Project Specifications

CPSC589/689

September 2011

The project of this course includes the following major sections:

1 Proposal

2 Programming

3 Application

4 Report

5 Presentation

Proposal

Each group must submit a proposal about the project. The proposal should be a short document (at most 2 pages) with the following information (use them as a “guideline”)

• Title
• Abstract: Briefly describe what, why and how?.
• Introduction: Problem Statement and Literature Review
• Goals and Objectives: What will the project accomplish?
• Methodology: How will you investigate the question?  What will you do and how will you do it?
• Expected Results: What do you expect to find out?
• Timeline: When will you start?  How long will each step take?
• Works Cited: What sources were used? The programming language? API? platform?
• Group member's responsibilities (for undergrads)

Programming

It is the implementation of a modeling technique. This technique should relate to one of the following areas:

• NURBS , Splines, B-Splines
• Generic Surfaces including Surface of revolution, Ruled, Coons, and Cross-sectional blending Surfaces
• Sketch-based modeling
• Mesh processing
• Subdivision Surfaces
• Reverse Subdivision
• Multiresolution and Wavelets
• Implicit Modeling
• Solid modeling
• Volumetric modeling
• Point based modeling
• Procedural Modeling (Fractals, Physically based modeling)
• any other modeling techniques with my approval

Rendering

Although this course is not about rendering it is necessary to use at least some basic rendering techniques. You are free to use any OpenGL functions or your own code for Phong shading or ray-tracing from CPSC453 or other courses. If you are interested in using any other resource, you should discuss it with your TA or me.

Application

Your program should demonstrate an application of your chosen modeling technique through some exciting examples and objects.

Report and Presentation

All groups must provide a project report and present their work. The details will announce later.

Group Size

Each undergrad group is formed by two or three members. If these students want to have a team with more than three members or do their project individually, discuss the issue with me prior to the submission date. In the end of the semester, each member of grouped projects must evaluate other group members and should send a mark for them.

The grad students do their project individually.

Graduate students Paper Readings

Each grad student must review 2-3 paper related to their project and send a report (titled as related work). In addition they might be asked to give a 30 presentation.

The due date of this component is around mid November. The exact date will be announced later.

Possible Projects

I will announce some possible projects very soon for the students who do not have a clear idea as project.

Check the webpage of the course for any new comments on the projects.