Computer Animation

Topic outline

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  General

  COMPUTER ANIMATION
  
  

  Instructor: Tolga CAN Added: 23 November 2009

  • Course Information Page
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  Topic 1

  Introduction and overview of animation

  • Lecture Slides File
  • Reading: Chapter 1 from the textbook
  • bunny.avi File
  • GerisGame.avi File
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  Topic 2

  Technical Background and Representation of Orientations

  • Lecture Slides File
  • Axis Angle Interpolation Executable (Compiled under Cygwin, dlls provided) File
  • Axis Angle Interpolation Source Code File
  • Reading: Chapter 2 from the textbook
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  Topic 3

  Interpolation

  • Lecture Slides File
  • Reading: Chapter 3 from the textbook
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  Topic 4

  Animating articulated structures, kinematics and inverse kinematics

  • Lecture Slides File
  • Reading: Section 4.2 from the textbook
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  Topic 5

  Physically based modeling and simulation, rigid body dynamics

  • Lecture Slides File
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  Topic 6

  Bodies in Contact
  Controlling Groups of Objects

  • Lecture Slides File
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  Topic 7

  Natural Phenomena:
  Modeling Plants using L-systems
  Cloud Modeling

  • Lecture Slides File
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  Topic 8

  Modeling and Animating Articulated Figures:
  Modeling the Arm, Walking, Facial Animation
  

  • Lecture Slides File
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  Topic 9

  Animating Cloth, Motion Capture

  • Lecture Slides File
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  Topic 10

  Paper presentations
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  Topic 11

  Paper presentations
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  Topic 12

  Paper presentations
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  Topic 13

  Project presentations
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  Topic 14

  Project presentations