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Algorithms for Computer Animation
Fall 2002
Topics
- Animation Principles
- Keyframing
- Open Topic
- Motion Capture
- Particle Systems
- Constraints Extended Abstracts for Project Due
- Optimization
- Rigid Bodies
- Control of Rigid-Body Dynamics
- Automated Learning of Muscle Control
- Natural and Expressive Motion
- Approximating Physics
- Flexible Bodies
- Cloth
- Project Progress Reports
- Interactive Synthetic Characters (Prof. Blumberg)
- Smoke
- Fluids
- Motion Editing
- Higher-Level Behaviors
- Robot Controllers for Legged Locomotion
- Composable Controllers
- Open Topic Final Project Reports
Readings
- Thomas, Frank, and Ollie Jonston. “Our Procedures.” Chapter 9 in The Illlusion of Life: Disney Animation . Revised ed. Disney Editions, October 19, 1995. ISBN: 0786860707.
- Lasseter, John. Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation . SIGGRAPH 1987.
- Zhao, Jianmin, and Norman I. Badler. “Inverse kinematics positioning using nonlinear programming for highly articulated figures.” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 13, no. 4 (October 1994).
- Rose, Charles F.,III, Peter - Pike Sloan, and ael Cohen. “Artist-Directed Inverse Kinematic Using Radial Basis Function Interpolation_._ Eurographics Conference 2001.
- Witkin, Andrew, and Zoran Popovic. Motion Warping. SIGGRAPH 1995.
- Bodenheimer, Bobby, Charles F. Rose, III, Seth Rosenthal, and John Pella. The Process of Motion Capture: Dealing with the Data. Computer Animation and Simulation,‘97. Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop.
- Gleicher, Michael. Retargetting Motion to new character. SIGGRAPH 1998.
- Rose, Charles F., III, Michael Cohen, and Bobby Bodenheimer. “Verbs and Adverbs: Multidimensional Motion Interpolation.” IEEE Computer Graphics And Applications 18, no. 5.
- Brand, Matthew, and Aaron Hertzmann. Style machines. SIGGRAPH 2000.
- Li, Yan, Tianshu Wang, and Heung-Yeung Shum. Motion Textures: A Two - Level Statistical Model for Character Motion Synthesis. SIGGRAPH 2002.
- Kovar, Lucas, Michael Gleicher, and Fred Pighin. Motion Graphs. SIGGRAPH 2002.
- Arikan, Okan, and D. A. Interactive Motion Generation From Examples. SIGGRAPH 2002.
- Lee, Jehee, Jinxiang Chai, Paul S. A. Reitsma, Jessica K. Hodgins, and Nancy S. Pollard. Interactive Contol of Avatars Animated With Human Motion Data. SIGGRAPH 2002.
- Pullen, Katherine, and Christoph Bregler. Motion Capture Assisted Animation: Texturing and Synthesis. SIGGRAPH 2002.
- Karl Sims. Particle animation and rendering using data parallel computation. SIGGRAPH 1990.
- Reeves, William T. Particle systems - a technique for modeling a class of fuzzy objects. SIGGRAPH 1983.
- Hahn, James K. Realistic animation of rigid bodies. SIGGRAPH 1988.
- Milenkovic, Victor J., and Harald Schmidl. Optimization-based animation. SIGGRAPH 2001.
- Isaacs, Paul M., and Michael F. Cohen. Controlling dynamic simulation with kinematic constraints. SIGGRAPH 1987.
- Witkin, Andrew, and Michael Kass. Spacetime constraints. SIGGRAPH 1988.
- Grzeszczuk, Radek, Demetri Terzopoulos, and Geoffrey Hinton. NeuroAnimator: fast neural network emulation and control of physics-based models. SIGGRAPH 1998.
- Terzopoulos, Demetri, John Platt. Alan Barr, and Kurt Fleischer. Elastically deformable models. SIGGRAPH 1987.
- Stam, Jos. Stable Fluids. SIGGRAPH 1999.
- Foster, Nick, and Ronald Fedkiw. Practical animation of liquids. SIGGRAPH 2001.
- Marc H. Raibert, Jessica K. Hodgins. Animation of Dynamic Legged Locomotion. SIGGRAPH 1991.
- Faloutsos, Petros, Michiel van de Panne, and Demetri Terzopoulos. Composable controllers for physics - based character animation. SIGGRAPH 2001.
- Platt, John C., and Alan H. Barr. Constraints methods for flexible models. SIGGRAPH 1988.
- Cohen, Michael F. Interactive spacetime control for animation. SIGGRAPH 1992.
- Witkin, Andrew, and Michael Kass. Spacetime Constraints. SIGGRAPH 1988.
- Grzeszczuk, Radek, and Demetri Terzopoulos. Automated Learning of Muscle - Actuated Locomotion Through Control Abstraction. SIGGRAPH 1995.
- Brand, Matthew, and Aaron Hertzmann. _Style Machines._SIGGRAPH 2000.
- Terzopoulos, Demetri, John Platt, and Alan Barr, Kurt Fleischer. Elastically deformable models. SIGGRAPH 1987.
- Terzopoulos, Demetri, and Kurt Fleischer. Modeling inelastic deformation: viscolelasticity, plasticity, fracture. SIGGRAPH 1988.
- Baraff, David, and Andrew Witkin. Dynamic simulation of non - penetrating flexible bodies. SIGGRAPH 1992.
- Baraff, David, and Andrew Witkin. Large steps in cloth simulation.
- _———. Dynamic simulation of non-penetrating flexible bodies._SIGGRAPH 1998.
- Blumberg, Bruce, Marc Downie, Yuri Ivanov, Matt Berlin, Michael Patrick Johnson, and Bill Tomlinson. Integrated learning for interactive synthetic characters. SIGGRAPH 2002.
- Jos Stam. Stable Fluids. SIGGRAPH 1999.
- Rose, Charles F., III, Michael Cohen, and Bobby Bodenheimer. “Verbs and Adverbs: Multidimensional Motion Interpolation.” IEEE Computer Graphics And Applications 18, no. 5.
- Witkin, Andrew, and Zoran Popovic. Motion Warping. SIGGRAPH 1995.
- Faloutsos, Petros, Michiel van de Panne, and Demetri Terzopoulos. Composable controllers for physics-based character animation. SIGGRAPH 2001.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.