Final Project

Last modified: Fri Jan 15 15:44:40 EST 1999

Links to final project web pages

• Drive Blind
  Brian Fujito, Evan Greenberg, Arna Ionescu, Bill Lund
  advisor: min

• Ice Queen
  Mao Chen, Zaijin Guan, Zhiyan Liu, Xiaohu Qie
  advisor: emilp

• Virtual 3D Teleconferencing
  Jie Chen, Eun-Young Lee, Addy Ngan
  advisor: af

• Tour de photo
  Thom Knowles, Saadiq Rodgers-King, Bebeth Schenk
  advisor: emilp

• Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs
  Rob Kalnins, Hidekazu Oki
  advisor: af

• Siege
  Dan Achterman, Wilmot Li, Matt Ryan
  advisor: min

Introduction

1. Go back to one of the assignments and expand your solution. For example, you could write a ray tracer that supports all of the extra credit enhancements and a wider class of objects and more lights and ... Or you could combine your modeler and curve editor into one great animation system, or...
2. subdivision surfaces
3. "tour into the picture" (as seen in the video on Monday Dec 13)
4. natural phenomena: plants, water/rain, tornado, lightning, clouds/smoke, mountains
non-photorealistic rendering: oil painting/impressionism, watercolour, pen & ink, also animated (?)
5. CSG/implicit surfaces modeler
6. radiosity solver
7. the Ultimate Game Program
8. design and implement a project of your own.

To give you an idea, here are some old final project web pages:

• extended ray tracer
• driving simulation (don't take this page too seriously :-)
• virtual fighter type game
• fractal landscape designer
• Escape 426 game

Constraints

1. You must work in a group of size 3 or 4. You can work in a team of 2 if you really want to.
2. Your project must be able to be demoed in reasonable fashion to your classmates. This means that it must be completed by the due date and that you must be present to show the class how wonderful your project is. Hint: Many a project has involved less work but demoed very well and got a high grade

Each team will be assigned one of {af, emilp, min} as their contact person to help in executing the project.

Demo day

Your demo should be about 10-15 minutes long. You should show us what you've done, tell us how you did it and tell us what was easy/what was difficult. Also be prepared to tell us what you would have done with more time, how the group divided the project, etc.

Your project web page should be updated to contain information about your project, perhaps some demo things (depending on the project), a link to documentation, a link to source code and a link to an executable that we can download and run.

Grading of the projects will be largely on the demos, but we will also expect to download them and run them on our own. Also, we will read the documentation.

Timetable

• December 13, 1998 -- class discussion about final project
• December 17, 1998 -- each group must create a web page describing its project
• December 18, 1998 -- in class, each group will describe its project
• January 15, 1999 -- project demo's