Lecture 24

Mead Example: CrazyBallTossMoveCamera
Mead Example: BallTossAround
Mead Example: WindTurbine
Mead Example: WindTurbines
Mead Example: MovingCubes
Mead Example: SineBall
Mead Example: Snowing
Mead Example: Orbit

Lecture 24: Advanced Animation
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Agenda

Announcements
Ongoing tasks
- Final Project
- Studio/Lab Bonus 1: Stained Glass Windows if you are interested
- Studio/Lab 9: Animation due Monday evening
- Up to 4 bonus submissions of shared models as in Studio/Lab 7: Shared Models due on the last day of classes.
Exam 2 in one week
- in class, Tuesday, 4/30
- topics covered are up to and including today's class the animation lab, focus on topics since exam 1
- ground rules: closed book, closed notes, closed neighbors, no electronic devices permitted
- exception: you may prepare and bring along a single 8 (1)/(2) ×11 double-sided sheet of handwritten notes
- we will have some time for review in class on Thursday, 4/25
- interest in an extra review session the evening of Monday, 4/29?
- practice exam out - your exam will have questions similar to the ones you see there
Lecture assignment 23 recap
In-class exercise. Complete the exercise started at the end of last class: take any static (i.e., not animated) Mead model, either a class example or a model of your own, and add some simple animation.
Submit by demonstrating in class for 10 lecture assignment points. If you finish before some of your classmates, please experiment with yours to make a more interesting animation or help your classmates get theirs working.
Advanced animation
- moving the camera
- filming multiple segments
- order of transformation application for named components
- mathematical functions of parameters

Due at the start of class, Thursday, April 25.

You need not submit answers to these questions, but you will have a chance to ask questions about them at the start of class.

Look at the practice exam questions.

Examples