Portfolios

Purposes

1. Each student will have a "product" with which to show their work after the course ends.
2. Basis for a portion of the grade.
3. Help bring some continuity to the separate assignments.

Format

1. folder on a computer file system with a name of the form Susan-Smith-Image-Processing-Portfolio
2. good resolution copies (typically at least 256 by 256) of each source image and each product image.
3. copies of any formula page files or Python files involved.
4. a Word or other document file containing the material in a presentable format that conforms to presentation requirements.
5. optionally, include a subfolder for each portfolio item, containing the files used to construct that item.
6. a PDF version of the document.

Presentation Requirements:

1. A cover page (that includes a title and related information) of the form

               Portfolio of Image Processing Work
                        Josephine Jackson
         Created in the University of Washington course
   "Pixels, Numbers, and Programs: Visual Computing with Python"
                         (CSE 190 D)
                     Winter Quarter, 2015
   

2. A table of contents, consisting of a page containing a list of your portfolio items, by title, and what page they occur on. (Your pages should be numbered.)
3. An "introduction" that provides an explanation of the context in which the porfolio was produced. It should start by explaining what the course was about and then describe what software was used to produce the effects. It should then explain how the examples are organized -- for example, you could explain how some of them illustrate enhancement of images, others illustrate distortions, and others illustrate particular effects.
4. Each example transformation should show the source(s) on one page (left) and the transformed image on the facing page (right).
5. Each example should include a textual description of both the technical aspect of the transformation or creation of the new image or effect, and the artistic aspect -- what kind of visual or emotional effect is intended or suggested. Each example should also contain either a title or an identifying number. Third, each example should include a description of how the example responds to the particular assignment problem that prompted it.

How many items should be included?

• Minimum: 3 items

  (corresponding roughly to a just-passing grade on the portfolio, assuming the items are satisfactory)

• Normal: 4 items

  (corresponding to full credit, assuming each item is done well)

• Maximum: 10 items

  (items beyond number 4 can be used to make up points in the quizzes and midterm categories, with the maximum make-up equal to half the missed quiz/midterm points. Each portfolio item beyond 4 is worth up to 4 quiz/midterm points. So at the end of the term if you have 107 quiz/midterm points out of 140, then the maximum you can make up is 1/2 the missed quiz points (140-107) which is 1/2 of 33 or 17. To get the 17 points, you'll need 5 extra portfolio items for a total of 9 portfolio items.)

Sample Item

Due Dates

Final Portfolios: Final portfolios are due at 11:59PM on Friday, March 13, through Catalyst CollectIt. They should contain not only the cover page, but also a table of contents that numbers and lists the names of all your portfolio items and the numbers of the pages on which they show up. You should have at least four portfolio items. In addition to starred exercises, portfolio items can be based on other effects you have created using PixelMath. But in case you do something creative, you still need to provide a clear technical explanation of it in the format described above.

Turning in your portfolios: