CMP 261 -- Final Project Guidelines

Important Dates:

• Sep 30, 2021 -- Interesting Vis Website (5%)
• Fridays -- Paper critique/presentation (10%)
• Oct 08, 2021 -- Prelim project proposal (5%)
• Oct 15, 2021 -- Final project proposal & first draft (10%)
• week of Nov 01, 2021 -- Project checkpoints (20%)
• week of Nov 29, 2021 -- Final project presentation (50%)
• Dec 05, 2021, NOON -- All materials (paper, presenation slides, web pages, etc.) due

Final Project:

This is an individual project meant to be developed and completed over the course of the quarter -- realistically about 5-6 weeks level of effort. You get to decide what project you want to do -- after I review it for scope and content. For projects with larger scope, a 2-person project is possible. The main considerations are that:

• there's sufficient visualization content in it,
• it's a reasonable size project that can be completed within the given time,
• there's enough variation from other students' project.

Interesting Vis Website: Due Sep 30, 2021

This is your first assignment with the goal of getting you started to think about possible project, if you don't already have one in mind. In either case, find and share (present) the website that contains visualization(s) that you find interesting. Simply send me an email, by NOON of Sep 30, 2021 so that I can add it to our list of interesting visualizations for presentation on Oct 01, 2021. Include a title and short description.

Preliminary Project Proposal(s): Due Oct 8, 2021

If you haven't communicated with me about what project you'll be working on, please do so as soon as possible. Best is you describe your project idea(s) to me, then follow up with an email confirmation. If you prefer email, please describe 3 projects ranked according to your preference. Please provide sufficient info so that I have a sense of what your project will entail. Also include a title for each proposed project(s). We will have iterate on those via email or in person. Do this on or before Oct 15, 2021.

Final Project Proposal and First Draft of your Report: Due Oct 15, 2021

This forms the first draft of your final project report written in the form of a technical paper. It should include the following items, though the contents does not have to be very polished at this point.

• title
• abstract
• motivation
• related work
• proposed research directions

The proposal is a writeup on the order of 2-4 pages of technical materials that covers the items listed above. Use a paper template for a potential journal / conference that you can submit your work to. For example, assume a paper submission to IEEE TVCG which is roughly similar in page length as a conference submission. Please submit this as a pdf file. You can use overleaf.com to create your latex document. It will then compile it for you as a pdf document which you can download and submit. Name this pdf file with your 1st initial followed by last name, then proposal.pdf.

For example, I would name mine apang.proposal.pdf

Project Checkpoint: Due Oct 31, 2021

Presentations will start on Nov 1, but I'll need your materials the day before so that we can set up the links.

I am expecting two items from each of you: (a) an updated paper writeup with a more complete related work section, a more fleshed out research approach section with prelim results, analysis, and visualizations (probably 4-6 pages of technical writeup at this point); and (b) presentation materials (ppt, pdf, doc) for your project update.

How to Submit:

Name your updated report as: first initial, last name, report.pdf.
E.g. mine would be apang.report.pdf

Name your presentation material as: first initial, last name, checkpoint.
E.g. apang.checkpoint.ppt

Put these 2 items in a folder named: first initial, last name and email the zipped folder to me.

Final Project Requirements: Due Nov 28, 2021

• Project Demonstration/Presentation: Week of Nov 29, 2021 Each student will have to present their final project to the class. Try to limit this to around 15-20 minutes (depends on class size). Be sure to allow your window to be resized to the entire screen so everyone can see your output.
• Project Report. There are 2 parts to the project report: (a) a web page, and (b) an 8-page technical paper reporting the results of your research project. The web page should serve as an online record of your class project and should contain the following information.
  • your name, which class and quarter,
  • title, abstract/description of your project,
  • images and/or video clips of your project (links to you-tube are NOT acceptable; watch your file size and know your disk quota -- usually 2 gb),
  • a user's guide,
  • link to your source code and executable.
  • link to your technical paper.

  Note that all links should be relative (not absolute paths), and that you should submit the web page (index.html) and all necessary image and animation files in the same directory. This time, name that directory final. Everything must be contained inside this directory. No links to external sites allowed. Please use all UCSC addresses. Create a zip file of all the items of this directory for submission.

• What and How to Submit: Create a zip file of your final project folder or directory. Name this final.zip.

  Your final project folder should have:

  • technical paper (pdf) and index.html, if needed additional files,
  • README file for information on platform, compilation, etc.,
  • at least two favorite images of your project -- name these: pic1.jpg and pic2.jpg -- even if they're in some other format. I need this for creating the final project webpage e.g. last year's project page
  • optionally, a short movie clip of your program in action , say about 5-10 seconds. Watch the file size and keep it reasonable. Save movies as mpeg, wmv, or other popular video format.
  • folder containing: source code, makefile, etc. to compile your code,
  • folder containing: any sample data sets, if any,

  On unix.ic.ucsc.edu, do:
  submit cse261-ap.f21 project final.zip

  You can submit more than once. In fact, try this before the deadline to make sure it's working. You can submit more than once.

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