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Crowd Simulation Ankur Jain & Harsha Madhyastha In our work, we address the problem of simulating crowds. Modeling crowd behavior in a realistic manner is of great significance in the motion picture industry. Current approaches, employed by industry heavyweights such as ILM and made use of in the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, are mainly based on hand-picked rules dependent on the scene being modeled. What one would ideally like to have is a generic framework which generates scenes given some input parameters which characterize the crowd behavior. |
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Arcimboldo Johan Hesselberg & Sandra Fan Italian Renaissance painter Guiseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was famed for his "composite head" paintings, whereby faces were composed using images of fruits and vegetables. The goal of this project is to recreate Arcimboldo's style by using a database of images, "sprites," as tiles to fill in segments of an image we provide by matching the contours of the image with the contours of the sprites. |
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Animating Fish Noah Snavely & Masaharu Kobashi The goal of our project is to automatically produce realistic animations of a moving fish. As the recent film "Finding Nemo" has proved, animating fish is a lucrative business, and having automatic techniques to do this would reduce the labor associated with traditional animation. |
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Dr. Seuss Lincoln Ritter & Lucas Kreger-Stickles Our project generates non-photorealistic images in the style of Dr. Seuss in real time. Our system allows animators to apply a fur-like, puffy, other otherwise complex "geometric texture" to simply primitives to create complex, artistic images in real time. |
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Caustics and Water
Simulation Donna Calhoun & Lillie Kittredge We simulated the movement of water and used photon mapping to simulate caustics as would be seen in such a simulation. Both of these goals are for the purpose of creating more realistic animation. |
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Physical Simulation of
Cloth Craig Prince & Jeff Bigham Cloth is ubiquitous in our world but in each peice of even the most everyday peice of cloth exists a plethora of bumps, oscillations, and distortions. Cloth bends, twists, and moves in a number of interesting and surprising ways as it is acted upon by various forces and, as a result, modelling such a material is interesting in theory and has the potential for amazing results. We wanted to develop a system that would allow us to realistically simulate the physical properties of cloth. |
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Panoramic Stitching Gaurav Bhaya & Atri Rudra Panoramic Stitching is a method of creating a panoramic (a full 360 degrees) view from consecutively clicked pictures from a camera. |
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RoboAnimator Ethan Phelps-Goodman & Mike Cafarella RoboAnimator is an animation assistant tool. It lets the user adjust parameters that describe basic animation principles we learned about in class. These parameters modify a basic animation script. Although the user does very little work, and the underlying script remains exactly the same, the tool can generate a large number of different animations. The user can then use RoboAnimator to learn about animation, or choose the best possible available movie. |
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Image Analogies Vaishnavi Sannidhanam & Jiun-Hung Chen Given a pair of images A and A' we can create the effect of A' on A, over the target image B which can be rendered as B'. |