Course Project Proposals

Computer Graphics, Fall 2001

Final Projects

Final Written Reports (due at 12 noon on Thursday, 24 January 2002):

Each team of students should submit a webpage with detailed writeup of the project; The write up should contain descriptions of the goals and execution of your project. You should include a review of related work. You should write detailed descriptions of the approach you've chosen, the implementation hurdles you've encountered, the features you've implemented, and any results you've generated. Please do not be vague in your written descriptions. Following is a brief outline you might follow ...

Introduction

Goal

What did we try to do?
Who would benefit?

Previous Work

What related work have other people done?
When do previous approaches fail/succeed?

Approach

What approach did we try?
Under what circumstances do we think it should work well?
Why do we think it should work well under those circumstances?

Methodology

What pieces had to be implemented to execute my approach?
For each piece ...

Were there several possible implementations?
If there were several possibilities, what were the advantages/disadvantages of each?
Which implementation(s) did we do? Why?
What did we implement? <== Include detailed descriptions
What didn't we implement? Why not?

Results

How did we measure success?
What experiments did we execute?
Provide quantitative results.
What do my results indicate?

Discussion

Overall, is the approach we took promising?
What different approach or variant of this approach is better?
What follow-up work should be done next?
What did we learn by doing this project?

Conclusion

Demo Day (12:00 - 2:00 Thursday 24 January 2002 in CS105):

Each team of students will give a short presentation describing his/her class project. Your goal should be to demonstrate and describe for the class in 10-15 minutes what you have done and why it is interesting. In addition to running a live demo on one of the computers , you should describe the guts of your project, using 4-8 slides (condensed version of the webpage may work well here). The slides should clearly present the goals, challenges, previous work, approach, implementation, and results of your project.