Course Schedule (subject to change)

Introduction

More Introduction

Topic: Rigid Bodies

Topic: Deformable bodies and finite element/volume methods

Topic: Cloth and shells

Topic: (Re-)Meshing

Reading Week! No class Feb 15 or 17.

Topic: Collisions and constraints for deformables

Topic: Hair and rods

Topic: Fluids I: Smoke, fire, and explosions

Topic: Fluids II: Liquids

Topic: Wildcard

Final week

April 15: Final Project Due (Writeup, demo video, code)

Papers list

Rigid bodies

• "Impulse-based simulation of rigid bodies", Mirtich and Canny, I3D, 1995.
• "Non-convex rigid bodies with stacking", Guendelman, Bridson, and Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2003.
• "Staggered projections for frictional contact in multibody systems", Kaufman, Sueda, James, and Pai, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008.
• "Dynamic simulation of articulated rigid bodies with contact and collision", Weinstein, Teran, and Fedkiw, IEEE TVCG 2006.
• "Backwards steps in rigid body simulation", Twigg and James, SIGGRAPH 2008.
• "Reflections on simultaneous impact", Smith et al., SIGGRAPH 2012.

Deformable bodies and finite element/volume methods

• "Finite volume methods for the simulation of skeletal muscle", Teran, Blemker, Ng Thow Hing, and Fedkiw, SCA 2003.
• "Invertible finite elements for robust simulation of large deformation", Irving, Teran, and Fedkiw, SCA 2004.
• "Interactive virtual materials", Muller and Gross, GI2004.
• "A finite element method for large viscoplastic flow", Bargteil, Wojtan, Hodgins, and Turk, SIGGRAPH 2007.
• "Fast viscoelastic behavior with thin features", Wojtan and Turk, SIGGRAPH 2008.
• "Preserving topology and elasticity for embedded deformable models", Nesme et al, SIGGRAPH 2009.

Cloth and shells

• "Large steps in cloth simulation", Baraff and Witkin, SIGGRAPH 1998.
• "Discrete shells", Grinspun, Hirani, Desbrun, and Schroder, SCA 2003.
• "Simulation of cloth with folds and wrinkles", Bridson, Marino, and Fedkiw, SCA 2003.
• "A consistent bending model for cloth simulation with corotational subdivision finite elements", Thomaszewski, Wacker, and Strasser, SCA 2006.
• "A quadratic bending model for inextensible surfaces", Bergou et al., SGP 2006.
• "Cubic shells", Garg et al., SCA 2007.

(Re-)Meshing:

• "Variational tetrahedral meshing", Alliez et al., SIGGRAPH 2005.
• "Isosurface stuffing: Fast tetrahedral meshes with good dihedral angles", Labelle and Shewchuk, SIGGRAPH 2007.
• "Interleaving Delaunay refinement and optimization for practical isotropic tetrahedron mesh generation", Tournois et al. SIGGRAPH 2009.
• "Deforming meshes that split and merge", Wojtan et al, SIGGRAPH 2009.
• "Dynamic local remeshing for elastoplastic simulation", Wicke et al., SIGGRAPH 2010.
• "Adaptive anisotropic remeshing for cloth simulation", Narain, Samii, and O'Brien, SIGGRAPH 2012.

Collisions and constraints for cloth and deformables

• "Robust treatment of collisions, contact, and friction for cloth animation", Bridson, Fedkiw and Anderson, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• "Robust treatment of simultaneous collisions", Harmon, Vouga, Tamstorf, and Grinspun, SIGGRAPH 2008.
• "Efficient simulation of inextensible cloth", Goldenthal, Harmon, Fattal, Bercovier, and Grinspun, SIGGRAPH 2007.
• "Animating developable surface using non-conforming elements", English and Bridson, SIGGRAPH 2008.
• "Volume-conserving finite element simulations of deformable models", Irving, Schroeder, and Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2007.
• "Multiresolution isotropic strain limiting", Wang et al., SIGGRAPH Asia 2010.

Hair and rods

• "Super-helices for predicting the dynamics of natural hair", Bertails et al., SIGGRAPH 2006.
• "CORDE: Cosserat Rod Elements for the dynamic simulation of one-dimensional elastic objects", Spillman and Teschner, SCA 2007.
• "A mass-spring model for hair", Selle, Lentine, and Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2008.
• "Discrete elastic rods", Bergou, Wardetzky, Robinson, Audoly, and Grinspun, SIGGRAPH 2008.
• "Simulating knitted cloth at the yarn level", Kaldor, James, and Marschner, SIGGRAPH 2008.
• "Discrete viscous threads", Bergou et al., SIGGRAPH 2010.

Fluids I: Smoke, fire, and explosions

• "Visual simulation of smoke", Fedkiw, Stam, and Wann Jensen, SIGGRAPH 2001.
• "Physically based modeling and animation of fire", Nguyen, Fedkiw, and Wann Jensen, SIGGRAPH 2002
• "Animating suspended particle explosions", Feldman, O'Brien, and Arikan, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• "A vortex particle method for smoke water and explosions", Selle et al. SIGGRAPH 2005.
• "Wrinkled flames and cellular patterns", Hong, Shinar, and Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2007.

Fluids II: Liquids

• "Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces", Enright, Marchner, and Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• "Melting and flowing", Carlson, Mucha, Van Horn, and Turk, SCA 2002.
• "A method for animating viscoelastic fluids", Goktekin, Bargteil, and O'Brien, SIGGRAPH 2004.
• "Animating sand as a fluid", Zhu and Bridson, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• "Discontinuous fluids", Hong and Kim, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• "Multiple Interacting Liquids", Losasso et al., SIGGRAPH 2006.

Extra topics: Fluid-solid interaction

• "Rigid fluid: Animating the interplay between rigid bodies and fluids", Carlson, Mucha, and Turk, SIGGRAPH 2004.
• "Animating gases with hybrid meshes", Feldman, Klingner, and O'Brien, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• "Coupling water and smoke to thin deformable and rigid shells", Guendelman, Selle, Losasso, Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• "Fluid animation with dynamic meshes", Klingner et al, SIGGRAPH 2006.
• "Simultaneous coupling of fluids and deformable bodies", Chentanez et al. SCA 2006.
• "Two-way coupling of fluids to rigid and deformable solids", Robinson-Mosher et al., SIGGRAPH 2008.

Extra topics: Point-based solids and liquids

• "Particle-based fluid simulation for interactive applications", Muller, Charypar, and Gross, SCA 2003.
• "Point-based animation of elastic, plastic, and melting objects", Muller et al, SCA 2004.
• "Particle-based viscoelastic fluid simulation", Clavet, Beaudoin, and Poulin, SCA 2005.
• "Weakly compressible SPH for free surface flows", Becker and Teschner, SCA 2007.
• "A point-based method for animating elastoplastic solids", Gerszewski et al., SCA 2009.
• "Unified simulation of elastic rods, shells, and solids", Martin et al. SIGGRAPH 2010.

Extra topics: Fracture and cutting

• "Graphical modeling and animation of brittle fracture", O'Brien and Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 1999.
• "Graphical modeling and animation of ductile fracture", O'Brien, Bargteil, and Hodgins, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• "A virtual node algorithm for changing mesh topology", Molino et al., SIGGRAPH 2004.
• "Fracturing rigid materials", Bao, Hong, Teran, and Fedkiw, IEEE TVCG 2007.
• "Arbitrary cutting of deformable tetrahedralized objects", Sifakis et al., SCA 2007.
• "Enrichment textures for detailed cutting of shells", Kaufmann et al., SIGGRAPH 2009.