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Sub-Major 2. Computer Animation |
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Six hours per week
for one semester. |
| Prerequisite |
Sub-Major I |
| Aims |
To gain practical
experience in 3D computer animation and video presentation.
To learn about the history of computer animation in the context of both
the arts and the sciences.
To acquire computer programming techniques for computer animation.
To develop a detailed understanding of the fundamentals of 3D computer
animation, its language and techniques. |
| Content |
Content
Animation Seminar: Analysis of the compositional and algorithmic
techniques used in computer animation with emphasis on perceptual and
aesthetic characteristics, including fractals, particle systems,
behavioural and procedural modelling.
3D Computer Animation
Three-dimensional modelling and rendering techniques for animation.
Exercises in motion scripting and animating hierarchies, cameras and
lights.
Computer Animation Theory
3D raster graphics fundamentals, including wire frame displays and
hidden surface removal. Rendering using lighting and shading
models, mappings, ray-tracing and radiosity.
An introduction to 3D geometry, including projective geometry and
homogeneous coordinates, polyhedra, splines and patches, analytic
geometry of parametric and implicit curves and surfaces.
Animation geometry, including motion paths, hierarchical motion and
metamorphisms.
Computer Programming
Numeric conversion and bit logic.
The structure of a FORTH multitasking environment. Recursion.
File 1/0.
Dictionary searching and vectored execution. User variables.
Vocabularies.
Extending the compiler.
A FORTH assembler.
Creation and manipulation of data structures for musicai and/or
animation composition.
Case study of an music or animation application.
Design and implementation of a simple music or animation application. |
| Assessment |
Students are
required to prepare and submit one discussion paper on an aspect of
animation (an animator, a work or a technique), and present a 30-minute
talk on the topic. They are also required to keep a journal of
seminar notes. The first half of the semester will be spent doing
short exercises to be presented together in a folio. Students are
required to prepare a major work for performance during the last half
of the semester. There will be periodic exercises and assignments. |
| Texts |
Brodie, L., Starting FORTH, 2nd edn,
Prentice-Hall, 1987.
Tanenbaum, A.S., Structured Computer
Organization, 2nd edn, Prentice-Hall, 1984. |
| References |
Brodie, L., Thinking FORTH, Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Chandor, A., The Penguin Dictionary
of Microprocessors, Penguin, 1988.
Durrett, R., Color and the Computer,
Academic Press, 1987.
Foley, J., van Dam, A., Feiner, S., and Hughes, J., Computer Graphics: Principle and Practice,
Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Laybourne, K., The Animation Book,
Crown Publishers, 1979.
Lewell, J., Computer Graphics: A
Survey of Current Techniques and Applications, Orbis Publishing,
1985.
Newman, WM., and Sproull, R.E, Principles
of Interactive Computer Graphics, McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Rogers, D.F., and Adams, J.A., Mathematical
Elements for Computer Graphics, McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Malina, EJ. (ed.), Kinetic Art:
Theory and Practice: Selections from the Journal Leonardo.
Dover, 1974.
Speed, A.H., Desktop Video: A Guide
to Personal and Small Business Video Production, Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanavich, 1988.
Software manuals as appropriate.
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