Description

This course is intended to provide key ideas in physically based animation. This course will cover particle system, rigid body dynamics, articulated figure dynamics, flexible object simulation, and optimization techniques.

Instructor

Jehee Lee

Office: 302-325

Phone: 880-1845

Class hours

Monday and Wednesday 4:00-5:15pm

Classroom

Building 302, Room 308

Pre-Requisites

Undergraduate computer graphics

Programming skill for C or C++

Programming skill for OpenGL are not required, but recommended

Grading policy

Classroom presentation: 20 %

Programming assignments: 40%

Schedule

Week 1

9 / 1

 Course information

9 / 3

 Principles of Animation

 Coordinate-free geometric programming

Week 2

9 / 8

 Transformation

9 / 10

 No class (추석)

Week 3

9 / 15

 Rotation and orientation

9 / 17

 Affine combination of quaternions

Week 4

9 / 22

 Differential equation basics

 Particle dynamics

• We will use siggraph course notes "Physically Based Modelling" by Andrew Witkin, David Baraff, and Michael Kass. The slides are available at http://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/research/pbm2001/index.html

9 / 24

 Implicit methods

 Cloth and fur

Week 5

9 / 29

 Rigid body dynamics

10 / 1

 Constrained dynamics

Week 6

10 / 6

 Collision and contact

10 / 8

 Collision force computation vs. Impulse-based approaches

• [이강훈] D. Baraff. Fast contact force computation for nonpenetrating rigid bodies. Siggraph 94. [paper]

• [정훈] E. Guendelman, R. Bridson, and R. Fedkiw. Nonconvex rigid bodies with stacking. Siggraph 03. [paper]

Week 7

10 / 13

 Kinematics

10 / 15

 No class (개교기념일)

Week 8

10 / 20

 Inverse kinematics

10 / 22

 Introduction to SD/Fast [manual]

• You can download the SD/FAST manual from www.sdfast.com

Week 9

10 / 27

 SD/Fast tutorial will be continued

• Programming assignment #2 hand-in

10 / 29

 Inspiration from biomechanics and ecology

• How animals move: An Integrative view, M. K. Dickinson, Claire. T. Farley, R. J. Full, M. A. R. Koehl, R. Kram, and S. Lehman, Science, Vol. 288, April 2000. [paper]

Week 10

11 / 3

 Simulation and control

• [장정우] J. Laszlo, M. van de Panne, and E. Fiume. Interactive Control for Physically-Based Animation. SIGGRAPH 2000. Available from http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/~jflaszlo/interactive-control.html.

11 / 5

 Interactive control of rigid body simulation

• [석광원] Jovan Popovic, Steven M. Seitz, Michael Erdmann, Zoran Popovic, Andrew Witkin. Interactive Manipulation of Rigid Body Simulations. Siggraph 2000. Available from http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~jovan/design-project.html.

Week 11

11 / 10

 Guest speaker: Prof. Nancy Pollard from CMU will give a talk

11 / 12

 Plausible simulation

• [이지은] Stephen Chenney and D.A.Forsyth, Sampling Plausible Solutions to Multi-Body Constraint Problems. SIGGRAPH 2000. Available from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~schenney/research/directing/mcmc/index.html.

Week 12

11 / 17

 Controller design

• Programming assignment #3 hand-in

• Supplementary material: PEND.SD, constraints.c

11 / 19

 Adapting controllers

• [윤승현] J. K. Hodgins and N. S. Pollard, 1997. Adapting Simulated Behaviors For New Characters, SIGGRAPH 97.

• Programming assignment #4 out

Week 13

11 / 24

 Composing controllers

• [고대현] P. Faloutsos, M. van de Panne, and D. Terzopoulos. Composable Controllers for Physics-Based Character Animation. SIGGRAPH 2001, p. 251-260.

11 / 26

 Optimization techniques

Week 14

12 / 1

 Sensors and actuators

• [서준호] M. van de Panne and E. Fiume. Sensor-actuator Networks, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH `93. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1993, 335-342.

12 / 3

 Animal locomotion

• [황태진] J. Wu and Z. Popovic. Realistic Modeling of Bird Flight Animation, SIGGRAPH 93.