Final Project

1. Specification:

Implement a 3D virtual reality environment that allows the user to walk through for exploration. (See Philip Hagelberg’s work here with screenshots 1 2 3 as an example.) You can add as many bells and whistles in your final project as you want, but the following are the basic requirements:

• Requirement 1: It must be a colorful and somewhat photo-realistic 3D environment. For example, your room, an area of the campus such as the bell tower or the fountain neighborhood, the computer science alcove, or other places of compatible complexity. There should be at least a score of objects in the scene (for example, desks, chairs, floors, walls, ceiling, lamps, books, bookshelves, windows, curtains, hills outside the windows, doors, closets, teapots, cups, vases, vessels,…)
• Requirement 2: You must have at least one light source in the environment, and set different material properties to the geometric objects to create variation of colors, shininess, and or other attributes..
• Requirement 3: You must apply texture mapping to some surfaces. For example, you may consider texture mapping used on the ground, the floor, the walls, the ceiling, the desks, and so forth.
• Requirement 4: You must provide some mechanism of automatic movement of the camera (for example, rotation of camera around a circle or a sphere while looking at the center of the environment) to provide an easy dynamic overview of the environment.
• Requirement 5: You must provide a convenient user interface (through mouse and/or keyboard operations) for the user to manually move around (i.e. change the location of the camera) and to look at the environment in flexible ways (for example be able to change the focus point they look at, to zoom in and room out by changing the perspective angle).

2. In-class Project Presentation: Wednesday, May 14

3. Final Project Report: Monday, May 26.

Email the following items to me

· the self-evaluation report

· the source code files for the final project, and

· snapshots of your scenes in compact image formats such as PNG, JPEG, and so forth. (For Windows, you can press shift+PrintScreen of your keyboard to capture a snapshot of the current window into the system clipboard, open a graphics edit program like Paint or Photoshop, paste the image into the program, and then save the image into a PNG or JPEG file.)