Computer Graphics                                           CS418 Final Project
CS417/CS418 Fall 1998                                Due Thursday, May 13, 1999

########################### The CS418 Final Project ###########################

Implement the following:

+ ray-tracing: both reflection and transmission, including refraction

+ spheres (this is basically already done!)

+ "interesting" polygon meshes: it suffices to do surfaces of revolution
  (e.g. MYSPHERE, TORUS, and SWEEP)

+ an "interesting" scene to render: this is up to you, but should include
  a number of spheres and polygon meshes and should show off your
  implementation.

+ optimizations for speed

+ perspective projection: Tview, view distance, view angle, resolution

Bonuses:

    anything extra, e.g. bump mapping, texture mapping, interpolating
    normals, generating movies, fancier meshes, fancier objects,
    anti-aliasing, etc.

Hints:

+ represent a polygon mesh much like the way Matlab does for its SURF
  command -- the "implicit" representation mentioned numerous times in lecture

+ use cells to store a list of imhomogenous data, e.g. to store arrays of
  different sizes.  cells are like arrays/matrices, except that you use
  braces {} instead of parentheses ().  NOTE: matlab will still let you
  use parentheses on cells, which usually will give you the wrong thing.

+ use global variables (see HELP GLOBAL in matlab) to avoid passing
  around lots of constant data.

+ fully/partially "fancy" item and light buffers should speed up
  testing for first hits and shadows.

+ bounding extents (e.g. spheres) will speed things up (including item bufers)

What to hand in:

+ E-mail everything to pfb1@cornell.edu by midnight, Thursday, May 13.
  Send all files as attachments to a single message.

+ Include all your code and also a script that runs your code on your scene.

ROUGHLY how you will be graded (primarily from just looking at output):

+ 10 pts poly reflection
+ 10 pts poly transmission
+ 10 pts spheres still work
+ 10 pts perspective
+ 10 pts speed
+ 10 pts rendered scene (output)
+ 10 pts script for running code to produce scene
+ 10 pts code doesn't annoy us