CIS 563: Physically
Based Animation (Spring 2009)
Time: MW 1:30-3pm
Room: Towne 309
Instructor: Alla
Safonova
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TA: Benjamin Sunshine-Hill
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Email: bsunshin@seas.upenn.edu |
Detailed
Course Syllabus (Will change, check regularly)
New Announcements:
We
will have Final Project presentations this Thursday, May 7 at 2pm (instructions are here).
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Old Announcements: You
have 5 late days that you can use towards all of your assignments. More motion capture data for
assignment #1 can be found here: http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/ ASF/AMC format description: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~kiranb/animation/StartupCodeDescription.htm HW2
Theoretical Questions have been posted on homework website. Here is a direct
link: wh2_questions Final Project Presentations will be
on Thursday, May 7 at 2pm (it will take from 2 to 2.5 hours) Professor
Katherine Kuchenbecker will give introduction to haptics in our class on
Monday, March 2 Course Syllabus Changed – I moved
few topics forward in order for you to have more material to start thinking
about a topic for the final project We will have a demo and explanation
of how to use our new Vicon Motion Capture system on Monday, March 16 (in the
lab) We
will have project2 presentations this Wednesday at regular class time in
Levine 307 (notice location change). Come a bit early if you can. Pizza
will be there at 1:15pm. We will start promptly at 1:30. Submit your presentation to Ben by
midnight on Tuesday (instructions are
here). We
will have Final Project Proposal presentations this Wednesday. Submit your presentation to
blackboard by Wednesday at 9am (instructions
are here). |
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Course Description
This course introduces students to common physically based simulation
techniques for animation of fluids and gases, rigid and deformable solids, cloth,
explosions, fire, smoke, virtual characters, and other systems. Physically
based simulation techniques allow for creation of extremely realistic special
effect for movies, video games and surgical simulation systems. We will learn state of the art techniques
that are commonly used in current special effect and animation studios and in
video game community. To gain hands-on experience, students implement basic
simulators for several systems. The course is appropriate for both upper level
undergraduate and graduate students.
Prerequisites
Students should have a good knowledge of object oriented programming and
basic familiarity with linear algebra and physics. Some background in computer
graphics is helpful.
List
of Topics
o Finite Element Methods o
Finite
Difference Methods o
Collision
Detection & Response o
Stability and
Implicit Integration o
Level Set
Methods o
Smoothed
Particle Hydrodynamics o
Model Reduction
Techniques o Simulation Control |
Grading
Grading will be based on a number of programming assignments.
Very preliminary assignment list (can change):
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Textbook
There is no required text book for this class. Lecture notes will be provided
for each class. Also supplemental reading material is linked from the syllabus.
Good resources:
Physically
Based Deformable Models in Computer Graphics by Andrew Nealen, Mathias
Muller, Richard Keiser, Eddy Boxerman and Mark Carlson (Nice survey paper
of the field)
Physically Based
Modeling (The 2001 course notes by Baraff and Witkin)
Fluid
simulation (SIGGRAPH 07 course notes on by Bridson et. al.)
Computer
Animation Information Page (Rick Parent's page with large number of links)
Hecker
Articles(Rigid body dynamics)
Useful Books (not required):
Fluid Simulation for
Computer Graphics (Robert Bridson,
A K Peters, 2008)
Physics Based Animation (Book by Erleben, Sporring,
Henriksen, Dohlmann)
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Detailed
Course Syllabus From Spring 2008 is available here |