Projects

The following project descriptions are subject to change without notice up until the day they are assigned. However, you're welcome to look ahead at the descriptions, as they exist now, to get an idea of what's coming.

The supported development environment is MS Visual C++ 6.0 under Windows NT 4.0. There are fourteen machines in Sieg 228 with special OpenGL-accelerated graphics cards and big monitors. Other NT machines within the department will work as well. You're welcome to do the projects elsewhere, but you will need a machine with 24-bit color.

Project 1: Impressionist Assigned: 31 March 1999 Due: 14 April 1999 Artifact Due: 16 April 1999	Favorite artifacts Artifacts Handout Skeleton code Sample solution Hints OpenGL tutorial MFC Tutorial - How to add controls to the Dialog. Some simple bitmaps you can use as input files. A large collection of big, high-quality, free digital photographs that you could use for creating artifacts. Another collection, created by the author of the original impressionist program, Paul Haeberli.
Project 2: Modeler Assigned: 14 April 1999 Due: 28 April 1999 Artifact Due: 30 April 1999	Favorite artifacts Artifacts Handout Skeleton code and samples Getting started with the modeler Hierarchical modeling demos (cylinder and tentacles) Tcl/Tk resources Height Fields - an idea for triangles texturetest.zip a test of texture mapping - unzip onto a floppy (it is hardcoded to load the modeler.dll from A:\, ignoring the MODELER environment variable
Project 3: Trace Assigned:28 April 1999 Due:17 May 1999 Artifact Due:19 May 1999	Handout Skeleton code Sample Solution Description of the .ray file format How to convert your project 2 model to a Trace input file Phong formula and other useful math equations - MSWord document Notes from the Intro Sessions - MSWord document Depth of Field theory and derivation - MSWord document Updates and bug fixes Artifacts: All of them and the Favorites
Project 4: Animate Assigned: 17 May 1999 Due: 2 June 1999 Artifact Due: 4 June 1999	Handout Skeleton code and sample solution Bézier curves illustration Help Session Notes