Computer Graphics course (CS 636)

Term Project Assignment Topics

1. General surface modeling using

  1. NURBS

    2.
  2. B-reps

    3.
  3. Octrees

    4.
  4. Point Clouds

    5.

2. Rendering using Radiosity 

3. Face modeling

  1. Gesture Modeling

    2.
  2. Visual Speech Modeling

    3.
  3. Emotion Modeling

    4.

4. Soft object modeling ( Deformable structures/ Cloths )

  1. Physical Models

    2.
  2. Non-Physical Models

    3.

5. Texture synthesis

  1. Perlin Noise

    2.
  2. Fractals

    3.

6. Image based rendering in 3D

  1. Rendering a polygon with a texture bitmap:

  2. Bitmap much smaller than polygon

  3. Tile or a set of adjacent polygons in 3-D and do wrap around with the texture

7. Lightfield rendering 

8. Texture bump mapping

  1. Create a combination of bump maps and procedural texture synthesis

 9. Fire, water modeling 

  1. Fire Model using Point Clouds
    2.  
  2. Water Flow Modeling
    3.  

10. BRDF- Acquisition and representation (see CURET web-page)

 11. Incident analysis

 12. Augmented Reality

  1. Overlap video, image and text (recorded speech) using openGL - first step in augmented reality

 13. Surface fitting and rendering from sparse depth maps with arbitrary view and illumination. 

 14. Keyframe Animation 

 15. Interactive Modeling 

 16. Points, clouds, procedural textures/noise 

17. War games in 3-D - create small characters/actors and let them shoot each other in a 3-D forest environment

18. Aircraft fighters - One/Two vs. Many

19. 3-D terrain navigation with variable load - views of vehicle and driver simultaneously