Lecture Notes
Will be followed in the following order.
- Introduction and Technical Background
- Interpolating Values I
- Interpolating Values II
- Interpolating Values III
- Interpolation based Animation I
- Interpolation based Animation II
- Kinematic Linkages I
- Kinematic Linkages II
- Kinematic Linkages III
- Physically based Animation I
- Physically based Animation II
- Physically based Animation III
- Physically based Animation IV
- Special Models for Animation I
- Special Models for Animation II
- Special Models for Animation III
- Ken Shoemake's tutorial on 'Animating Rotation with Quaternion Calculus
- David Eberly's paper on 'Quaternion Algebra and Calculus
- Understanding 'slerp'
- Notes for Curve Interpolation
- Cubic Bezier Curves and De Casteljau algorithm (recurrence formula) (pp 53-59)
- Interpolation using Composite Bezier Curves (Pages 69-73 of "Uniform Cubic B-Spline Curve Interpolation")
- Uniform Cubic B-Spline Curve Interpolation (pp 60-129) (You only need pages 116-129 if you know the definitions of the uniform and non-uniform basis functions)
- Information on Clifford Algebra (covers quaternion as a special case)
Related course websites:
This is the home page of CS633: Computer Animation.
Fuhua (Frank) Cheng, Instructor, cheng@cs.uky.edu
This course presents algorithms and programming techniques for specifying and generating motion for graphical objects. It addresses practical issues and provides accessible techniques and straightforward implementations. It is not intended for animators using off-the-shelf animation software, nor does it address the issue of computer-assisted animation, i.e., the computerization of conventional hand-drawn techniques. This course is primarily concerned with 3D computer animation. Motion specification techniques in two categories: interpolation and basic techniques and kinematic control of articulated figures, are studied and discussed. The interpolation and basic techniques category consists of ways in which the computer is used to fill in the details of the motion once the animator specifies the required information, such as key framing and path following. kinematic control of articulated figures generate motion using a set of rules or constraints that specify what is to be done instead of how is to be done. Model-specific applications are also surveyed. These are grouped into two general areas: real-world processes simulation and figure modeling (human figure modeling and facial modeling). The graphics library used in this course is OpenGL.
The course syllabus is available in pdf format.
openGL
- Android's web site for OpenGL
- Android's web site for related OpenGL instructions categories
- SGI's web site for OpenGL
- SGI's web site for OpenGL Examples
- OpenGL Reference Manual
- Free OpenGL download site
- OpenGL Tutorial site I (beginners tutorials)
- OpenGL Tutorial site II (Intermediate Tutorials)
- OpenGL Tutorial site III (Miscellaneous)
- OpenGL Tutorial site IV
- References on OpenGL
- How to install openGL
- Computer Graphics through OpenGL's website
Sample Programs
- GettingStarted I
- GettingStarted II
- GettingStarted III
- Spinning Square
- Zoom in/out of Shaded Scene
- 3DView_Transf
- TextureMapping
- Shadow Generation
Homework Assignments
- Homework 1 (due date: 2/11/2014)
- Homework 2 (due date: 9/23/2014)
- Homework 3 (due date: 10/7/2014)
- Homework 4 (due date: 10/16/2014)
- Homework 5 (11/4/2014)
- Homework 6 (11/20/2014)
Programming Assignments