MAT 200C: Digital Media Technology and Engineering
Spring 2012
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Starter Code
April 10
Conway's Game of Life
Link:
Wikipedia
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Original Scientific American article
fieldViewer
April 17
The Mandelbrot Set
Link:
Wikipedia
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Wikipedia, Julia Sets
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
April 19
Mandelbrot Potential
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Exploring the Mandelbrot Set
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Coloring Dynamical Systems in the Complex Plane
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Ray Tracing Deterministic 3-D Fractals
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Wikipedia, Buddhabrot
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Wikipedia, Mandelbulb
April 24
Newton fractals
Link:
Wikipedia
- Newton fractals
Link:
Wikipedia
- Newton-Raphson iteration
April 26
Diffusion Limited Aggregation
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Wikipedia
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Original Physical Review Letters article
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The Dielectric Breakdown Model
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The conformal mapping method
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The potential distribution around growing fractal clusters
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My version
May 1
Finite Differences - Gradients
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Wikipedia
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Mathworld
May 3
The Heat Equation
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Wikipedia - the heat equation
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Wikipedia - the Laplacian
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Wikipedia - the CFL condition
May 8
Reaction-Diffusion
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Wikipedia
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Turing's original article
, "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis"
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Turing patterns in the laboratory
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Greg Turk's version
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Witkin and Kass' version
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My version
Book:
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Book:
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
May 10
The Wave Equation
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Wikipedia
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Simulating Ocean Water
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A Numerically Efficient and Stable Algorithm for Animating Water Waves
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Rapid, stable fluid dynamics for computer graphics
May 15
Vibration
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Wikipedia - Vibration
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Wikipedia - Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?
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Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?
Book:
Theory of Vibration
May 17
Noise
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Perlin's original article
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Improving noise
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Wavelet noise
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Procedural noise using sparse Gabor convolution
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Anisotropic noise
(the one we implement)
May 24
Scalar Turbulence
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Perlin's original article
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Improving noise
Link:
Wavelet noise
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Procedural noise using sparse Gabor convolution
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Anisotropic noise
(the one we implement)
May 31
Incompressibility
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Curl Noise
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Wavelet Turbulence
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Evolving sub-grid turbulence for smoke animation
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Fast animation of turbulence using energy transport and procedural synthesis
June 5
Sound
Link:
FoleyAutomatic: physically-based sound effects for interactive simulation and animation
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Synthesizing sounds from rigid-body simulations
Book:
Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications
June 7
Final Presentations