Links to Related Sites on the Web

Chapter 1: Introduction

• at Amazon: Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood (BOOK)
• at Amazon: The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston (BOOK)
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION)
• MIDI Manufacturers Association (PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION)
• The Internet Movie Database

Chapter 2: Technical Background

• at Amazon: Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach using OpenGL by Ed Angel (BOOK)
• Wolfram MathWorld's Quaternions
• Wolfram MathWorld's Exponential Map

Chapter 3: Interpolating Values

• Andy Salter's Spline Curves and Surfaces (TUTORIAL)
• Wikipedia's Pathfinding

Chapter 4: Interpolation-Based Animation

• Steve May's AL, the animation language animation languages
• UNC's Fast Volume-Preserving Free Form Deformation Using Multi-Level Optimization (RESEARCH)
• at Amazon: Warping and Morphing of Graphical Objects by J. Gomes, L. Darsa, and L. Velho (BOOK)

Chapter 5: Kinematic Linkages

• Tiffany Barnes' Inverse Kinamatics with an emphasis on Cyclic Coordinate Descent (PPT FILE)
• Chris Welman's , Inverse Kinematics and Geometric Constraints for Articulated Figure Manipulation (MASTER'S THESIS - PDF file)

Chapter 6: Motion Capture

• ACCAD's Open Motion Project (DATA FOR DOWNLOAD)
• CMU's Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database (DATA FOR DOWNLOAD)
• Camera callibration toolbox for Matlab (SOFTWARE FOR DOWNLOAD)
• A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration by Zhengyou Zhang (RESEARCH PAGE)

Chapter 7: Physically Based Motion

• Collegeboard's Basic physics equations(PDF file)
• The Physics Classroom
• Paul Nylander's Physics
• Robot Dynamics: Equations and Algorithms by Roy Featherstone and David Orin (RESEARCH PAPER - PDF FILE)
• Spacetime constraints by Adrew Witkin and Michael Kass (RESEARCH PAPER - PDF FILE)

Chapter 8: Fluids: Liquids and Gasses

• Boat Safe's Understanding and Utilizing the Secrets of Waves
• The Environmental Literacy Council's Clouds
• CG SocietyBANG! The Anatomy of Explosions
• Jos Stam's Dynamic Graphics Project Web Page

Chapter 9: Modeling and Animating Human Figures

• UPenn's Computer Graphics including the Center for Human Modelng and Simulation
• Simulating Humans: Computer Graphics, Animation, and Control by Norm Badler (Online BOOK)

Chapter 10: Facial Animation

• Animation Institute's Artificial Actor Project (RESEARCH PROJECT)
• Interactive Media Group's iFACE (RESEARCH PROJECT)
• A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent (RESEARCH PAPER - PDF)

Chapter 11: Modeling Behavior

• Gamma's Crowd and Multi-Agent Simulation
• Crowd Simulation Group (RESEARCH GROUP)
• Massive (SOFTWARE)
• Crowd Management Simulation (SOFTWARE)

Chapter 12: Special Models for Animation

• Jules Bloomenthal's Implicit surfaces (INTRODUCTORY PAPER - PDF FILE)
• Wikipedia's L-Systems
• JavaView's L-system Tutorial
• Wikipedia's Subdivision Surfaces
• D. Zorin's Subdivision for Modeling and Animation (SIGGRAPH COURSE NOTES)