CS466 Project Topics

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 ported to the SGI Octane Workstation at the end.

2 Persons

Deformation of a generic face model for modeling and animating face models of individualsr: At the end, the project should be ported to SGI Octane Workstation.

3 Persons

Articulated Figure Animation: Logical extensions to the 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. Possible extensions are lifting loads in a dynamically realistic way, ladder climbing, different walking behaviors, or producing antropometrically correct human figures of various percentiles (sizes).

2 Persons

L-systems for plant generation: Improving an existing software for plant generation. The software uses L-systems (Lindenmayer systems) to generate trees, flowers, and other botanic structures. L-systems are grammars similar to Chomsky (context sensitive) grammars. They generate strings which are interpreted by a graphics interpreter to generate trees, flowers etc. The system currently works. However, needs some improvements like, modeling and animation of the plant growth, generation of different tree and flower like structures which are not generated using L-systems up to now, and improving the user interface for the software. Also, some other improvements like interacting with the environment or with each other when the plants are growing. An alternative is to implement a synthetic topiary (garden) with lots of trees, flowers, etc.

2 Persons

View-dependent visualization in urban scenery: This project will be in the form of adding new modules to an existing view-dependent visualization system. These may be implementing stereoscopic visualization, view-dependent visualization etc.

? Persons

Any other meaningfull project that you may come up with

Project Requirements

• You should give a project proposal until March 9th, 2006 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 8th, 2006 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 10th Wednesday (last week of courses). 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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