Computer Graphics Laboratory

Physically-based Simulation - AS 17


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Lectures material

Session Material
20/09 Introduction [Slides1] [Slides2]
27/09 Mass-Spring Systems I
04/10 Mass-Spring Systems II [Slides] [Notes] [Exercise Source (Maple)]
11/10 Applied Partial Differential Equations [Slides1] [Slides2]
18/10 Rigid Body Simulation I [Slides]
25/10 Fluid Simulation I [Slides]
01/11 Finite Element Simulation of Deformable Solids [Exercise Source]
08/11 Rigid Body Simulation II [Slides]
15/11 Guest Lecture by Matthias Müller-Fischer (NVIDIA Research) [Slides1] [Slides2] [Source Material]
22/11 Fluids II [Slides]
29/11 Fast Simulation of Deformable Objects [Slides] [Exercise Source]
06/12 Fluids III [Slides]
13/12 Guest Lecture by Stelian Coros (Computational Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich)
20/12 Project Demonstrations

Exercises material

In the first part of the semester, there will be three graded exercises of different topics. All exercises should be submitted in groups of 2 or 3.

Exercise 1: Mass-Spring Systems (Assigned: September 27th, Due: October 11th)
[Exercise] - [Framework] - [Slides] - [Solution]
Exercise 2: PDEs (Assigned: October 11th, Due: October 25th)
[Exercise] - [Framework] - [Slides] - [Solution]
Exercise 3: Fluids (Assigned: October 25th, Due: November 8th)
[Exercise] - [Framework] - [Slides] - [Solution]

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Project Plan Presentation (Assigned: October 20th, Due: November 8th)
[Guideline]