Final Project Score Sheet -- Spring 2009

This score sheet is intended to give you a rough idea of how much work you need to do to get a good grade on the final project. We have tried to list categories of problems that you might want to tackle in your project. Then for each category we tried to rank what we feel are reasonable solutions to those problems. You do not have to score points from every category to get a good grade. The best final projects will probably be of the form where you have excelled in one or two categories and also done some effort in the other categories to make a cohesive scene.
The key of course is to have a well integrated scene with one clear technical focus.

The following is our estimated grading table. The points on the left are intended to be a rough guide line to you as to what we are looking for. We will not necessarily be grading your project in such a mathematical way. Instead the project as a whole will be given a grade.

• Category Max Points - you can only score up to the max points per category, which means you need to do work in several different areas, (and you may well do some work in all areas).
• Item Suggested Points - this is what we feel a good amount of work is worth on average. Your actual rating could be less or more depending on complexity
• User Interface - having a natural, easy-to-use interface can be worth 5-10 extra brownie points. Keyboard and mouse controls which give the user direct control over the camera or steering an object around would fall under this category.
• Aesthetics - nice choices of surface properties, lighting, and texture maps could be worth 5-10 points extra.