CS466 Project Topics

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Making extensions to a parallel hierarchical radiosity system. The extensions could be clustering, texture mapping, and experimenting and measuring the performance of the system with large models, etc.

2 Persons

Improving an existing animation system for shadow play (Karagoz). The project requires putting together a couple of pieces of the software together to make it a tool for Shadow Play, like hierarchy editor, animation tool etc. Then, the project should be used to produce a realistic animation of the shadow play (according to a complete scenario). The project will be done on SGI Octane Workstation.

2 Persons

Deformation of a generic face model for modeling and animating face models of individuals using Free-form Deformation Technique. At the end, the project should be ported to SGI Octane Workstation.

2 Persons

Implementation of modeling and animation of articulated figures. You should define a generic articulated figure of acceptable complexity and use IKAN software developed in University of Pennsylvania for the analytical solution of inverse kinematics problem.

2 Persons

Implementation of subdivision surfaces. The scheme to implement may be Loop subdivision surfaces or Catmul-Clark subdivision surfaces with a meaningfull user interface.

2 Persons

Implementation of distributed raytracing and texture mapping for raytraced objects. You should implement the effects, like depth-of-field, penumbra (soft shadows), blurry reflections, blurry refractions, and spatial supersampling. You should produce nice looking pictures demonstrating the results.

2 Persons for each project

Implementation of a surface approximation algorithm. You should experiment with your program by trying it on really big models.

• Implementation of ``Simplification Envelopes''
• Implementation of ``Appearance Preserving Simplification''
• Out-of-core simplification of very large models (approximately 100 million polygons that does not fit into main memory)

2 Persons

Implementation of Escherization. We have a partial current implementation to begin with.

2 Persons

Implementation of a geometry compression algorithm and experimenting with it on complex graphical models.

? Persons

Any other meaningfull project that you may come up with

Project Requirements

• You should give a project proposal until February 28st, 2002 stating the name of the project and name of the students that will do the project.
• You will also give me progress report (approximately 10 pages) until April 4th, 2002 about the progress of your project, covering a survey of the subject area, algorithms that you will use, data structures, and other implementation details, etc.
• Final project report and demonstrations will be due May 9th Wednesday. This deadline is sharp. Final project report should be a superset of the the progress report and should extend it with implementation details, results of project, etc.
• At the end, I expect to students to port their projects to my SGI Octane Workstation (or PC if it is done for PC's).

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