CS 457/557 -- Winter Quarter 2024

Shaders Final Project

100 Points

Due: Tuesday, March 19, 23:59:59, no Bonus Days

This page was last updated: January 8, 2024

Requirements:

• The goal of this assignment is to give you a chance to apply all that you have learned to a project of your own choosing.
  
  1. It must involve GLSL shaders.
  2. It must be worth 100 points.
  3. It must be do-able in ~1 week.
  4. It can be run as a script (glman) or as a program (C, C++, OpenGL).
  5. It can be based on other work that you have seen, but it must be your own implementation and code.
  6. It must be adequately explained in your write-up and video.

• The intent of this project is to do something different from what you have done before. Stringing together ellipses, noise, displacement-mapping, bump-mapping, and cube-mapping using the code you already have is not acceptable. You must learn something new by doing your Final Project.

• Before your project becomes "official", I need to approve a one-page paper proposal from you, due by 23:59:59 on Wednesday, February 21.
  What you propose must be worth 100 points.
  What you propose must be do-able in ~1 week.
  Turning your proposal in on time is worth 10 of the 100 points for the Final Project.

Examples from Previous Years

I have many of the final project reports from previous years in my office. I will show them to you in one of the classes.

The Turn-In Process:

1. Your electronic turnin will be done at http://teach.engr.oregonstate.edu and will consist of:
   
   1. All source files (.c, .cpp, .glib, .vert, .frag, .geom) You can zip all the non-PDF source files together if you want.
   2. A PDF report with
      • A title, your name, your email address
      • A copy of your accepted proposal
      • A description of what you did
      • Nice screen shots from your program
      • The link to the Kaltura video or Loon or YouTube video demonstrating that your project does what you said it would do.
      • If your final result is different from what you proposed, explain how it is different and why.
   3. Narrate your video, if possible, so that you can tell me what it is doing.
   4. Be sure your video's protection is set to Unlisted.
   5. Do not put your PDF into your zip file. Leave it out separately so my collect-all-the-PDFs script can find it.

   Submissions are due at 23:59:59 on the given due date.
   Note: Bonus Days cannot be used on this project. Sorry. I've already made the due date as late as I can.