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 0: Home Page assigned 28 September 1999 due 5 October 1999	UW CSE Web FAQ  NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML  HTML Primer  HTML Resources
Project 1: Impressionist Assigned: 5 October 1999 Due: 19 October 1999 Artifact Due: 22 October 1999	Handout Getting Started with impressionist Skeleton code Sample solution Sample Solution 2 with known memory leaks fixed. OpenGL tutorial Tcl/Tk resources  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. Artifacts
Project 2: Articulate Assigned: 19 october 1999 Due: 2 November 1999 Artifact Due: 5 November 1999	Handout  Skeleton code and samples  Getting started with the modeler  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 Artifacts
Project 3: Trace Assigned: 2 November 1999 Due: 16 November 1999 Artifact Due: 19 November 1999	Handout  Skeleton code  Sample Solution (Multiprocessor Friendly) 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 Artifacts
Project 4: Animator Assigned: 16 November 1999 Due: 30 November 1999 Artifact Due: 7 December 1999	Handout  Skeleton code  Sample Solution  Bézier curves illustration  Help Session Notes  C2 cubic interpolation notes  by Bartels, Beatty, and Barsky. New version of Modeler.lib  New Modeler.h  Artifacts