Computer Animation & Visualisation Module

Lecturer

Lecture Times

• Tuesday: 16:10-17:00 Chrystal MacMilan Building, Seminar Room 1
• Friday: 16:10-17:00 G.159, Old College

Syllabus

• character animation techniques : keyframe animation, inverse kinematics, facial animation, pd-control, flocking, crowd simulation
• motion capture technologies: optical, magnetic, mechanical, gyrosensors
• optimization-based techniques: space-time constraints, Laplacian distance shape deformation
• physically based animation techniques : fluid animation, hair animation, cloth simulation, deformable objects, crack simulation
• non-photo realistic rendering
• Pattern recognition, 3D shape recognition
• Visualisation: definition and motivation
• Data representation: geometric abstractions; volume and surface representations, interpolation.
• Fundamental algorithms: colour mapping; contouring; glyphs; volume rendering
• Advanced algorithms: flow visualisation, vector visualisation, tensor visualisation.
• Information visualisation: networks and trees; document visualisation.

Activities

1. 18 lectures on the above syllabus (including lab sessions).
2. 2 assessed practical exercises.

Lecture Notes

Assessment

All practical work is covered by the school policy on plagiarism and students are advised to be fully aware of this when submitting practical work.

Coursework #1 Assignment 1

Submit: Deadline 4:00PM, 2nd March, 2020. It must be submitted electronically.

Place your files in a single directory, zip the directory and send it to email to Taku Komura (tkomura@ed.ac.uk) and Sebastian Starke (sebastian.starke@ed.ac.uk). As the zip file can be too large, please delete the motion capture data inside the directory.

Return: Feedback will be returned on 15th March. The written feedback form can be collected from the ITO. l. Written feedback can be received at the ITO.

Coursework #2 Assignment 2 template code

Submit: Deadline 4:00PM, 3rd April, 2020. It must be submitted electronically.

Place your files in a single directory, and call the informatics electronic submission script for this course as follows (man submit for further details):

submit cav 2 your_directory_name

Reading List

• Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics), Richard Parent
• "Real-time Rendering", Akenine-Moller, Haines, AK Peters
• SIGGRAPH computer animation course http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/anim0.htm
• Rick Parent's computer animation webpage
• Shroeder, Martin & Lorenson, 'The Visualization Toolkit', 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1998. (or 3rd Edition)
• Kitware Inc. Edited by W.J. Shroeder, 'The Visualisation Toolkit User's Guide', Prentice Hall,
• Spence 'Information Visualization', Addison-Wesley, 2001. Good for the topic of information visualisation.