Resources & Courses

Baraff & Witkin’s SIGGRAPH Course notes on physically based modeling (particle systems, rigid bodies, constrained dynamics, etc.) (2001)

Nealen et al. Eurographics State of the Art Report on Physically Based Deformable Models in Computer Graphics (2005)

Robert Bridson’s SIGGRAPH Course notes on Fluids (2007)

Muller et al. SIGGRAPH Course on Real-Time Physics (2008)

Wojtan et al. SIGGRAPH course on Liquid Simulation with Mesh-Based Surface Tracking (2011)

Bender et al. Eurographics State of the Art Report on Interactive Simulation of Rigid Body Dynamics in Computer Graphics (2012)

Barbic and Sifakis’ SIGGRAPH Course notes on FEM / Model Reduction (2012)

Liu & Jain’s Quick Tutorial on Multibody Dynamics

Ihmsen et al. Eurographics State of the Art Report on SPH Fluids in Computer Graphics (2014)

Ladislav Kavan’s Physics-based Animation course on YouTube (2014)

Bender et al. Eurographics Tutorial: Position-Based Simulation Methods in Computer Graphics (2015)

Jiang et al. SIGGRAPH Course: The Material Point Method for Simulating Continuum Materials (2016)

Bargteil & Shinar SIGGRAPH Course: An Introduction to Physics-Based Animation (2018) [Video from SIGGRAPH 2019]

Fratarcangeli et al. SIGGRAPH Asia Course: Parallel Iterative Solvers for Real-Time Elastic Deformations (2018)

Koschier et al. Eurographics Tutorial: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Techniques for the Physics Based Simulation of Fluids and Solids (2019)

Kim & Eberle’s Dynamic Deformables: Implementation and Production Practicalities (2020)

David I.W. Levin’s Physics-Based Animation YouTube series (2020)

Andrews & Erleben’s Contact and Friction Simulation for Computer Graphics (2021)

Matthias Mueller-Fischer’s Ten Minute Physics YouTube series (2021)

Koschier et al.’s A Survey on SPH Methods in Computer Graphics (2022)

Li & Jiang’s Physics-Based Simulation (2024)

Chand’s In-Depth FLIP tutorial (2025)

Holz et al. STAR report on Multiphysics Simulation in Computer Graphics (2025)

Li et al. Fluid Simulation with the Lattice Boltzmann Method (2026)

11 Responses to Resources & Courses

  1. sfaer says:
    February 5, 2015 at 11:26 am

    Hey great site,

    You can find Ladislav Kavlan’s “Physic-Based Animation” course on youtube, and it is quite interesting.

    Cheers

    Reply
  2. christopherbatty says:
    February 5, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    Thanks, I’ll add it!

    Reply
  3. Wenxian says:
    June 22, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Hi Prof. Christopher Batty!

    Just a kind note:

    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/CS5643/2015sp/

    A really good course regarding physically based animation 🙂

    Cheers,

    Reply
  4. Christopher Batty says:
    July 5, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    Thanks for the suggestion! However, usually I don’t include university courses, but just SIGGRAPH/Eurographics courses (or rather the associated notes).

    Reply
  5. Donald House says:
    January 2, 2017 at 7:47 pm

    A great resource. Thanks. I wanted to let you know of our new book, Donald House and John Keyser: Foundations of Physically Based Modeling and Animation, CRC Press. It is organized as an introduction to the field.

    Reply
  6. Anonymous says:
    January 3, 2017 at 12:02 pm

    Great, thanks!

    Reply
  7. Anonymous says:
    August 2, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    Hi Christopher thank you for the wonderful web site. Have you found the new updated Pixar physical simulation course? I think it is a good course to add to this list: http://www.tkim.graphics/DYNAMIC_DEFORMABLES/

    Reply
    • christopherbatty says:
      August 4, 2020 at 8:01 pm

      I’d indeed seen it, but had forgotten to post it, so I appreciate the reminder. Will do so right away. Thanks!

      Reply

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