Lab 6: Final Project
CS 445: Computer Graphics, Fall 2008

This lab will be worth the equivalent of 3 weekly labs.

Goals

• Learn a topic in OpenGL not covered in class
• Join together different elements of what you have learned into a single application

Something New

Learn about a topic that has not yet been covered in class. Implement a simple demonstation program. Possible topics include:

• Shadows: Light Maps (Projected Shadows) or Depth Maps
• Stereoscopic viewing, tutorial. Note, I have several types of 3D glasses.
  • Bones (two images side by side), also see
  • pulsar - sort of works with red/blue or chromadepth
• Environment Maps: Cube maps, see Sample maps
• Picking
• Mipmapping
• Anti-aliasing, Multisampling, and Fog in OpenGL
• 3D Procedural Textures - good for such things as wood and marble
• Vertex Arrays and Vertex Buffer Objects working
• Accumulation Buffer - used for traces, motion blur, depth of field, etc
• Quaternions
• Perlin Noise (see talk and java code but you need to understand what it does)
• Multitextures (layered textures) - might be good toether with noise
• Bezier (spline) Curves and Surfaces
• Morphing (e.g. using curves)
• other

Be prepared to give a minimum of a 15 minute presention of your topic to the class. The presentation should include 1) a brief powerpoint presentation (e.g. 3-4 slides) outlining the key concepts and necessary code components and 2) demonstration Java program. Place the demonstation program on enfuzion for others to try out on their own.

Schedule of Presentations: By Tues, Nov 18, you should have picked your topic.

• Tues, Nov 25:
  1. Brett and Alex: Perlin Noise
• Tues, Dec 2:
  1. Wade: Stereoscopic Viewing
• Thurs, Dec 4:
  1. Egan: Picking
  2. David: Bezier Curves
  3. Zander: Accumulation Buffer
  4. Eddie: Shadows
• Tues, Dec 8 :
  1. Megan: TBD

Final Project

1. Proposal, Tues, Nov 18: Write a one page typewritten project description. Include a breakdown of the project into at 3 stages. Each stage should be completed by the dates below. The proposal should include the following sections (see template (doc)):
   • Description
   • OpenGL Tools and Techniques that will be used
   • References
   • Stage 1 Deliverables
   • Stage 2 Deliverables
   • Stage 3 Deliverables
2. Stage 1, Tues, Nov 25: Demo stage 1. Zip and mail to gorr.
3. Stage 2,Thurs, Dec 4, Demo 2: Demo stage 2. Zip and mail to gorr.
4. Stage 3,Tues, Dec 9: Demo stage 3, the final program Zip and mail to gorr.