BU CAS CS 680
Introduction Seminar in Computer Graphics

Spring 1996

Prerequisites:

Consent of the instructor

Lecture Schedule:

For preliminary lecture schedule, see the CS480 lectures and doing the programming projects, graduate students get together for one hour a week to discuss recent journal/conference papers from the field.

Graduate Section Schedule:
Jan 
   W 17 Introduction  
   W 24 Simulated pens, pencils, and brushes [1,2] 
   W 31 Morphing [3,4] 

Feb 
   W 7  Deformation methods [5,6] 
   W 14 Physics-based animation [7,8] 
   W 21 Animation controls [9,10] 
   W 28 Camera control [11,12] 		
       (Project proposals due.)

Mar 
   W 13 Virtual reality I [13,14] 
   W 20 Virtual reality II [15,16] 
   W 27 Fractals and trees [17,18] 

Apr 
   W 3  Modeling natural phenomena [19,20] 
   W 10 Texture modeling [21,22] 
   W 17 no class
   W 24 Illumination modeling [23,24]

May
   W 1  Final Programming Project demos
References

  1. S. C. Hsu and I. Lee. Drawing and animation using skeletal strokes. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 109--118, 1994.

  2. M. Salisbury, S. Anderson, R. Barzel, and D. Salesin. Interactive pen-and-ink illustration. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 101--108, 1994.

  3. S. Y. Lee, K. Y. Chwa, S. Y. Shin,and J. Wolberg. Image metamorphosis using snakes and free-form deformations. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 439--448, 1995.

  4. A. Lerios, C. Garfinkle and M. Levoy. Feature-based volume metamorphosis. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 449--456, 1995.

  5. A. Barr. Global and local deformations of solid primitives. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, volume 18, pages 21--30, 1984.

  6. T. W. Sederberg and S. R. Parry. Free-form deformation of solid geometric models. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, volume 20, pages 151--160, 1986.

  7. D. Terzopoulos, J. Platt, A. Barr, and K. Fleischer. Elastically deformable models. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, volume 21, pages 205--214, 1987.

  8. A. Witkin, K. Fleischer, and A. Barr. Energy constraints on parameterized models. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, volume 21, pages 225--232, 1987.

  9. X. Tu and D. Terzopoulos. Artificial fishes: physics, locomotion, perception, behavior. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 43--50, 1994.

  10. K. Sims. Evolving virtual creatures. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 15--22, 1994.

  11. M. Gleicher and A. Witkin. Through-the-lens camera control. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 331--340, 1992.

  12. S. M. Drucker and D. Zeltzer. CamDroid: A System for Intelligent Camera Control. In Proc. SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 1995.

  13. M. Bajura, H. Fuchs, and R. Ohbuchi. Merging virtual objects with the real world: seeing ultrasound imagery within the patient. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 203--210, 1992.

  14. K. Fairchild. Virtual Reality: Applications and Explorations, chapter Information Management using Virtual Reality-Based Visualizations, pages 45--74. Academic Press, Inc., 1993. A. Wexelblat, Editor.

  15. P. Maes, T. Darrell, B. Blumberg, and A. Pentland. The {ALIVE system: full-body interaction with autonomous agents. In Proc. of Computer Animation Conference, Switzerland, April 1995.

  16. R. Rao, J. Pedersen, M. Hearst, J. Mackinlay, S. Card, L. Masinter, P. Halvorsen, and G. Robertson. Rich interaction in the digital library. Communications of the ACM, 38(4):29--39, 1995.

  17. A. Fournier, D. Fussel, and L. Carpenter. Computer rendering of stochastic models. Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, 25(6):371--384, June 1982.

  18. P. Prusinkiewicz, A. Lindenmayer, and J. Hanan. Developmental models of herbaceous plants. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, volume 22, pages 141--150, 1988.

  19. W. Reeves. Particle systems --- a technique for modeling a class of fuzzy objects. ACM Trans. on Graphics, 2(2), 1983.

  20. K. Sims. Particle animation and rendering using data parallel computation. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, volume 24, pages 405--413, 1990.

  21. K. Perlin. An image synthesizer. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, volume 19, pages 287--296, 1985.

  22. G. Turk. Generating textures on arbitrary surfaces using reaction-diffusion. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 289--298, 1991.

  23. T. Whitted. An improved illumination model for shaded display. Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, 23(6):343--349, 1980.

  24. S. Westin, J . Arvo, and K. Torrance. Predicting Reflectance Functions from Complex Surfaces. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 255-264, 1992. 

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