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Please read the standard note on plagiarism.
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Due: September 27.
Download it here: assignment1-cs533d.tar.gz
This assignment focuses on time integration and collision processing for particle systems.
Note the original version of the assignment had a small bug in the collision processing loop (collisions_solved was not set to true each time through the do loop --- kudos to Christopher Batty for finding this one).
November 10.
Download it here: assignment2.pdf
Assignment 3 is here.
It is due November 24.
Assignment 4 is here.
It is due in December: the earlier you hand it in, the earlier you get your mark.
Proposal due: November 10-ish.
Project due and presentation: December 1, in class.
The topic of the final project is up to you. Some possibilities include:
You should write me a brief proposal by Novemeber 11 at the latest, describing what it is you will simulate and what techniques you will use. If you include references to papers that have done this in the past, so much the better.