15-464 Syllabus for Spring 2011

This is a tentative syllabus. There will be more reading material posted as the course proceeds.

Week of	Mon	Weds
Jan 10	Course Overview Reading: Parent Ch1 Assignment 0 OUT	Creating and Representing Motion: Mocap, Maya, ODE Reading: Parent Ch5 187-200 Lecture 2 slides
Jan 17	Motion Style and Motion Editing Reading: ASF/AMC handout Reading: Wang et al., The Cartoon Animation Filter, SIGGRAPH 2006 Reading: Parent Ch6, Ch9 325-353 Splines help Reading: Parent Appendix B5 Reading: Splines handout Lecture 3 slides	Blending Poses and Shapes Reading: Igarashi, Moscovich, and Hughes, Spatial Keyframing for Performance-driven Animation Reading: Igarashi, Moscovich, and Hughes, "As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation Reading: Parent Ch 4.3-4.5
Jan 24	DEMOS: Motion Capture Lab and Maya (WeH 1334) Project 1 OUT	Inverse Kinematics Reading: Parent Ch5 200-215 Reading: IK Survey Reading: Another take on IK Reading: CCD
Jan 31	Mesh IK Reading: S. Kircher and M. Garland. Free-Form Motion processing Reading: R. W. Sumner, J. Schmid, and M. Pauly. Embedded Deformation for Shape Manipulation	Mixed IK: Deformation with Joints Reading: W. Xu et al. Joint-aware manipulation of deformable models
Feb 7	Planning Project 1 DUE Project 2 OUT Reading: Narain et al., Aggregate Dynamics for Dense Crowd Simulation, SIGGRAPH Asia 2009	PROJECT 1 DEMOS Reading: Shao and Terzopoulos, Autonomous Pedestrians, Graphical Models 2007.
Feb 14	PAPERS SESSION I	PAPERS SESSION II
Feb 21	Guest Lecture: Ken Toh (Cloth Simulation and Manipulation) Reading: Parent Ch7, Ch9 353-363	Physically-Based Simulation and more Cloth Reading: Baraff and Witkin SIGGRAPH 2007 course notes Reading: Baraff and Witkin Large Steps in Cloth Simulation, SIGGRAPH 1998 (implicit integration) Reading: Bridson et al. Robust Treatment of Collisions, Contact, and Friction for Cloth Animation, SIGGRAPH 2002
Feb 28	PAPERS SESSIONS III and IV Project 2 DUE	PROJECT 2 DEMOS Project 3 OUT
Mar 7	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
Mar 14	Final Project Brainstorming Final Project OUT	Fluids I Reading: Parent Ch8 Reading: Foster and Metaxas, Realistic Animation of Liquids, GMIP, 1996. Reading: Stam, Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games, GDC, 2003.
Mar 21	FINAL PROJECT PITCHES	FINAL PROJECT PITCHES
Mar 28	Fluids II Project 3 DUE	PROJECT 3 DEMOS
Apr 4	Deformable Body Simulation	PAPER SESSION V
Apr 11	Physically Based Character Animation I	Physically Based Character Animation II
Apr 18	Guest Lecture 1	Guest Lecture 2
Apr 25	FINAL PRESENTATIONS	FINAL PRESENTATIONS