Final Project

Do something substantial and useful with and/or to AlloSystem. Here are some ideas:

• Make nontrivial content (artistic, scientific ...) in AlloSystem

• Improve the documentation (doxygen, comments, standalone text, examples...)

• Write a comparison of AlloCore with related multimedia software libraries (Open Frameworks, Cinder, Processing...)

• Add nontrivial new functionality to AlloSystem

  • Easy movie export for Vimeo/YouTube upload
  • Implement a phase vocoder given this implementation
  • Implement Spectrally Matched Click synthesis
  • Read Perceptually-based Color Assignment (2014) and implement that technique
  • Serialization (file saving)
  • Hollywood-like camera class (dolly, track, extreme close up…)
  • Reuseable spatial graphics element library
  • Efficient parallel implementations of certain useful algorithms for multicore
  • Incorporating MPI for parallel processing
  • Raytracing
  • etc...

• Port (some of) AlloCore to iOS, Objective C...

• AlloCore bindings to other programming languages

Ideally your final project will relate to a larger goal: research, composition, education, etc. We encourage team projects as long as each member has a worthy, well-defined individual contribution and the whole is not much less than the sum of its parts.

Part 1: Final project full proposal document (Due 2015.11.15 by noon)

Continue to think about what you would like to do for your final project in this class, and get started on it.

Turn in a text or Markdown file named hw4/final-project-proposal.md containing the following:

• Title (as long or short as you dare)
• 1/2 page abstract (about the project)
• 1/2 page bio (about you)
• List of things you need from us to execute your vision.

Also inside your hw4 directory push one or more "sketches" explaining your idea. These can be runnable code showing some aspect of your idea, a mockup done in an image program such as Photoshop or Illustrator, a soundfile, text files, or even scanned hand-drawn images, diagrams, etc., of how you intend your project to look/behave/sound/etc.

This proposal is still non-binding --- though you will be investing work into the sketches, their purpose is to help guide your thinking about possibilities and to provoke feedback from the instructors and your fellow students.

Part 2: Presentation of Final Project Proposal (Due 2015.12.11, 2pm)

Presentations do *not* have to be powerpoint or keynote or use "slides", but there should be images, sounds, and something for the class to read that carefullly explains your project.