSIVE,
Lord of the
RingsRon Metoyer's Slides [PPT|PDF]
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Thursday 2/28 |
Guest Speaker:
Tom Malzbender, HP Labs
(Image-based
Rendering Research) |
Title: Polynomial Texture Maps (txt) |
HP
+
image-based graphics publications
+
image-based graphics presentations
+
image-based graphics demonstrations |
| 9 |
Tuesday 3/5 |
SPRING BREAK |
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Thursday 3/7 |
SPRING BREAK |
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| 10 |
Tuesday 3/12 |
Guest Speaker:
Jehee Lee
(CMU)
Final Projects Discussion. |
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Assignment #2 DUE (MoCap) |
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Thursday 3/14 |
Simulation. |
|
Physically Based Modeling: Principles and Practice,
(Witkin and Baraff SIGGRAPH Course Note 1997)
UNC Course of
Physics Based Simulation (Hirota, Lin, Manicha,
CS 290 Sprinf 1998) |
| 11 |
Tuesday 3/19 |
Project Proposals: Discussions and
Presentations. |
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Project Proposal DUE |
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Thursday 3/21 |
Simulation |
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| 12 |
Tuesday 3/26 |
Guest Speaker: Jerome Solomon, Brandon Craig,
Rhythm & Hues |
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Thursday 3/28 |
Guest Speaker: Wayne Wooten, PIXAR |
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| 13 |
Tuesday 4/2 |
Water, Fluids, Smoke, Fire |
Mark Carlson's SLIDEs (PPT
| HTML | PDF)
Movies: Ants (Flood Scene), Shrek (Shower Scene), Perfect Storm, Cast
Away.
Nick Foster's WEB page at
UPenn
Ron
Fedkiw's WEB Page at Stanford
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Thursday 4/4 |
Cloth & Hair |
Baraff , Witkin, "Large steps in cloth simulation" SIGGRAPH
1998 [ACM|PDF]
Anjyo , Usami , Kurihara "A
simple method for extracting the natural beauty of hair,"
SIGGRAPH 1992 [
PDF ]
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| 14 |
Tuesday 4/9 |
Guest Speaker: Greg
Turk / Georgia Tech*
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Thursday 4/11 |
Facial Animation
Parent 6.3, |
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Final Projects
Initial Review |
| 15 |
Tuesday 4/16 |
Guest Speaker: Bill Chapman,
Turner Studios |
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Thursday 4/18 |
Guest Speaker: Steve Sullivan,
ILM |
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| 16 |
Tuesday 4/23 |
Lab Session |
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Thursday 4/25 |
Final Projects SCREENING |
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Projects Due |
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Thursday 4/26, NOON |
All Equipment MUST be
RETURNED (See Mark) |
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| Finals |
Wednesday 5/1/02, 5:40pm |
Final Reports DUE by the end of FINAL EXAM
Period |
Report Includes
A. Fully Documented CODE, with executables and intructions
B. Document/Paper describing what was done
C. Update of CoWeb
D. Email describing Individual Contributions for TEAM Efforts. |
Reports Due (Including
Email RE: individual Contributions) |
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