CS 493/693 - Simulations in Computer Graphics

Announcements

• Course letter grades are now posted on the grading section of NetRun. You all put in some serious effort on your homeworks and projects--thank you for a fun semester!
• The final exam was in our usual classroom, Chapman 104, at 1pm Tuesday, May 10th. Also, the Project 2 final draft was due at midnight Tuesday, May 10 on Blackboard.
• Project 2 Presentations were this Thursday, May 5th in class.
• I posted some brief comments on your project 2 intro and rough draft on the grading section of NetRun.
• Your Project 2 rough draft code is due at midnight Thursday, April 28 on Blackboard.
• Be ready to present your Project 2 topic in class on Tuesday, April 19. Topics should be some sort of simulation using a technique we've touched on in class: so grids, particles, triangles, tets, or any hybrid is OK!
• HW3 was posted, and due Thursday, April 7 at midnight.
• Your project 1 final polished code was due Thursday, March 24th on Blackboard.
• Project 1 rough draft and presentation comments are posted on NetRun.
• The midterm exam was this Thursday, May 10th in class. 493 and 693 students will have different exams: in particular, the 693 exam will cover the scientific papers linked from the lecture notes. See the course review below!
• Project 1 rough draft code was due Thursday, May 3rd on Blackboard.
• Project 1 presentations were in class Tuesday, May 8th: graduate students should write up HTML lecture notes and post them on Blackboard
• Homework 2 was to build and simulate any 3D model--triangles or quads, tets or cubes. I recommend Blender and TetGen, but it's up to you! Due Thursday, February 24th on Blackboard.
• Homework 1 grades are posted on NetRun.
• Homework 1 was to build and render any animating particle system--everything else is up to you! Was due Tuesday, Feb 1 at midnight on Blackboard (you'll need to log in first).
  

Lecture Notes

• 05_05_review, Course Review for Final Exam modified 2011-05-05
• 04_26_3D_meshes, 3D Mesh Simulations modified 2011-04-25
• 04_14_data_structures, Data Structures Used by Simulations modified 2011-04-14
• 04_12_reaction_diffusion, Reaction-Diffusion Equations modified 2011-05-09
• 04_05_navier_stokes, Partial Differential Equation Symbols, Multigrid, and Navier-Stokes modified 2011-04-04
• 03_24_waves, Wave Dynamics modified 2011-03-24
• 03_08_review, Course Review for Midterm Exam modified 2011-03-07
• 03_03_GPGPU, Running Simulations on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) modified 2011-03-03
• 02_24_chain_cloth, Simulating Chain, Rope, and then Cloth modified 2011-02-28
• 02_17_wheels_multiphysics, Wheel Physics, and Multiphysics Problems modified 2011-02-18
• 02_15_solid_simulation, Simulating Solids with Finite Elements modified 2011-02-16
• 02_10_models, Modeling Realistic 3D Objects modified 2011-02-24
• 02_01_boids, Particle-Particle Interaction: boids, crowds, etc modified 2011-01-28
• 01_27_pretty_particles, Making Particle Systems Pretty modified 2011-01-27
• 01_25_boundaries, Boundary Conditions for Particle Systems modified 2011-01-27
• 01_20_newton, Simulating Newtonian Particles modified 2013-01-17

Example Code

	newton1_robots--This is a simple robot simulator build using the Newton game dynamics engine.	Download: .zip w/exe (1.5M) .tar.gz (1.4M) (modified 2011-05-10)
	volume1_fire--Uses 3D textures for fire simulation over solid domain. A simple example of how to simulate, and how to render, a 3D texture.	Download: .zip w/exe (1.1M) .tar.gz (989K) (modified 2011-04-21)
	wave3_screenspace--Compute wave equation on a perspective-transformed screenspace grid, which allows us to simulate an unbounded domain. Note how the waves look correct as they expand to the horizon. Follow a wave with a camera, and it will correctly expand indefinitely, until it blurs away to nothing.	Download: .zip w/exe (1.3M) .tar.gz (1.1M) (modified 2011-04-13)
	wave4_physics--Various reaction-diffusion physics, including combustion, ice solidification, and predator-prey interaction.	Download: .zip w/exe (1.3M) .tar.gz (1.1M) (modified 2011-04-13)
	fluid2_heatsource--Adds rigid boundary conditions (with GL_CLAMP) and a movable heat source.	Download: .zip w/exe (1.2M) .tar.gz (1.1M) (modified 2011-04-05)
	fluid1_multigrid--Divergence-based multigrid GPU fluid dynamics simulation, with a simple mushroom cloud initial conditions.	Download: .zip w/exe (1.2M) .tar.gz (1.1M) (modified 2011-03-29)
	wave1_shallow--Generic GPU simulation "playground", with a shallow-water wave simulation.	Download: .zip w/exe (1.2M) .tar.gz (1.1M) (modified 2011-03-24)
	object8_gpucloth--Run cloth physics on the GPU, using GLSL and my ogl/gpgpu.h libraries. Should run on any recent NVIDIA or (now!) ATI machine.	Download: .zip w/exe (1022K) .tar.gz (956K) (modified 2011-03-03)
	object7_shadedcloth--Add GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP rendering and lighting to cloth simulation.	Download: .zip w/exe (922K) .tar.gz (854K) (modified 2011-03-03)
	object6_shearcloth--Adds diagonal elements to cloth simulation, which provides shear resistance.	Download: .zip w/exe (920K) .tar.gz (852K) (modified 2011-02-28)
	object5_cloth--A very simple cloth simulation, built from the chain simulation by adding bending resistance, and running threads along X and Y. The only thing missing is a term to keep the threads approximately 90 degrees apart.	Download: .zip w/exe (920K) .tar.gz (852K) (modified 2011-02-24)
	object4_chain--A simple chain implementation. Press 'f' to cycle through which sphere you control with the WASD keys.	Download: .zip w/exe (919K) .tar.gz (851K) (modified 2011-02-23)
	object3_bunnyracer--Wheels now fully operational. Control with the WASD keys. Try popping wheelies, and recovering from a skid. Hit 'r' to reset the bunny, and 'f' to swap camera modes between follow and free. Bunny is fully destructible--try out the 'crumple nose'!	Download: .zip w/exe (1007K) .tar.gz (941K) (modified 2011-02-18)
	object2_tets--Simulate a solid model using tetrahedra, generated using TetGen. Also has a green "pusher" sphere you can use to interact with the model.	Download: .zip w/exe (862K) .tar.gz (795K) (modified 2011-02-11)
	object1_triangles--Load a Blender-generated 3D triangle model from a .off file, and simulate spring-based physics using "leapfrog" integration.	Download: .zip w/exe (843K) .tar.gz (775K) (modified 2011-02-11)
	particles5_searchgrid--Same chasers as 4, but now the chasers repel one another using a search grid to find neighboring chaser particles.	Download: .zip w/exe (831K) .tar.gz (764K) (modified 2011-01-28)
	particles4_chasers--Particles that "chase" the central purple sphere. Also includes drop shadows.	Download: .zip w/exe (826K) .tar.gz (758K) (modified 2011-01-28)
	particles3_billboards--Billboard particles, drawn as quads with a rotating emissive "fire" texture.	Download: .zip w/exe (997K) .tar.gz (929K) (modified 2011-01-27)
	particles2_depthsort--Adds a depth sort to get transparent points, and a GLSL program to compute the points' proper onscreen size.	Download: .zip w/exe (827K) .tar.gz (759K) (modified 2011-01-27)
	particles1--Simple particle system, with Newtonian GL_POINTS particles bouncing between two spheres.	Download: .zip w/exe (780K) .tar.gz (712K) (modified 2011-01-27)

Resources

• The course syllabus has dates to remember, and the grading policy.
• NetRun now supports NVIDIA's CUDA GPU programming interface.  Try CUDA in NetRun now!
• No textbook required.  This page is all you need!