Schedule

Instructor:

Irfan Essa (web page) Location: 

CoCB 102

TA:

Mark Carlson (web page) Day/Time:

Tuesday  - Thursday 1:35pm-2:55pm

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OSCAR Spring 2002 Official School Calendar January 8, 2001 - April 25, 2002

Schedule WILL change depending on various factors

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  
  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
 
2 Tuesday 1/15 Maya Tutorial (Brostow, Chen, Park) In SGI Cluster  
*** 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
 
  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
 
  Thursday 1/24 Key Frames & Interpolation
Read: Parent Chapter 3 (3.1-3.6), Appendix B, Eberly Chapter 2
   
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
  Thursday 1/31 Articulated Figures: Motion Capture (VISIT MoCap LAB) [Steve Park] [IRFAN away]
Read: Parent 6.7
   
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
  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)

slides in html
slides in pdf

Assignment #2 OUT (MoCAP)

  Thursday 2/14 Being Flexible
Read: Parent 3.7-3.10, 4.4
   
  Friday 2/15  Last Day to DROP Courses *Talk to ME before dropping*    
7 Tuesday 2/19 Motion Editing
Project Ideas!
CS4496/7496 Motion Editing

slides/munging_data.ppt

 

  Thursday 2/21 Satisfy Constraints
Read: Parent 4.1-4.7
Project Ideas!
   
8 Tuesday 2/26 Particle Systems (Irfan Away!)
Read: Parent 4.5, 5.2, 5.3
  MASSIVE,
Lord of the Rings

Ron Metoyer's Slides [PPT|PDF]
 

  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  
  Thursday 3/7 SPRING BREAK  
10 Tuesday 3/12 Guest Speaker: Jehee Lee (CMU)

Final Projects Discussion.

  Assignment #2 DUE (MoCap)
  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.

  Project Proposal DUE
  Thursday 3/21 Simulation    
12 Tuesday 3/26 Guest Speaker: Jerome Solomon, Brandon Craig, Rhythm & Hues    
  Thursday 3/28 Guest Speaker: Wayne Wooten, PIXAR    
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

 

 
  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 ]
 

 
14 Tuesday 4/9 Guest Speaker: Greg Turk / Georgia Tech*    
  Thursday 4/11 Facial Animation
Parent 6.3,
Final Projects Initial Review
15 Tuesday 4/16 Guest Speaker: Bill Chapman, Turner Studios    
  Thursday 4/18 Guest Speaker: Steve Sullivan, ILM  
16 Tuesday 4/23 Lab Session  
  Thursday 4/25 Final Projects SCREENING   Projects Due
  Thursday 4/26, NOON All Equipment MUST be RETURNED (See Mark)    
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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