Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich

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Physically-based Simulation - AS14 - Course Notes

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  1. Introduction
    - [Pdf-Slides]

  2. Mass-Spring Systems: Part 1
    - [Pdf-Slides]
    Additional Material
    - [A nice overview of Deformable Models in Computer Graphics, by Nealen Et al (2006)]

  3. Mass-Spring Systems: Part 2
    - [Pdf-Slides (part 2.1)]
    - [Pdf-Slides (part 2.2)]

  4. Mass-Spring Systems: Part 3
    - [Pdf-Slides (part 3.1)]
    - [Pdf-Slides (part 3.2)]
    Additional Material
    - [Hauth's EG '01 paper]
    - [Baraff & Witkin: Large Steps in Cloth Simulation]
    - [Baraff's Siggraph '01 course notes: Constrained Dynamics]
    - [Baraff's Siggraph '01 course notes: Differential Equation Basics]
    - [A maple worksheet of a simple oscillator, that was presented at class]
    - gmsh - a tetmesher (volume mesher). Ask the staff for example files if need
    - Triangle by Shewchuck - most popular 2D delaunay triangulator

  5. Applied Partial Differential Equations
    - [Pdf-Slides Part 1]
    - [Pdf-Slides Part 2]
    2D & 3D meshers:
    - Graphite - a good 3D surfaces mesher
    - Stellar - another tetmesher
    - CGAL- professional 2D & 3D mesher (and many other geometrical algorithms), but hard to setup

  6. Rigid Body Simulation
    - [Pdf-Slides]
    Additional Material
    - [Baraff's Siggraph '01 course notes: Rigid Body Simulation]
    - [Baraff's Siggraph course notes: 2nd tutorial (Nonpenetration Constraints)]
    - [Chris Hecker: Rigid Body Dynamics]
    - [David Eberly: Game Physics]

  7. Fluid Simulation: Part 1
    - [Pdf-Slides]
    Additional Material
    - [Bridson's Siggraph '07 course notes: Fluid Simulation]

  8. Fluid Simulation: Part 2
    - [Pdf-Slides]

  9. Continuum Mechanics and FEM for 3D Deformable Solids
    - [Pdf-Slides]

  10. Collision Detection
    - [Pdf-Slides]

  11. Elastically Deformable Thin Shells and Rods
    - [Pdf-Slides]
    Additional Material
    - [Terzopoulos87]
    - [Grinspun03]
    - [Bridson03]
    - [Bertails06]
    - [Wardetzky07]
    - [Bergou08]
    - [Spillmann08]

  12. Fluid Simulation: Part 3
    - [Pdf-Slides]
    Additional Material
    - [Video SWE reflecting boundaries]
    - [Video SWE absorbing boundaries]