Reading

The text for the course is Computer Animation by Rick Parent. Some of the notes and early material can be found here.

Note: I generally will not provide the papers in class or as links on this page; instead it is up to you to find them. The web is now a wonderful resource for finding papers. Preprints of many papers can be found on the authors' websites---use a search engine like Google (or now Google Scholar) to find these. Papers that appear in places like SIGGRAPH, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) and Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) can be found in the ACM Digital Library (http://www.acm.org/dl) but you will need to be logged into a UBC machine or go though the proxy server. Other journals to which UBC subscribes can be found by their search page; often you will find that recent articles were published electronically and UBC has a subscription that lets you read them online (like the ACM Digital Library).

Please find the following articles and read them:

John Lasseter, "Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation", SIGGRAPH 1987
William T. Reeves, "Particle systems: a technique for modelling a class of fuzzy objects", SIGGRAPH 1983