CMP 161/L
Visualization and Computer Animation

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Winter 2011
MWF 9:30-10:40AM
Physical Sciences 114

Latest Information:

• Mar 18: All the scores have now been entered. You can click on the TOTAL link to see the class distribution. The final projects web page is also live now.
• Mar 18: Prog4 is posted. I can't complete the grading of the course because i'm waiting for missing parts from 4 people -- if you bump into them, ask them to check their email: allison, therese, verna, and hosh.
• Mar 15: For final project presentation, make sure that (1) you do your online submission *before* noon on 3/17; and (2) plan on 5 minutes presentation for your project -- should cover who you are, what the project is about, and highlights about the project. Remeber, we're running a peer-reviewed contest as well.
• Mar 14: Midterm 2 has been graded and posted. Stats are available through the online grade form.
• Mar 12: Looks like you may need a calculator for the midterm..
• Mar 11: Yes, we are running a peer-judged contest of your final projects. Winners will have the honor immortalized on the class url, and get some token prizes as well.
• Mar 9: If you know blender and would like to be a reader/tutor next quarter, you can either contact me and/or prof. whitehead(ejw). Here's a link to the class .
• Mar 9: Final projects are due Thursday March 17th at noon. Please submit your final project before coming to class
• Mar 8: There's a forum post regarding midterm reviews
• Mar 7: The stats for the graded materials so far is now available through the online grade link. Click on TOTAL to see where you stand wrt the class.
• Mar 5: Prog3 has been graded. The stats include a few -1 grades. If you're one of them, be sure to contact the grader to have your prog3 graded.
• Mar 4: There's only 16 submissions of your project status presentation so far. I will be closing the submission by midnight tonight. Points will be deducted if you don't submit by then.
• Feb 28: Submit your project update using: submit cmps161-ap.w11 update file
• Feb 21: Prog2 has been graded. If your grade is -1, it means you need to contact the grader to have your program graded.

  Grading rubric:
  Interactive Vector Field Creation (15),
  White Noise Image (5),
  LIC Visualization (30),
  Artistic LIC (20),
  Artistic Brushing (10),
  Documentation/Efficiency (20)
  

• Feb 15: Alan (your tutor) will be in charge of tomorrow's lab.
• Feb 14: Prog3 is now available.
• Feb 11: Survey on budget impact on class availability.
• Feb 9: Mid1 has been graded.
• Feb 2: Prog1 has been graded.
• Feb 1: Starting Wednesday 2/2, attendance will be taking in lab. Lab attendance from here on out wil be mandatory. To reiterate, we only have a partial TA for this class. Lourdes has to split her time between 2 classes, and will not have time to answer the same question over and over again by email if you don't show up to the labs.
• Jan 31: Reminder that the final project proposals are due this Friday (2/4). See the project guidelines below for more info.
• Jan 31: Lab section for today is cancelled, TA sick.
• Jan 28: Prog2 is now live.
• Jan 21: Prog0 is now completely graded. Prog0 stats has been updated as well.

  Here's a short compilation of the better ideas from students who already have an approved project. Also, consider pairing up for your final project.

• Jan 20: I've been processing your prelim proposals and recording them in the order that I've received them. See: approved list so far. One thing which I failed to mention before is that projects are rated according to difficulty level: easy, medium, difficulty. A properly completed and documented medium project gets 100%, easy gets 80%, and difficult gets 120%. The difficulty level is adjusted depending on whether the project is an individual or a pair project.

  Note that unless your selected topic is listed under the Topic (2nd) column, your prelim proposal ideas are up for grab by others. There are a few overlaps already e.g. sound/audio visualizers; and particle systems. Note that particle systems by themselves are not acceptable as final projects (too easy). If you want to do something with particle systems, it must be in conjunction with something else and/or it's modified in some interesting way. There are also a few other proposals which I've turned down primarily because there is not much visualization/animation content.

  For those who do have an approved final project, you'll notice that the link of your topic does not point anywhere yet. That's where the next project related deadline comes in -- final project proposal. See last year's final project proposals for examples, and this year's guidelines.

• Jan 14: Google info-session on new Mobile Android developments next week! All students are welcome to attend this tech talk Wednesday, January 19 5:00-6:30pm at the Simularium, Engineering 2 room 185. Contact aanders@ucsc.edu for more information.
• Jan 7: Heres the link to Dangers of Glitziness video.
• Jan 6: Just added a link to a picking tutorial in our Links to on-line help page.
• Nov 16: For those trying to enroll in the class, just come by the 1st day of class and we'll see what we can do. No guarantees, but we'll try to accommodate those with the right prereqs, especially if you're a senior.
• Welcome to CMPS 161/L. Bookmark this page. It is your responsibility to check this page at least once a week for class announcements, etc.
• Old news

Course Information:

• Course Overview
• Course Schedule
• Links to on-line help
• Links to other visualization and animation works

• OnLine Grade Information
• Discussion Forum

Programming Assignments:

• Program 0, due 1/14/2011, midnight
• Program 1, due 1/28/2011, midnight
• Program 2, due 2/11/2011, midnight
• Program 3, due 2/25/2011, midnight
• Program 4, due 3/11/2011, midnight

Practice Exams:

• Visualization (mostly)
• Animation (mostly) and Winter 07

Exams:

• 1st exam is scheduled for 2/7/2011, Monday
• 2nd exam is scheduled for 3/14/2011, Monday

Final Projects:

• General Information for Final Projects
• Approved Projects
• Projects Page: Winter 2011
• Projects Page: Winter 2010
• Projects Page: Winter 2009
• Projects Page: Winter 2008
• Projects Page: Winter 2007
• Projects Page: Winter 2006
• Projects Page: Winter 2005
• Projects Page: Winter 2004
• Projects Page: Winter 2003
• Projects Page: Winter 2002

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