Graphics Hall of Fame

These pictures have been generated by students in the different graphics courses that I have taught, as part of regular assignments. In all these assignments students were encouraged to be creative in modeling 3D scenes.

The animations shown here have been produced by students' programs, often developed incrementally over a span of 2-3 programming assignments. All aspects of the animation, such as designing and modeling the 3D scene, keyboard and mouse interactivity and the actual animation have been implemented by the students, starting from scratch and without the aid of other software. Some of these projects were individually completed, while others were done in pairs.

Many of the images are generated by a process known as ray tracing. In this method of graphical rendering, a large number of rays are incident from the virtual camera out into a modeled 3D scene and interactions are studied to compute their appearance. A ray tracer can be written to simulate different physics phenomena such as reflections, refraction, shadows, and much more. Writing a ray tracer is generally considered a challenging programming project especially at the undergraduate level. All the ray traced images shown here were generated directly by students' programs, which they wrote in pairs (unless noted otherwise) in 3-4 weeks.

Note: The students own the rights to these images. Please contact me to request the right to use these images and programs, and I will forward your request to the respective students.