CS777 Computer Animation Spring 2011 — Archive of 2011 Computer Animation Course Web

Readings 1: Rotations and Transformations

by Mike Gleicher January 20, 2011 Assignments

This is a little unnusual, since I’m not going to assign a reading – I can’t really pick. We just dove in and started talking about rotations. Or to be more precise, I just dove in and started rambling about rotations and special orthogonal groups and … And maybe you learned something, or maybe your […]

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Assignment 2 – Make an Animation!

by Mike Gleicher January 19, 2011 Assignments

I would like you to: Learn a little bit about some animation system. (Maya, 3D Studio Max, Maya) Try to use it to make a picture (to make sure that you get a sense of how to make it work) Try to use it to animate something (make some “creature” that moves in a way […]

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Readings 2 – Some Seminal Papers

by Mike Gleicher January 19, 2011 Assignments

I always like to start out with a few seminal papers. Stuff that’s so old that its hard to imagine, but still worth having seen. Looking at these papers are mainly a history lesson. This list is the same as it was long ago, and it was re-iterated by the appearance of a “seminal papers […]

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Andy Witkin Memoriam

by Mike Gleicher January 18, 2011 News

If you wonder how I got started in all of this stuff, or just want to appreciate some computer animation history, I recommend that you read this retrospective article about Andy Witkin, my friend and grad school advisor.

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A Plan for the Semester

by Mike Gleicher January 18, 2011 Basic Info

If it seems like I am making this up as I go along, that’s half true. I don’t have a strict agenda as to what I want to cover, or what the exact order should be – I am willing to adapt based on people’s interests. I do have some pedagogical goals. When I try […]

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Signing up for the website

by Mike Gleicher January 18, 2011 News

Ok, some of you have found the website and signed up somehow, and have posted. As it turns out, I still have to manually enter you (so that you are registered as a user of the specific animation11 site), and make sure that you have permissions to create posts. So don’t be suprised if you […]

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Assignment 1

by Mike Gleicher January 17, 2011 News

Assignment 1 is due by Sunday, January 23rd (so I have time to look at the responses before class on Monday). Note: this assignment asks each person to make 4-5 postings to this website. You might want to try doing one early, so we can work the kinks out of the mechanics. Also, you might […]

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Bidirectional Search for Interactive Motion Synthesis

by gleicheruw January 17, 2011 Assignment 1

Assigned Paper (note: the version on the author’s web page is a damaged PDF). A working version is here. 1. Sentence: In this paper we present a novel approach to apply bidirectional search for motion synthesis using motion graphs. (1st sentence, 2nd paragraph). 2. Problem: Searching a motion graph to synthesize a motion is too slow. Use […]

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Assignment 0: Figure out the website

by Mike Gleicher January 17, 2011 Assignments

Part of the way we’ll run the class semester is using this WordPress-based website. Everyone needs to be registered, and over the course of the semester you’ll need to both make postings, as well as comment on other people’s postings. To make sure that things really work, log into the course website and add a […]

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