Schedule: Computer Animation CS 7496

Overview of Animation Techniques.

Read: Parent Chapter 1

Principles of Animations:
Cartoon Laws of Physics
http://www.freetoon.com/
Thomas and Johnston pp15-44
Comet-Cartoons
SIGGRAPH (Animation HyperGraph)
Webreference
 

• Shoemake, "Animating Rotations with Quaternions" SIGGRAPH 85. [pdf]
• Buss  and Fillmore, "Spherical averages and applications to spherical splines and interpolation" TOG01 Volume 20 Issue 2. [pdf]

Ben Wong

slides in html
slides in pdf

*POSTPONED*
Discussion of PS2

Assignment #2 OUT (MoCAP)

• Demetri Terzopoulos , John Platt , Alan Barr , Kurt Fleischer, Elastically deformable models, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.21 n.4, p.205-214, July 1987 [PDF]
• J. C. Platt , A. H. Barr, Constraint methods for flexible models, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics, p.279-288, August 01-05, 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, United States [PDF]

• Gleicher. "Motion Path Editing". Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics. March 2001. [PDF]

Additional Reading

• 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. 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]
• 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]

Additional Reading

• Rose, C., Guenter, B., Bodenheimer, B., and Cohen, M., ``Efficient Generation of Motion Transitions Using Spacetime Constraints'', SIGGRAPH 96 [PDF]
• Lee and Shin, A Hierarchical Approach to Interactive Motion Editing, Siggraph '99 [PDF]

slides/munging_data.ppt

• Kovar , Gleicher , Pighin, "Motion Graphs" SIGGRAPH 2002 July 2002 [PDF]

Additional Reading

• Pullen, Katherine, and Christoph Bregler, "Motion Capture Assisted Animation: Texturing and Synthesis",  SIGGRAPH 2002 July 2002 [PDF]

Assignment #2 part 1 DUE (MoCap)

Particle Systems I
Read: Parent 4.5, 5.2, 5.3

Final Projects Discussion.

• Karl Sims, Particle animation and rendering using data parallel computation, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.24 n.4, p.405-413, Aug. 1990. [PDF]

Ron Metoyer's Slides [PPT|PDF]

Particle Systems II
Read: Parent 4.5, 5.2, 5.3

• Richard Szeliski , David Tonnesen, Surface modeling with oriented particle systems, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.26 n.2, p.185-194, July 1992 [PDF]

Project Proposals: Discussions and Presentations.

• D. Baraff, Analytical methods for dynamic simulation of non-penetrating rigid bodies, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.23 n.3, p.223-232, July 1989 [PDF|]
• Brian Mirtich , John Canny, "Impulse-based simulation of rigid bodies" Proceedings of the 1995 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics April 1995 [PDF|ACM]

Additional Readings

• David Baraff, Coping with friction for non-penetrating rigid body simulation, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.25 n.4, p.31-41, July 1991 [PDF]
• David Baraff , Andrew Witkin, Dynamic simulation of non-penetrating flexible bodies, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.26 n.2, p.303-308, July 1992 [PDF]

Rob Melby

UNC Course of Physics Based Simulation (Hirota, Lin, Manicha, CS 290 Sprinf 1998)

• Jos Stam, Stable fluids, Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 1999 annual conference on Computer graphics, p.121-128, August 08-13, 1999, Los Angeles, California, United States [PDF]
• Fedkiw, Stam, Jensen, "Visual Simulation of Smoke", SIGRAPH 2001. [PDF]

Optional

• Jos Stam , Eugene Fiume, Turbulent wind fields for gaseous phenomena, SIGGRAPH 1993 [PDF]
• Jos Stam , Eugene Fiume, Depicting fire and other gaseous phenomena using diffusion processes, SIGGRAPH 1995[PDF]
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• PPT
• Ron Fedkiw's site (videos)
• Visual Simulation of Smoke
• Stable Fluids
• Realistic Animation of Liquids

• Mark Carlson's SLIDEs (PPT | HTML |  PDF)
• Movies: Ants (Flood Scene), Shrek (Shower Scene), Perfect Storm, Cast Away.

• Foster et al. "Realistic Animation of Liquids" Graphical Models and Image Processing", 58(5), 1996, pp 471--483. [PDF]
• Enright, Marschner, Fedkiw, "Animation and Rendering of Complex Water Surfaces", SIGGRAPH 2002.[PDF|WEB]

Optional

• Nick Foster , Dimitris Metaxas, Modeling the motion of a hot, turbulent gas, SIGGRAPH 1997 [PDF]
• Nick Foster , Ronald Fedkiw, Practical animation of liquids, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques August 2001 [PDF]

• Robert Ogilvie
• (Realistic Animation of Liquids)
• Tazama St. Julien

Wayne Wooten (Pixar)

• O'Brien, J. F., Hodgins, J. K., (1999) Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture. The proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 99, Los Angeles, California, August 8-13, pp 137-146. This paper has received the SIGGRAPH 99 Impact award.
• James F. O'Brien, Adam W. Bargteil, Jessica K. Hodgins, "Graphical Modeling and Animation of Ductile Fracture", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) , Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, 21(3), (SIGGRAPH 2002) July 2002 [PDF]

• Baraff , Witkin, "Large steps in cloth simulation" SIGGRAPH 1998 [ACM|PDF]
• Choi, Ko, "Stable but Responsive Cloth",  SIGGRAPH 2002 July 2002 [PDF].

• Mel Eriksen
• Jamie Lynn

• Anjyo , Usami , Kurihara "A simple method for extracting the natural beauty of hair," SIGGRAPH 1992 [ PDF ]
• Integration Methods and Deformable Models

Numerical Recipes BOOK

• Chap 16: Integration ..
• Runge-Kutta Method
• Adaptive Stepsize Control for Runge-Kutta
• Modified Midpoint Method
• Stiff Sets of Equations

Parent 6.3,

• Bregler et al. "Video Rewrite" [PDF]
• Geunter et al. "Making Faces"[PDF]

• Charles Brubaker
• James Vanderhyde