cse558 | Physics Based Computer Animation |
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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
|
Finalsweek |
5 |
6
Final project due |
7 |
8 |
9 |