Contents:

• Collaboration Policy
• Overview
• Grading Standards
• Submitting Your Assignment

Collaboration Policy

For this assignment, you are allowed to work with one other student in developing a single piece of software to submit. If any student wishes to have a partner but has not been able to locate one, please let the instructor know so that we can match up partners.

It is vital that both students contribute to the development of the project. Please make sure you adhere to the policies on academic integrity in this regard.

Overview

Our final project will be very open-ended in design, as we wish to give you the opportunity to create something of your chosing. For that reason, there are very few guidelines in this project description. However, to help provide some contest, we offer the following comments:

1. The complexity of this project should be roughly at the same scale as the average of other projects from this semester. Most notably, we do not expect this to be a bigger-than-normal task, but it should be interesting enough to not be trivial (especially given the short amount of time that remains in the semester).

2. The project should be dynamic, with some form of user interaction that effects the visuals.

3. The source code must be 100% your own. While it is permissible to take some inspiration from other software you have seen in the wider community, you must not rely on any portions of pre-existing Processing code (other than perhaps snippets we have examined as part of this class).

Hopefully you will have some inspiration for project ideas. If not, feel free to consider any of the following:

• Recreate a classic arcade game
• Create an optical illusion in Processing, perhaps even unfolding the mechanism in some way to the user. (Examples: coolopticalillusions.com)
• (Interactive) Greeting Card
• Developing software that build a photo mosaic
• Make art that adjusts/reacts in some way to the user's mouse gestures (for example, spreading paint based on flicks of the mouse)
• ...

Submitting Your Assignment

Please see details regarding the submission process from the general programming web page, as well as a discussion of the late policy.

Alpha Version
A preliminary verison of your project (known as an "alpha") version must be submitted as project5 . You should essentially consider this to be a complete project, even if it does not yet meet your complete vision for the final project. The alpha must be submitted as a .pde file together with any necessary data files, and with a readme file, minimally including:

• The name or names of the contributing students, and how all members have contributed to the work
• A few paragraph description of your vision for the (final) project
• An explanation of what functionality is accomplished in the current version
• A brief overview of tasks that remain for the final version

Final Version
For the final project, we ask that you submit the following artifacts. If you prefer, you are welcome to create a single zip file of all materials and submit that zip file.

• The .pde file that contains the actual Processing source code you've written
• Any additional image or data files that will be needed in order to execute your program.
• A separate 'readme' text file, as outlined in the general webpage on programming projects. Of particular note for this project, your readme file must include:
  • The name or names of the contributing students, and how all members have contributed to the work
  • A summary of what improvements have been made since the alpha version.
  • A User's Guide that explains what functionality is supported by your software and how a user is to interact.

Grading Standards

This assignment will be graded in two phases:

• The alpha version ("project5 ") is worth 70 points. Those points will be apportioned based on the following general criteria:

  • (20 points) Vision given for the final project (reflecting both creativity and amibition)
  • (20 points) Achieved functionality thus far
  • (20 points) Quality of current code
  • (10 points) Clear explanation of current status in terms of what is accomplished and what remains

• The final version ("project6 ") is expected to be a polished product. It is worth 70 points, apportioned based on the following criteria:

  • (10 points) Overall functionality
  • (10 points) Polished presentation and appearance of the sketch
  • (10 points) Quality of user interactions
  • (10 points) Quality and style of source code
  • (20 points) Significance of progress since the alpha version
  • (5 points) Clear summary of what improvements have been made since the alpha version
  • (5 points) Quality of requested user's guide