Scientific Visualization Project

Your scientific visualization project can be (1) from simulation and/or experimental data you have or (2) development of new software tools or extending existing software tools. It is your responsibility to pitch your project at the appropriate level. Challenge, but do not exhaust, yourself. Please ensure that even if you underestimate the difficulty of your project, you will have something to hand in by the due date (choosing too difficult a project is not a valid reason for an incomplete).

You will work together with 2-3 classmates.

Due dates

Project team creation and Proposal due March 1st, 11:59pm

Project progress report due April 16th, 11:59pm

Final project write up is due May 2nd, 11:59pm

By March 1st, 11:59pm, you should create your 2-3 person project teams and submit your project proposal on canvas. This should be a well thought out, well-written 2-3 page description of your proposed project. It should outline any necessary background, specifically what goals you plan on accomplishing, and what you will need to do in order to accomplish your goals. You will also need to include what software/hardware you plan to use, and what you intend to hand in (i.e. what are the “deliverables”?). See below for details about the project proposal.

On April 16th, 11:59pm your project progress report is due. This report should contain a description of how much of your project is completed at this point and what still remains to be done. This is the time to make modifications (which you must justify) and present a timeline for completion of the project. See below for details about the project progress report.

On May 2nd, 11:59pm your final project report is due. See below for details on writing your final project. In grading the projects, we will be looking for a well-designed, substantial, interesting project. Furthermore, your implementation, content and style of the final results should be of high quality. A final criteria for grading is that the progress report and final report are handed in on time.

Project Proposal

Please hand in your Project Proposal by March 1st, 11:59pm (or sooner). It should contain the following information.

  • Team Member Names: Project title:
  • Give an overview of the project.
  • Why is this project important and/or interesting?
  • What are the objectives of the project? What are the questions you want to answer?
  • What would you like to learn by completing this project?
  • What data will you be using for your project?
  • If you are doing a programming project, list the hardware and software you will be using.
  • What is your project schedule? What will you do to complete this project? Be as specific as possible.
  • When the project is completed, what are the metrics to be used to evaluate how successful your project is?
  • What are the expected outcomes of your proposed project? What do you plan to hand in? (e.g. source code, video demo, etc.)
  • Any other useful information.

Project Progress Report

Please hand in your Project Progress Report by April 16th, 11:59pm or sooner. It should contain the following information. Student Name(s): Project title:

  • Estimate the percentage of the overall project you have completed thus far.
  • What have you completed?
  • Create a list of what still needs to be done on the project and estimate the effort each item will take to complete.
  • Have you had to make any changes in your project description? If so, please list and justify the changes.
  • Any additional information.

Project Final Report

You will be required to hand in your Project Final Report on May 2nd, 11:59pm. Your final report should contain the following information. team Names: Project title:

  • Overview and goals of your project.
  • Background and related work. What books, papers and websites did you learn from?
  • Provide a description of your project. What data did you use? What questions did you answer? Describe any new questions that arose throughout the project.
  • Discuss the implementation details of your project.
  • Outline what you learned from doing this project.
  • If you have not accomplished all the goals of your project, or if you have exceeded them, describe how the finished project differs form the description in your project design.
  • Describe how you distributed the work among the members of your team
  • Evaluate your project: how successful do you think it was? What are the strengths and weaknesses of your project?
  • Provide additional comments useful in evaluating your project.

Due to the current COVID-19 situation we will not be able to meet for a final presentation. Hence, in addition to the report you are required to submit also:

  • a set of slides
  • project material (e.g., code, data) which could allow to reproduce your work
  • a video presentation of your project (with narration)
  • any additional material (e.g., website)