CS426 (fall 2011)   Assignment 4   "Semi-Automatic Animation"

Due: Friday December 2 midnight

This is an open-ended programming assignment: by yourself or with a partner
(it could be the same as assignment 3, just let me know as before) create
a 3D animation using procedural, physics, or data-driven approaches.

The chief requirement is complexity: there has to be at least 1000 degrees of
freedom being animated in some way here. Part of the hand in is a description
of what you've done, and how it qualifies as 1000 or more degrees of freedom.

Some examples you might try:
 - a particle system for some phenomenon
 - a crowd of agents
 - a mass-spring model of a deformable object
 - record mouse movements as a real-time animation input, and then animate
   many models using small random variations on the input

You will need to render the output as before into a sequence of 640x360
images. You should use OpenGL, but don't necessarily need to have lighting
or shadows working as in assignment 3.

Use the handin program to submit: put your description (text file), your code
and your images in subdirectories of ~/cs426/a4, then run "handin cs426 a4"