CS 482/681: Simulations in Computer Graphics
Project 2 and overall course grades and comments are on NetRun. This has been a fun semester, thank you!
Final exam answer key (for the curious).
| Date | Lecture Notes | Demo | Due Dates |
| 2015-05-07 | Project work session during final exam slot, 10:15-11:30 |
The project 2 final draft is due on Blackboard (log in first) by midnight on May 7. Students taking the graduate version of the course should include a short writeup, formatted like a scientific paper. |
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| 2015-05-04 | Project 2 Presentations end | ||
| 2015-05-01 | Project 2 Presentations cont'd |
The take-home final exam is due on Blackboard (log in first) by midnight on May 7. |
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| 2015-04-29 | Project 2 Presentations begin | ||
| 2015-04-27 | Project advice/work session. Dr. Lawlor will try to call in via Google Hangouts |
Project 2 rough draft grades and comments are on NetRun Midterm exam grades and comments are finally posted! (and an answer key) |
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| 2015-04-24 | No class due to SpringFest | Project 2 presentations next week, April 29-May 1. | |
| 2015-04-22 | Spectral Simulation (FFT) | Video FFT filtering (now working!) | |
| 2015-04-20 | Data Structures for Scientific Simulations | ||
| 2015-04-17 | Coupled multiphysics simulations | Terrain erosion via particles | |
| 2015-04-15 | Terrain erosion mechanisms | Terrain erosion in 2D and 3D | |
| 2015-04-13 | Volcano simulation, and solving PDEs in screen space | Screen space simulation (C++) .zip w/exe(1.3M) .tar.gz (1.1M) | |
| 2015-04-10 | Plant growth and differentiation | Tip-driven growth | Project 2 rough drafts will be due Monday, April 20 |
| 2015-04-08 | Reaction-diffusion equations | ||
| 2015-04-06 | Reactive simulations | Ice solidification | Project 2 topics will be due in class today--be ready to speak for 5 minutes on your project topic. Project 1 Grades and comments are on NetRun |
| 2015-04-03 | Multi-phase reactive flow | Simulating burning fluids | |
| 2015-04-01 | Robot simulation: two-wheeled vehicles and sensor simulations | Simulated mobile robot with sensors | |
| 2015-03-30 | Multigrid for pressure-free Navier-Stokes | Multigrid Navier-Stokes fluid simulation | Project 2 topics will be due in class on Monday, April 6 |
| 2015-03-27 | Navier-Stokes fluids and PDE notation | Navier-Stokes simulation, single pixel pressure | |
| 2015-03-25 | Fluid transport: advection | Fluid advection via V dot grad V method and coordinate shift "stable fluids" method | |
| 2015-03-23 | Boundary conditions in wave dynamics and raytraced water ripples | Project 1 final drafts are due Friday, March 27 on Blackboard (log in first) | |
| 2015-03-09 | 1D Cellular Automata | ||
| 2015-03-06 | 2D Wave Dynamics |
Gas dynamics with waves or particles (atoms) |
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| 2015-03-04 | GPU particle forces via a field texture |
Project 1 rough draft brief comments are on NetRun Reminder: project presentations are next week. |
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| 2015-03-02 | Computing Newtonian particle mechanics in a GPU shader | ||
| 2015-02-27 | GLSL Shaders for GPGPU Particles | Take-home midterm exam is due back Friday, March 6 on Blackboard (log in first). | |
| 2015-02-25 | Programmable shaders with GLSL | GLSL shader in THREE.js | |
| 2015-02-23 | NO CLASS due to bad weather | ||
| 2015-02-20 | Boundary Integration and the Rotational Inertia Matrix | ||
| 2015-02-18 | Torque to Rotation Rate | Rotation Rate Quaternion or Matrix | Project 1 rough drafts due on Blackboard Friday, Feb 27. |
| 2015-02-16 | Representing rotation | Rotation via: Euler angles, quaternion, or rotation matrix | |
| 2015-02-13 | Finite Element Modeling of solid materials | ||
| 2015-02-11 | Collision detection in 3D and 4D | Mesh-mesh collisions | |
| 2015-02-09 | Collision response | Mesh collision with fixed sphere | |
| 2015-02-06 | Lighting and shading dynamic mesh models | Shaded spring model | Project 1 topics due in-class Friday, Feb 13 |
| 2015-02-04 | Meshing solids with tetrahedra | 3D spring model | |
| 2015-02-02 | Model formats in simulations | Modeling in Blender | HW2: Blender to Tet Springs, due Wednesday, Feb 11 |
| 2015-01-30 | Simulation order and stability. | Spring system simulation | |
| 2015-01-28 | N-Body Gravity: Naive through Barnes-Hut | N-body gravity simulation | |
| 2015-01-26 | Boids and flocking behavior | Flocking simulation | |
| 2015-01-23 | THREE.js Geometry: Particle Systems | Volcano particle system | HW1: Particle Mechanics, due Wednesday, Jan 28 |
| 2015-01-21 | 3D vectors, vec3, and THREE.Vector3 | Vec3 operator playground | |
| 2015-01-15 | Integrating Differential Equations | Simple Object framework |
HW0: Newtonian Mechanics, due Wednesday, Jan 21 |
Index of 2015 Spring
Orion Lawlor
- Associate Professor, Computer Science
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2004 Ph.D.
- Computer graphics; parallel programming; robotics; 3D printing.
- Duckering 529
- 907-474-7678
- Office Hours:
- By Appointment
- lawlor@alaska.edu