Dr. Robert W. Sumner Associate Director, Disney Research Zurich Adjunct Professor, ETH Zurich sumner [at] disneyresearch.com [ CV ] Teaching 251-0570-00 P: Game Programming Laboratory This semester, I'm teaching a course on game design. Students gain an in-depth understanding of the technology underlying computer games by designing and implementing a computer game for the XBox 360 console. We wrote an article describing how this course serves as a capstone to the ETH Computer Science and Visual Computing program, which will appear in a conference on Game Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE 2008). Check out the student-created games from the 2007 course. [ Course Website ] [ ETH Catalog ] Research The ETH Game Programming Laboratory: A Capstone for Computer Science and Visual Computing Robert W. Sumner, Nils Thuerey, Markus Gross Game Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE 2008) [ PDF 2M ] Curvature-Domain Shape Processing Michael Eigensatz, Robert W. Sumner, Mark Pauly Eurographics 2008 [ PDF 2.2M ] Embedded Deformation for Shape Manipulation Robert W. Sumner, Johannes Schmid, Mark Pauly SIGGRAPH 2007 [ PDF 3.4M ] [ AVI 37M ] Inverse Kinematics for Reduced Deformable Models Kevin G. Der, Robert W. Sumner, Jovan Popović SIGGRAPH 2006 [ PDF 400k ] Mesh Modification Using Deformation Gradients Robert W. Sumner Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005 [ PDF 12M ] Mesh-Based Inverse Kinematics Robert W. Sumner, Matthias Zwicker, Craig Gotsman, Jovan Popović SIGGRAPH 2005 [ PDF 2.2M ] [ MP4 18M ] [ Project Page ] Deformation Transfer for Triangle Meshes Robert W. Sumner, Jovan Popović SIGGRAPH 2004 [ PDF 2.0M ] [ MP4 9.6M ] [ Project Page ] Pattern Formation in Lichen Robert W. Sumner Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001 [ PDF 6.3M ] Animating Sand, Mud, and Snow Robert W. Sumner, James F. O'Brien, Jessica K. Hodgins Journal: Computer Graphics Forum 1999 Conference: Graphics Interface 1998 [ PDF 287K ] [ QT 4.7M ] [ Project Page ]