Projects -- CSE 3280 Computer Graphics Programming

William Shoaff

Administration

You need to know when, what, and how to submit your projects for review.

• Due dates for the projects are given in the syllabus. To avoid inconsistency due dates are only posted in the syllabus.
• Projects must be submitted on time. A penalty of 5 points will be accessed for each 24 hour period that a project is past due.
• A brief description of what is expected for each project follows. Additional requirements and explanations are included in each project description.
• An extra credit project is provided. Do it because you want to, not because you have to.
• Projects are to be turned in using the department's submit server. Details on submission for each project are included in their descriptions.

Intellectual Responsibility

You will, no doubt, use other people's code as a skeleton on which you will flesh out your applications. There is nothing wrong with this provided

• You do not violate a copyright.
• You attribute to others work that is not yours.
• You provide complete citation information for any code you did not develop yourself.

See to the department's code of honor and the university's policy on academic dishonesty.

Pair Programming

You may pair with one other person to develop the projects, but the pair must following the extreme programming paradigm for how two people develop programs as a pair

Project Overviews

• Project One: Define at least one geometric object (model) that maps onto appropriate graphics primitives. Create at least one instance of the model. Define a viewing environment in which it appears. Enable hidden surface elimination. Use color to render the model. Develop a simple idle callback function to animate the scene, moving either the model or view or both. Additional requirements and a more complete description of Project One is available in the requirements document

• Project Two: Using the same or different geometry as in Project One, increase the sophistication of your rendering by adding shading and lights to the scene. Illustrate ambient, diffuse, and specular lighting. Use multiple lights, colored lights, or spotlights to illustrate the effects they can achieve. Additional requirements and a more complete description of Project Two is available in the requirements document

• Project three: Using the same or different geometry as in Project Two, focus on interacting with with scene by adding keyboard, mouse, menu, button, slider and other controls as appropriate for your application. Additional requirements and a more complete description of Project Three is available in the requirements document

• Project four: Using the same or different geometry as in Project Three, increase the hierarchical complexity of your model and increase the sophistication of your rendering by adding clipping planes, alpha blending, fog, or texture mapping. Consider 3D viewing with stereo pairs. Additional requirements and a more complete description of Project Four is available in the requirements document

• Extra Credit Project: Develop a graphics application using an API that is different from the one you have used for the previous projects. Additional requirements and a more complete description of the Extra Credit Project is available in the requirements document

Presentations

Graphics applications are developed for others to see. Throughout the semester you will be asked to show off projects that you have completed.