Grading:

Individual project, 100 pts. including 20 points for timely turning in scheduled parts of the project and 10 points for presenting it.
Some labs, 5 pts each.
Final exam, 30 pts.

Prerequisites
C481 Interactive Computer Graphics, B581 Advanced Computer Graphics, or equivalent.

1. Modeling, simulation, and scientific visualization

• Gravitational movements
• Fluids simulation
• Scientific visualization, isosurfaces, volume rendering
• Blobs, surfaces, arbitrary shaped objects, and deformations
• Plants, hair, feathers

2. Special topics

• Image reconstruction
• Games programming and elements of AI
• Graphics software

3. Advanced rendering techniques

4. Animation

• Character animation
• Facial animation
• Motion capture

Lab1

• The motorcycle driving project.
• Blender
• Netlib - a resource for numerical algorithms.
• Plapack - a parallel linear algebra library.
• A Navier-Stokes solver.
• AUTO - a free library for solving systems of PDEs by parameter continuation.
• Diffpack - a commercial package for solving PDEs, free demo available.
• A site on facial expressions.
• Facial animation from the Computer Graphics Group, MPI Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany.
• A site on procedural animation
• A site on character animation, contains the animations of the little green bug.
• Kismet from the MIT.
• GameSpy on user-generated content
• A 3D game engine
• A 2D Python game engine
• GameDev - game ressource site
• A page on game programming.

Documentation

Textbook (same as before): E. Angel (2002): Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach Using OpenGL, 3rd edition, Addison Wesley.

D. M. Bourg (2002): Physics for Game Developers, O'Reilly.

J. D. Funge (1999): AI for Games and Animation, A K Peters.

P. Rick (2002): Computer animation : algorithms and techniques, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

A. Watt, F. Policarpo (2001): 3D games : real-time rendering and software technology , ACM Press.

D. Shreiner (2000): OpenGL reference manual : the official reference document to OpenGL, version 1.2, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley.