CS-599 Physically Based Modeling for Interactive Simulation and Games, Spring 2011
Project Proposal

Before you write up your proposal, please discuss it with Prof. Barbic. Be sure to sign up for an appointment between 3:30pm and 5:30pm on Monday, Feb 14th to meet with Prof. Barbic in his office (SAL 230). The TA will send a group email with instructions.

The project can be done in a group of two or three students. Your project proposal should be roughly two pages long, and should include the following information:

Your Info:
Name and email address of all the group members. Groups should contain either one or two people. The default size is one. If you would like to form a group of two, please check with the instructor first to make sure that the scope of your project is sufficiently large to warrant two people.
Project Description:
Briefly describe the goal of your project. What metrics will be used to evaluate its success?
Logistics:
Please address each of the following issues regarding how you will carry out your project:
Plan of Attack and Schedule:
How will you go about completing your project? Please include a week-by-week schedule of exactly who in your group will be doing what. You will not be strictly held to this schedule (other than meeting your milestone, as described below), but it is important that you have a concrete and realistic plan. Identify what you expect to be the critical path in your schedule.
Progress Report and Milestone:
Indicate what you plan to accomplish by the project report date. On that date, you will submit a brief report describing your progress up to that point. On the project milestone date, each team will demo their current results to the instructor in his office. Your ability to set a reasonable milestone and to meet this goal will be factored into your final project grade.
Plan B:
Is your project an all-or-nothing effort, or is there a possibility to deliver partial results ? It is not advisable to undertake projects where incremental results are difficult or impossible to achieve.
Literature Search:
What papers and other background materials have you collected so far to help you in your study? Are you missing anything?
Resources Needed:
What software will you need to conduct your study? Do you have a copy of this software already? (If not, how will you get it?) What hardware or machines will you need to run this software? Do you have all of the resources that you need to conduct this project?
Getting Started:
What work have you done so far on this project (other than writing up this proposal)? Do you have any questions or other constraints that are preventing you from gettings started immediately?

Please hand in a hardcopy version of your proposal on the due date in class.

List of potential project topics:

Surface meshes (obj file format):

Volumetric tetrahedral meshes (use the "VolumetricMesh" class to load them):

More meshes:

Example large sparse matrices.

Jernej Barbic