Spring 2009
22C:251 Visualization
Final Project
Due: Prior to Presentation During Scheduled Final Exam
(We may reschedule this presentation, currently scheduled Monday, May 11th at 7:30am)
Goal: Investigate a larger visualization problem than those explored in the assignments.
The main goal of this project is just to have you do some interesting visualization. Numerous possiblilites exist for
this project:
•An implementation one of the classical visualization techniques, such as those that exist in VTK (e.g., marching
cubes, direct volume rendering). These projects will require a little additional exploration, such as asking “how
can this be sped up?” or completing a fully robust implementation.
•An implementation of one of the more complex techniques described in class, either from scratch or by extend-
ing VTK (e.g. implementing line integral convolution, multi-dimensional transfer functions for direct volume
rendering)
•An application of visualization techniques discussed in class to a problem in your current research.
•An implementation of a visualization research technique, such as those published in: IEEE Visualization,IEEE
Information Visualization,IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics,Eurographics Sympo-
sium on Visualization, or ACM SIGGRAPH. This requires some reading (or skimming) of research papers on
your part to identify interesting work, and we should discuss your project prior starting work.
•Implement two small, but similar, techniques and compare their effectiveness (e.g., “how do static textures
compare to various types of dynamic texturing techniques in conveying 3D shape?”)
•Find a significant dataset and explore how to visualize it efficiently. (This is roughly equivalent to the “apply
visualization to your research” category, for those without a research topic.) This may not require significant
implementation, but would require a sizable dataset and much experimentation for how to best explore and
display the data.
On or before Wednesday, April 8th, I would like a 1
2to 1 page project proposal (via e-mail) which includes:
1. Title. The topic of your project
2. Motivation. One paragraph on why this topic is interesting for you.
3. Sources. List one or two papers or books that you plan to use as resources.
4. Timeline. A list of milestones for what you need to do, with target completion dates. This need not be exact,
and the main goal is so you think over in advance what you need to do to avoid putting off your project until
May 10th.
During the scheduled final exam period, everyone in the class will need to give a roughly 5 minute talk about their
project. This should include either a couple PowerPoint slides, a walkthrough your project’s webpage (in lieu of
PowerPoint slides), or a demonstration of your program. Basically, I want you to describe what you did, why you did
it, and how well (or poorly) the results turned out.
Please remember this project represents 30% of your grade and budget your time accordingly. If you visit my office
to discuss your progress along the way, everyone benefits. I see what you are doing; I can help you and correct you if
you are doing too much or too little; and you get a feeling for what your grade might be before the end of the semester.
