Assignments » PA6: Final project

Submitting your proposal

You are submitting with a partner. Use the People tab in Canvas to join a group with your partner. You will then submit a URL to one of your repo's commits just like in previous assignments (see the Submitting on Canvas section of Getting started guide). You are welcome to both duplicate the report in your own repos if you like, but you will submit the URL for just one of them as a team.

Features & point breakdown

16 pts

In your renderer you are required to implement a minimum set of features that will be showcased in your report for grading. Features/Functionality are split into 3 categories: simple, moderate and advanced. Your task is to submit in your report any combination of the following types of features that sums up to 16 points. The only restriction is that you must implement at least 1 advanced feature.

• Simple features can get up to a maximum of 1 points each (e.g. depth of field) 
• Moderate features can get up to a maximum of 4 points each (e.g. environment map emitter with importance sampling, texturing and bump mapping, or anisotropic microfacet BRDF) 
• Advanced features can get up to a maximum of 8 points (e.g. photon mapping, participating media, or subsurface scattering) 

The above point breakdowns are just a rough guide. Its possible to e.g. implement a very sophisticated version of a simple algorithm and this would be worth more than a bare-bones version of the same method. Correctness and sufficient validation will highly impact the final grade. It is your job to convince us that your implementation is correct. For instance, an untested and buggy implementation of an advanced feature such as the beam radiance estimate may end up getting you less points than a very well tested, and sophisticated depth-of-field implementation. Each graded feature you point out in your report will be graded for completeness and correctness. In your report you should have:

• Feature-specific renderings showcasing a scene that emphasizes the feature's effect. 
• Technical details of the implementation.
• Validation tests performed and their results.
• Code coordinates for the bulk of the feature's implementation. 

We will not be giving out a list of approved features for each category, we leave this up to you. Graded features which you don't end up using in your final image must still include the above details for grading.

Presentation & Report

3 pts

The rendering competition will replace the final examination period on TBD.

We will quickly introduce the jury and then start with the presentations in random order. Each student will have up to (TBD) minutes of presentation followed by up to (TBD) minutes of questions by the jury. After the presentations the jury will deliberate and choose the winners. We will end the competition with the award ceremony!

Neatness and completeness of your oral presentation and your report will be graded.

Grading

Only code that you implemented will be graded. Code that was graded in previous assignments will not be considered for grading in the final project. Code that was not written during the class or not by the student(s) submitting the project will not be considered for grading and must be properly documented/credited.

What to submit

You will be submitting your report/presentation containing the info described above according to the instructions in the Submitting on Canvas section of Getting started guide.

Here are some tips for structuring your report.html:

• Include your motivational image and discuss its relation to the theme. Point out the interesting phenomena in the image.
• Structure the document in sections where in each section you describe a new feature of your renderer.
  • For every selected (graded) feature, include any feature-specific images you generated (if applicable). The image(s) must convince us that the functionality is implemented correctly and completely. You can follow the validation paradigm we used in the other assignments.
  • Include descriptions of encountered problems, a list of external libraries that you used, and other comments for each feature.
  • If you added any functionality that is not being submitted for grading, include a short section describing these.
• End with a section showcasing your final submitted image.