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 snipets 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
• 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.

Your initial propsal, due in advance, should be a (word/text/rtf/html) document that must include

• The name or names of the students who will be participating
• A few paragraph description of your vision for the project
• An outline of any additional resources that might be needed for the project to be successful (data sets, imagery, audio)

For this resulting 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:
  • Names of both members of your partnership.
  • A brief summary of how each partner contributed to the work.
  • Clear citations to the sources of the raw data.
  • A User's Guide that explains what functionality is supported by your software and how a user is to interact.

Grading Standards

The assignment is worth 70 points. The first 10 of those points will be based on the promptness and quality of the required initial proposal.