15-464 / 15-664 Syllabus for Spring 2013

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

Week of	Tues	Thurs
Jan 15	Course Overview Reading: Parent Ch1 Assignment 0 OUT	Creating and Representing Motion Slides Reading: Parent Ch3 Reading: Richard Williams, "Animator's Survival Kit"
Jan 22	DEMOS: Mocap and Maya Meet in the Motion Capture Lab (WeH 1334) Reading: Parent Ch 6	Motion Style and Motion Editing Project 1 OUT Slides Reference List
Jan 29	Motion Puppetry Reference List	Introduction to Maya (Moshe Mahler)
Feb 5	PAPERS SESSION I	Inverse Kinematics Project 1 DUE Project 2 OUT IK slides IK technical paper IK for games article Part 1 IK for games article Part 2, CCD Reading: Parent Ch5 Reading: Parent Appendix B.3.4 (Quaternions)
Feb 12	PROJECT 1 DEMOS	Motion Planning Reference List
Feb 19	More Motion Planning Reading: Parent Ch11	Physically Based Simulation Reading: Parent Ch7.1-7.4 Reading: Parent B.7 (Physics Primer) Reading: Parent B.8 (Numerical Integration Techniques) Reference List
Feb 26	Simulating Cloth Project 2 DUE Project 3 OUT Reading: Parent Ch7.5-7.7 Reference List Slides	PROJECT 2 DEMOS
Mar 5	Deformables Reading: Parent Ch4 Reference List Slides	PAPERS SESSION II
Mar 12	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
Mar 19	Final Project Brainstorming Final Project OUT	Fluids Reading: Parent Ch8 Reference List
Mar 26	PAPERS SESSION III and SPH for Fluids Reference List	FINAL PROJECT PITCHES
Apr 2	Physically Based Character Animation (Guest speaker: Katsu Yamane) Project 3 DUE Reading: Parent Ch 9 Slides	PROJECT 3 DEMOS
Apr 9	PAPERS SESSION IV	Hair Reference List
Apr 16	Precomputation of Cloth Near-exhaustive Precomputation of Secondary Cloth Effects	CARNIVAL
Apr 23	Crowds Reference List	TBA
Apr 30	FINAL PRESENTATIONS	FINAL PRESENTATIONS