1. Implementation of Hierarchical Radiosity using an existing Radiosity system (2)
2. Assigned Berkan Yalcinkaya & Mustafa Kutluturk
   Implementation of Volume Rendering algorithms: ``Volume Visualization by Ray Casting'' (2)
3. Assigned Serkan Bayraktar
   Mass-spring Systems for Deformable Models: Extending an existing 2d spring-mass system to model and animate spring-mass models, which is an approximation for elastically deformable models, like cloth. Existing system is called xspringies (developed by Dougles DeCarlo of Rutgers University). Improvements expected are to extend the system to be three dimensional rather than two dimensional, include different primitives like superquadrics, Bezier (or B-spline) Surfaces, as spring-mass models, (2)
4. Assigned Selim Yazicioglu & Burkay Genc
   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. (2)
5. Assigned Tekin Kabasakal & Cenk Sen
   Implementation of modeling and animation of liquid phenomena (2)
6. Assigned Ahmet Vural & Ozgur Gundogdu
   Implementation of modeling and animation of gaseous phenomena (2)
7. Making Logical Additions to an Existing Facial Animation System: We expect the generation of the face models of individuals from a generic face model by deforming the generic face model using the free-form deformation technique according to the front and side photographs of individuals (2)

You may come up with your own project topic provided that it is an acceptable project for CS565 (Before proposing it, first explain it to me and get my approval.)

You should also provide (augment) tools to your implementations so that the results can be viewed interactively.

For projects, You could use MESA (OpenGL) 3D graphics Library, X-Windows Programming environment (Motif/XFORMS user interface), and C/C++/Java Programming Language. You should make necessary arrangements to demonstrate your projects.

You should give a project proposal until October 1st, 2000 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 November 17st, 1999 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 22nd December 2000. (Last day of classes).

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