Accessible Animation via Simplicial Complexes
aka... "Simulation of Happy Jello"
Group final project (Dan Keefe, Liz Marai, and Tomer Moscovich) for CS229 -- Algorithmic Animation, Fall 2000; based on the Siggraph'00 Ngo et al. paper ("Accessible Animation and Customizable Graphics via Simplicial Configuration Modeling").
The final project report is here.
Some screenshots (courtesy of dfk, gem, tm)
Dancing Santa:
Swinging Bob (Bob the Trapeze Guy is actually controlled by a hidden mass-spring simulator):
Wiggling jello (the jello is controlled by the mass-spring network shown in fig. 4):
Link to Paul Heckbert's Jell-O page
Liz Marai
