cse558 Physics Based Computer Animation

Spring Quarter 2000


Course Calendar

The course calendar below gives the lecture topics, assignment and due dates for projects.  The calendar is subject to change during the quarter.

Week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

March 27

28

 

Introduction

Particle systems

29

30

 

Differential equations

1

 

2

April 3

 

4

 

Differential constraints

 

Project 1 out

5

6

 

Rigid-body simulation

 

 

7

 

 

3

10

11

 

Collision detection

Collision response

12

 

13

 

Inverse Control of Simulations

14

 

4

17

 

18

 

Inverse kinematics

Automatic differentiation

19

 

20

 

Numerical methods for optimization primer

 

Project 1 due

Project 2 out

21

 

 

5

24

 

25

 

Animation as nonlinear optimization

 

26

 

27

 

Spacetime Constraints

 

28

 

6

May 1

 

2

 

Motion capture and editing

3

 

4

 

Final project descriptions

5

 

 

7

8

 

9

 

Robot Controllers (Wooten)

 

Project 2 due

Final project out

10

 

11

 

Skin and muscles

 

 

12

 

8

15

 

 

16

 

Physically based motion transformation

17

 

18

 

Motion space interpolation (Cohen)

19

 

 

9

22

 

 

23

 

Implicit differential methods

Cloth

 

Final project checkpoint presentations

24

 

25

 

Fluid Dynamics (Stam)

26

 

 

10

29

 

30

 

Machine learning and animation (van de Panne)

31

 

June 1

 

In class final project presentations

2

 

Finals

week

5

6

 

Final project due

7

8

9