Simulation and Animation

Dr. Torsten Ullrich

Lecture

Lecture Notes 04.03.2013
Lecture Notes 05.03.2013
Further Reading:
1. Kenwright, Ben
  A Beginners Guide to Dual-Quaternions
  International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG), 20:1-10, 2012.
2. Xu, Jia and Huang, Zhiyong
  A Novel High Order Parametric Interpolation in 2D
  Proceedings of the annual conference of the European association for computer graphics (Eurographics '06, Short Paper), 27:99-102, 2006.
3. Taubin, Gabriel
  3D Rotations
  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 31:84-89, 2011.
Lecture Notes 11.03.2013
Lecture Notes 12.03.2013
Further Reading:
1. Mulcahy, Colm
  The Basic Curves and Surfaces of Computer-Aided Geometric Design
  Special Engineering Issue of Maple Tech, 3:65-73, 1996.
2. Zhou, Fengyu and Song, Baoye and Tian, Guohui
  Bezier Curve Based Smooth Path Planning for Mobile Robot
  Journal of Information & Computational Science, 8:2441-2450, 2011.
Lecture Notes 18.03.2013
Further Reading:
1. Teschner, M., Heidelberger, B., Müller, M., Pomerantes, D., and Gross, M.H.
  Optimized Spatial Hashing for Collision Detection of Deformable Objects
  Proceedings of VMV, 47-54, 2003.
2. Moore, A. W.
  An introductory tutorial on kd-trees
  Technical Report, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 209:1-20, 1991.
Lecture Notes 15.04.2013
Lecture Notes 16.04.2013
Further Reading:
1. Ullrich, T., Fünfzig, C. and Fellner, D.W.
  Two Different Views On Collision Detection
  IEEE Potentials, 26:26-30, 2007.
2. Stollnitz, E. J., DeRose, T. D. and Salesin, D. H.
  Wavelets for Computer Graphics: A Primer, Part 1
  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 15:76-84, 1995.
Lecture Notes 22.04.2013
Lecture Notes 23.04.2013
Further Reading:
1. Press, W. H., Flannery, B. P., Teukolsky, S. A. and Vetterling, W. T.
  Numerical Recipes in C - The art of scientific computing
  (Chapter "Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations")
  Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Lecture Notes 29./30.04.2013
Additional material (Maple Code and Log):
- Galerkin 1: pdf, mw
- Galerkin 2: pdf, mw
- Galerkin 3: pdf, mw
- Galerkin 4: pdf, mw
- Galerkin 5: pdf, mw
Lecture 06./07.05.2013 (no notes or slides)
Further Reading:
1. Cline, D., Cardon, D. and Egbert, P. K.
  Fluid Flow for the Rest of Us: Tutorial of the Marker and Cell Method in Computer Graphics
  Technical Report Brigham Young University, 2005.
Lecture Notes 13.05.2013

Tasks

Camera Path Planning (deadline 30.04.2013)

This task comprehends the design and implementation of a camera path.

Task Description
Task Framework
Example data sets (zipped OBJ/MTL-files):
1. OSM_Graz.zip (uncompressed 10.1MB)
2. GothikCathedral.zip (uncompressed 9.4MB)
3. Inffeldgasse16c.zip (uncompressed 4.8MB)

Physical Simulation & Collision Detection (deadline 28.06.2013)

This task comprehends the design and implementation of a simulation-based modeling system.

Task Description
Example data sets (zipped OBJ/MTL-files):
1. Part1.zip (uncompressed 17kB)
2. Part2.zip (uncompressed 33kB)

Questions and Answers