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Branches and Roots: Project Selection in Graphics Courses for Fourth Year Computer Science Undergraduates

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Computer graphics courses for computer science undergraduates typically involve a series of programming projects. It is a difficult problem to design a set of projects which balance establishment of roots in foundational graphics with exploration of current branches. We posit projects involving rasterizing a triangle with interpolated vertex colors, ray tracing and inverse kinematics solvers as best practices in project design for graphics courses for fourth year computer science undergraduates. We also discuss projects involving tool usage (rather than tool creation) and implementing a full viewing pipeline as worst practices. These best and worst practices are based on three years of project design in one course and survey of projects in similar courses at other universities.

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  1. Brigham Young U. Computer Science, USA

    M. D. Jones

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  1. University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

    Song Wang

  6. HRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, 90265-4797, Malibu, CA, USA

    Kim Kyungnam

  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907-2021, IN, USA

    Bedrich Benes

  8. Sandia National Laboratory, 87185, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Kenneth Moreland

  9. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 70504, LA, USA

    Christoph Borst

  10. Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Stephen DiVerdi

  11. Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Chiang Yi-Jen

  12. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94551-0808, Livermore, CA, USA

    Jiang Ming

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Jones, M.D. (2011). Branches and Roots: Project Selection in Graphics Courses for Fourth Year Computer Science Undergraduates. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24031-7_25

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