CS 805 Advanced Computer Graphics
Spring 2000
Project 2 -- Enhanced Ray Tracer

Overview

For this assignment, you will add features to the ray tracer you wrote for Assignment 1.

Due Date

Project writeup and source: 4/6/2000

Description

Choose at least one enhancement from each category:

• Sampling Techniques
  • Advanced Objects and Textures
    • cylinders (including image mapping)
    • cones (including image mapping)
    • bump maps (for spheres, planes, and polygons)
  • Sampling Techniques
    • adaptive supersampling for antialiasing
    • jitter for antialiasing
    • depth of field
    • soft shadows
    • gloss
  • Acceleration Techniques
    • bounding boxes
    • uniform spatial subdivision
    • non-uniform spatial subdivision

Testing

You will be required to test your ray tracer with scene description files of your choice. You must submist these files along with the images they produce for verification.

Submission Requirements

``Professional-quality'' brief writeup, including:

1. Cover page containing: Course Id--Section No.
   Name:
   SS No:
   Assignment No.
   
2. Assignment description
3. Program features
4. Any interesting problems you ran into and how you resolved them
5. User's guide

Electronic submission of source code: provide a self-contained, compressed .tar file (preferrably gzipped), complete with a Makefile and README specifying compilation requirements.

In-class demonstartion of program will be required.