| Session | Topic |
| September 16 |
Introduction [Slides]
Mass-Spring Systems: Part 1 [Slides] Additional Material: [A nice overview of Deformable Models in Computer Graphics, by Nealen et al. (2006)] |
| September 23 |
Mass-Spring Systems: Part 2 [Slides (Part 1)] - [Slides (Part 2)] Additional Material: [Simple oscillator (Maple script)] |
| September 30 |
Mass-Spring Systems: Part 3 [Slides (Part 1)] - [Slides (Part 2)] Additional Material: [Hauth's EG '01 paper] [Baraff & Witkin: Large Steps in Cloth Simulation] [Baraff's Siggraph '01 course notes: Constrained Dynamics] [Baraff's Siggraph '01 course notes: Differential Equation Basics] gmsh - a tetmesher (volume mesher). Ask the staff for example files if need Triangle by Shewchuck - most popular 2D delaunay triangulator |
| October 7 |
Mass-Spring Systems: Part 3 (continued) [Slides]
Applied Partial Differential Equations [Slides (Part 1)] - [Slides (Part 2)] Additional material: 2D & 3D meshers: Graphite - a good 3D surfaces mesher Stellar - another tetmesher CGAL - professional 2D & 3D mesher (and many other geometrical algorithms), but hard to set up |
| October 14 |
Rigid Body Simulation [Slides] Additional Material: [Baraff's Siggraph '01 course notes: Rigid Body Simulation] [Baraff's Siggraph course notes: 2nd tutorial (Nonpenetration Constraints)] Chris Hecker: Rigid Body Dynamics David Eberly: Game Physics |
| October 21 |
Fluid Simulation: Part 1 [Slides] Additional Material: [Bridson's Siggraph '07 course notes: Fluid Simulation] |
| October 28 | Continuum Mechanics and FEM for 3D Deformable Solids [Slides] |
| November 4 |
Fluid Simulation: Part 2 [Slides] Additional Material: [Particle-Based Fluid Simulation for Interactive Applications, by Müller et al. (2003)] [State of The Art Report: SPH Fluids in Computer Graphics, by Ihmsen et al. (2014)] |
| November 18 | Collision Detection [Slides] |
| November 25 |
Elastically Deformable Thin Shells and Rods [Slides] Additional Material: [Terzopoulos87] [Grinspun03] [Bridson03] [Bertails06] [Wardetzky07] [Bergou08] [Spillmann08] |
| December 2 |
Fluid Simulation: Part 3 [Slides] |