Computer Animation – M2R MOSIG

Overview

1. Kinematics 1
   • Introduction to kinematics
   • Motion capture and reuse
   • Assignment
   • See also:
     • Bill Baxter’s introduction to inverse kinematics
     • Numerical Recipes in C++: The Art of Scientific Computing Press, Teukolski, Vetterling, Flannery, Cambridge University Press
     • the Eigen matrix library
     • Versatile walk engine Ronan Boulic , Branislav Ulicny , Daniel Thalmann Journal of Game Development, 2004
2. Kinematic animation 2
   • Interpolation
   • Deformable surfaces: skinning, facial animation, morphing See also this nice intro on skeletal animation and skinning
   • Deformable surfaces: pose-space deformation
3. Physically-based animation 1: deformable objects
   • Introduction
   • Introduction to finite elements
   • Frame-based deformable models 1 and 2.
   • Assignment
   • See also:
     • Baraff and colleague’s courses and slides
     • Matthias Müller’s shape matching method, and  course on real-time physics
     • Sofa: an open source library for physical simulation
4. Physically-based animation 2
   • Constrained dynamics (from Baraff and Witkin’s siggraph course)
   • Collision detection slides (from Yoon and Manocha’s siggraph course)
   • An example of gpu collision detection and response

Exam 2013: M2R-graphics-exam2013