CS Dept Projects - Arunan Rabindran

Arunan Rabindran, Graduate Student, CS Dept. ,University of Illinois at Chicago

FALL 2005

CS 528 - Virtual Reality - Dr.Andy Johnson - http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/

Class Website: http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/528/index.html

Project 1 - VR Museum - Theme - Carmen Sandiego

Project 2- VR Museum Exhibit - Theme - An immersive environment in a cricket museum which allows the user to take a player's role

Paper Presentation - Immersive Authoring of Tangible Augmented Reality applications

Gun A. Lee
Gerard Jounghyun Kim
Virtual Reality Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology

Claudia Nelles
Mark Billinghurst
Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand, University of Canterbury

download PDF file

Final Exam: Lotsa Fun Arcade Game Company - A collaborative VR environment for a fantasy game world. Question: Read here <<

CS 523 - Multimedia Design -Dr.Tom Moher - http://www.evl.uic.edu/moher/

Design Project - Scientific learning environment for kids from 5-8 grade to make them understand weather patterns better.

Read the final paper of the design here.

CS 426 - Multimedia Computing a.k.a Video Game Design and Programming. - Dr.Jason Leigh - http://www.evl.uic.edu/spiff

Class Website: http://www.evl.uic.edu/spiff/class/cs426

Game Project Website: TONFUN GAMES -- link coming soon

SPRING 2006

CS 594 - GPU Programming (Special Topics) - Dr.Andy Johnson - http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/

Class Website: http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/594/index.html

Project 1: Procedural Brick Shader

Final Exam: Billboard with fancy lights tutorial

CS 422 - User Interface Design - Dr.Andy Johnson - http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/

Class Website: http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/422/index.html

Project 1: iConditioner - A touch screen interface for a computer controlled thermostat

Project 2: User Interface for CTA train stations

FALL 2006

CS 527 - Computer Animation - Dr.Andy Johnson - http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/

Class Website: http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/527/index.html

Project 1: Anim8or - Simple Animation Project

Paper Presentation 1: Debevac, P. (2006). Virtual Cinematography: Relighting through Computation. IEEE Computer Magazine 39(8), 57-64.

This paper presents a method to virtually control the illumination in a recorded scene with real actors using basis light positions and solving reflectance equations based on Plenoptic functions on 7 Dimensions (azimuth, inclination, wavelength, time of the incident ray of light in question & 3D position in which the light is beign sensed). Two examples of relighting a actor’s performance & relighting a large environment are also discussed. Future work might involve collecting more accurate reflectance data and analyzing it in various interesting ways.

Project 2: Alphaboids avec Mechanical Widgets

Project 3: Green worm with no name dancing to Thriller

Questions & Answers

Final Exam: Critique of Episode "Syrtis Major" in the New Captain Scarlet TV Series

HTML PDF

CS 488 - Computer Graphics I - Dr.Luc Renambot - http://www.evl.uic.edu/luc/

Class Website: http://www.evl.uic.edu/luc/488/index.html