Projects for CS 497

Project I: Matrices, Vectors, and Multiplication of them.
Your Project must be able to do the following:

• Input and output matrices, vectors, and 3D points using stdin and stdout as well as a file.
• Multiply two 4x4 Dimension Matrices.
• Multiply a vector times a matrix.
• Normalize a vector in three coordinate space.
• Compute the cross and dot product of two vectors.
• Given four points, find the equation of a plane for the first three and determine if the last point lies in the plane.

You will be responsible for this project in groups of two people. You must comment all your code effectively so that I can follow what you are doing in them.

Handout(Word 97)

Handout(HTML)

Points: 100

Due Date: January 27, 1998.

Project II: 3D Wire Modeling

Using Project I code you must:

• Transform a 3D point to a 2D point given the following information about the world:
  • The position and angles in the world you are viewing from.
  • The size of the window on the world.
  • Distance from behind and in front of the view plane to clip.
  • The window size on the screen.
• Draw a given point in a window
• Draw a given polygon in a window.
• Read a file consisting of 3 floating point values as values of the x,y,z coordinates of polygon points and plot the given polygon after asking me how far can I see(depth) and the position and orientation of where I want to look. It is text formatted as follows:
  • Integer : Number of points
  • For Number of times:
    • Read Three Floating Point Numbers: These are one Point in 3D

  Example:

  4
  0 0 0
  0 5 0
  5 5 0
  5 0 0

You will be responsible for this project in groups of two people. You must comments all your code effectively so that I can follow what you are doing in them. You may write the code in XWindows or MSWindows 95/NT.

Handout(Word 97)

Handout(HTML)

Points: 200

Due Date: February 12, 1998.

Project III: Lighting, and Shading of a 3D model

Using Project two:

• Read from a file a list of polygons stored as the number of polygons, number of points for each polygon, and the points for each polygon.
• From another file, read a set of light positions and light colors.
• Shading, user can choose from:
  • Flat Shading
  • Interpolated
  • Gouraud Shading
• Z Buffer Algorithm
• Ambient Light
• Point Light source illumination and Light attenuation
• Diffuse Color illumination
• Specular reflection lighting and color

You will be responsible for this project in groups of two people. You must comments all your code effectively so that I can follow what you are doing in them. You may write the code in XWindows or MSWindows 95/NT.

Handout(Word 97)

Handout(HTML)

Points:200

Due Date: March 5, 1998.

Final Project: Game

You final project is to design a game. It must have the following:

• Maps using the database format from class
• Use Z Buffer algorithm and choose among the various shading methods in Project III.
• Include Lighting models from project III.
• Texture map support with lighting models.
• Provide for camera movement and change of orientation using the keyboard and/or mouse.
• Must consist of at least ONE room of objects.
• Must run in real time.

You will be responsible for this project in groups of two up to five people. You must comments all your code effectively so that I can follow what you are doing in them. You may write the code in XWindows or MSWindows 95/NT.

Handout(Word 97)

Handout(HTML)

Points: 400

Due Date: April 28, 1998.

Written By: James Money
Date: December 17, 1997