CMP 80c Final Project
Demonstrations Due EITHER
Tuesday 3/12, 2002 during class, OR
Sunday 3/17, 2002 7:30-10:30PM in BE109
Examples of
Past Final Projects
Make up late days with your
project!
See below for details!
Final Project
The content of this project is very flexible.
You should create an image or an animation
BEYOND what you have done for the assignments.
It should be done using Lightwave on the BE 109 workstations and
demonstrated there during the finals period.
This must be an individual project.
If you want to use another program, you must get approval
from Professor Wilhelms by Friday, March 8, 2002. Make the
request by email. If you do use another program, it must
run in BE 109 or you must bring in a computer to demonstrate.
You must demonstrate how the project was accomplished, not
just show final images.
Demonstration and Submission Requirements
You must demonstrate how you created your project by
showing the models and scene files that you used. You
must also show the final images and animation. The
files must be submitted using the CATS submit program,
as usual. Images and animations might be posted on the
class art gallery website.
The demonstrations can either be during class, Tuesday,
March 12, or during the final period Sunday March 17,
7:30-10:30pm. Demonstrations should take 3-5 minutes.
If you want to do your demonstration in class on that
Tuesday, you must send email to Professor Wilhelms
by Friday, March 8.
During the Sunday final period demonstrations,
you will be assigned a computer and a time.
Demonstrations will necessarily be brief - about 3 minutes on average.
You must be logged on to your computer, and be ready to demo
at the correct time (to be posted).
You are all encouraged to come watch other people's demos.
Try to get this done as early as possible
because there will be strong competition
for machines the last few days before the project is due.
Any kind of project will be worth much more than the
zero points you get for having nothing done.
Demonstrating the project to the class is important.
Late projects will not be accepted.
Make up late days with your
project!
After class on Tuesday, March 5, Prof. Wilhelms decided to extend an offer
to anyone who wants to present their finished project in class on
Tuesday, March 12. All presenters will recieve 5 early days good towards
making up late days left over at the end of the quarter from assignments.
If we get more responses than we can handle during class, people will be
picked on a first come first serve basis. If you'd like to take advantage
of this offer, please contact Prof.
Wilhelms.
Criteria
Professor Wilhelms will grade the final project,
using criteria such as the complexity
of the image; e.g., does it include interesting creative complex
surfaces not just default primitives or pre-made objects, does it show
the use of several surfaces, is it ray-traced, is it realistic
(if meant to be) and/or artistically successful, interesting,
and attractive?
20 points will be subtracted from the score if files are
not submitted properly.
The name of the submit directory is project. This replaces the a1, a2, etc.
directories used for the assignments.
Trouble uploading your project files?
If you are unable to fit all of your project files into your CATS account,
here is what you can do. Put as much as you can into your CATS account and
submit that. Then, start the FTP program (see the
Using 109 Notes web page for a general
description of its use). It will come up with the left side in
C:\UserTemp, and the right side in /afs/cats.ucsc.edu/users/?/???? (the ?
will be different for each person, but the last thing is your username).
So, in the left view, change to the directory on the hard drive or zip
disk where your files are all saved. In the right view, change the
directory (by typing in the text field at the top) to:
/afs/cats.ucsc.edu/class/cmps080c-jw.w02/project/username
where username is your CATS login, the same one at the end
when you are first logged in. If the directory doesn't exist, you have not
submitted any files yet... go back and do that first. Then you can upload
the rest of your files right into the submit directory.
If you have any questions about submitting your project, please send Mark
an e-mail (see the bottom of this page for the link).
Important
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No late projects will be accepted.
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During the demonstration, clearly explain how you created the
project. This includes demonstrating the object files, the
scene files, and at least two rendered image files.
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if you use anything in your project that you did not create
yourself, but found on the Internet or elsewhere, you must
explain this in your written description and during the
demonstration.
Questions?
Jane Wilhelms or
Mark Slater.