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Welcome to the website for Parent, R: Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques, 2nd Edition.
Computer Animation
About This Companion Site
This site includes:
- Source code - C and Mathematica
- Figures from the text in JPG, PDF, and PDF
- Instructor slides in PowerPoint
- Animations
- Links to related sites
- Errata sheet
Source Code - C and Mathematica
Figures from the Text
- All Chapters (36511KB Zip File)
- Chapter 1 (1841KB Zip File)
- Chapter 2 (2017KB Zip File)
- Chapter 3 (3305KB Zip File)
- Chapter 4 (5815KB Zip File)
- Chapter 5 (2106KB Zip File)
- Chapter 6 (568KB Zip File)
- Chapter 7 (2272KB Zip File)
- Chapter 8 (1823KB Zip File)
- Chapter 9 (4534KB Zip File)
- Chapter 10 (3105KB Zip File)
- Chapter 11 (1108KB Zip File)
- Chapter 12 (1934KB Zip File)
- Appendix A (2275KB Zip File)
- Appendix B (3803KB Zip File)
Instructor Slides
- all chapters (39617KB Zip File)
- Chapter 1 (817KB Zip File)
- Chapter 2 (6KB Zip File)
- Chapter 3 (625KB Zip File)
- Chapter 4 (4634KB Zip File)
- Chapter 5 (2461KB Zip File)
- Chapter 6 (1523KB Zip File)
- Chapter 7 (2407KB Zip File)
- Chapter 8 (4946KB Zip File)
- Chapter 9 (1277KB Zip File)
- Chapter 10 (247KB Zip File)
- Chapter 11 (740KB Zip File)
- Chapter 12 (19929KB Zip File)
Animations
Animations depicting the basic techniques discussed in the text will be posted here as they become available. The animations are in a variety of formats including: animated GIFs, MPEGS, and Quicktime Movies.- IKaltJacobian (73KB MOV File)
- IKCCD (71KB MOV File)
- IKJacCntrl (74KB MOV File)
- IKJacobian (74KB MOV File)
- IKJacobianDamped (73KB MOV File)
- IKJacobianTranspose (71KB MOV File)
Links to Related Sites on the Web
Chapter 1
- Gaby Wood's Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life at Amazon.com
- The Illusion of Life: Disney Animationat Amazon.com
- SMPTE.org
- MIDI.org
- The Internet Movie Database
Chapter 2
- Ed Angel's Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach using OpenGL at Amazon.com
- Quaternions from Wolfram MathWorld
- Exponential Map from Wolfram MathWorld
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
- CADTutor's key frame animation
- AL, the animation language animation languages
- Fast Volume-Preserving Free Form Deformation Using Multi-Level Optimization
- Warping and Morphing of Graphical Objects by J. Gomes, L. Darsa, and L. Velho, Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
- ACCAD's Motion capture data
- CMU's Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database
- Animazoo Free BVH Downloads
- Tsai Camera Calibration Software
- Camera callibration toolbox for Matlab
- A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration by Zhengyou Zhang
Chapter 7
- Basic physics equations - PDF
- The Physics Classroom
- Paul Nylander's Physics
- Robot Dynamics: Equations and Algorithms by Roy Featherstone and David Orin - PDF
- Spacetime constraints by Adrew Witkin and Michael Kass - PDF
Chapter 8
- Understanding and Utilizing the Secrets of Waves
- The Environmental Literacy Council - Clouds
- CG SocietyBANG! The Anatomy of Explosions
- ThinkQuest Fire
- NASA's Navier-Stokes Equations
- Jos Stam's Toronto Home Page
Chapter 9
- Jos Stam Homepage
- Norm Badler
- Norm Badler'sSimulating Humans: Computer Graphics, Animation, and Control Badler's book on animating human figure
- UGS Tecnomatix Jack
- MIRALab biomechanics websites
- EPFL
Chapter 10
Links to come
Chapter 11
Links to come
Chapter 12
Links to come
Appendix A
Links to come
Appendix B
Links to come
Errata
- Errata for CA (52KB HTML Document)
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