Big Pixel Project
ECS 175
Big Pixel Project
Due 10 PM Wds April 19
Basic Assignment
This project is intended to introduce rasterization,
barycentric coordinates, and linear interpolation across triangles.
We will grade the project by trying it on some test inputs.
If your program does Steps 1 and 2, below, with no problems on
all our test inputs, that will be a B. If you also do Step 3, that
will be an A.
Here are some C functions which implement a software framebuffer, consisting
of a 50x50 array of pixels. To make the pixels easy to see, they are
drawn as little squares (or "big pixels").
To color a pixel, you should call the function
colorPixel.
bigPix.c
lowlevel.c
lowlevel.h
Makefile
The code includes a function readInput which can be used
to read in triangle vertices from the standard input. To read
the file input (in Unix), call the program like this
bigPix < input
Please ignore the comment before the readInput function
that says "Change this function to read input from a file". I have deleted
it.
Step 1 - Draw triangles
The basic project is to use the
colorPixel function to draw a rasterized version
of any triangle.
Your output images
should consist entirely of big pixels, drawn by calling
colorPixel.
You can use the outline for triangle drawing in Section 3.6 in the book;
barycentric coordinates are covered in Section 2.11, and we used the 2D
geometry in Section 2.5.2.
The file input1
contains an example of two triangles you ought to be able
to display. We will also test it on other triangles, so make up some
test inputs of your own and check that it works. What are the difficult
"corner cases"?
Step 2 - Interpolate colors
Add RGB colors to the vertices in the input file, read them in,
and change your code to interpolate the colors across the triangles,
using barycentric coordinates.
The file input2
contains an example of a colored triangl you should
be able to display.
Step 3 - Texture mapping
Keeping your current color-interolating program, make a new copy
bigPixTex which does texture mapping instead of
color interpolation. This way we can check both versions.
Change your program bigPixTex
to read in an image (you can use the code from last
time) and then implement texture mapping.
The texture coordinates (s,t) should go from 0.0-1.0, no matter what the
size of the image is.
So our texture mapping test files will look like
input3.
Your texture-mapped polygons will be so
pixelated (because of the big pixels) as to be completely
unrecognizable. Decrease the
pixel size and increase the number of pixels (for instance, use 250
pixels of size 2x2) so that we can actually see the image.
Additional Notes
You may NOT use OpenGL calls which draw polygons to draw the triangle!
You can convert the code to C++ if you want; the Makefile should
work for C++ as well.
Turning in the project
Turn in the project using handin.
Hand in your source code, a Makefile for the Linux machines
in 67 Kemper, an executable that runs on the machines in 67 Kemper, an input
image file if you did texture mapping, and a brief README file
saying what you implemented. Make sure your name appears on all of the source files and prominently in the text file.
We will test the program by trying it on a variety of input files,
which we will run by typing
bigPix < input2
bigPixTex < input3
so please do not change the name of the executable, or make it read from a
file instead of stdin, etc. Thanks!