CS4735 project

Teams

Projects can be done in teams of up to 2 people. Please choose your teams ASAP; I will have SSD create git repositories for you to collaborate and hand in your projects.

Schedule

• December 2, Demo day
• December 17 Final Version project.

Evaluation

Each project has some "basics" listed; this is roughly what you need to do to get a passing mark. There are also several suggested enhancements, which will improve your mark. You can also come up with your own enhancements, but you should probably discuss them with me first, to see if I will consider them as grade-enhancing.

Projects

Overall Expectations

• 3D
• Implemented in JavaScript/WebGL without external libraries.
• You may use the libraries from the textbook
• Running in one of the browsers installed in the linux lab.
• reasonable framerate on the linux lab computers.
• ambient and diffuse lighting
• keyboard and/or mouse controls

Previous Years Projects

• 2014
• 2015 will be posted soon.

Planetarium

• animated planets, star (sun)

Basics

• multiple independent moving objects
• spherical meshes
• texturing
• flying camera

Enhancements

• shadows
• reflected lights
• multiple lights (binary star?)

Articulated models

• dancing robot
• walking person/animal
• molecule / tinkertoy simulation

Base

• several degrees of freedom
• multi-joint motion controller

Enhancements

• multiple figures
• complex mesh
• collision detection / snapping

Billiards Game

Basics

• texturing for table and balls
• specular lighting
• some simple physics models
• collision detection

Enhancements

• full multiple ball physics
• 3D motion (jumping cue ball)
• beam lights
• shadows

First person flying game

• dogfighting planes / spaceships
• asteroid field

Basic Expectations

• flying camera
• multiple independent object trajectories
• collision detection

Suggestions

• texturing
• complex meshes
• hierarchical collision detection
• varying speed
• shadows

Driving game

• tanks
• racecars

Basics

• collision detection
• multiple moving objects

Suggestions

• texturing
• complex meshes
• 2.5D terrains (e.g. hills)
• projectiles with trajectories

Resources

• NASA has just released a huge collection of models and textures