Scribd
Upload
4 views3 pages

Assignment 02

This assignment requires the implementation of the Phong lighting model and reflections in computer graphics, with a submission deadline of October 13, 2023. Students must modify the Scene.cpp file to compute lighting contributions and add shadow effects, as well as implement reflections using a recursive ray tracing algorithm. Grading is based on various contributions including ambient, diffuse, specular, shadows, and reflections, and students must submit a .zip file containing their modified files and a readme.txt describing their solutions.

Uploaded by

d6aa8dfbb
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
4 views3 pages

Assignment 02

This assignment requires the implementation of the Phong lighting model and reflections in computer graphics, with a submission deadline of October 13, 2023. Students must modify the Scene.cpp file to compute lighting contributions and add shadow effects, as well as implement reflections using a recursive ray tracing algorithm. Grading is based on various contributions including ambient, diffuse, specular, shadows, and reflections, and students must submit a .zip file containing their modified files and a readme.txt describing their solutions.

Uploaded by

d6aa8dfbb
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Introduction to Computer Graphics

Assignment 2 – Lighting

Submission deadline: 13.10.2023, 12:00


Late submissions are not accepted

Figure 1: Expected result for Phong lighting model, shadows and reflections.

In this assignment, you will implement the Phong lighting model and add reflections to your scenes. The
framework code for this assignment extends the one from last week; if you download a fresh copy from
ILIAS you will need to copy your solutions for the plane and cylinder intersections into the files Plane.cpp
and Cylinder.cpp. Furthermore,“todo” comments have been inserted in Scene.cpp to indicate where
you need to add your implementations. If you already set up a git repository to collaborate with your fellow
group members, you can just copy the TODO comments from Scene.cpp over to your repository (or just
note where your implementation needs to go and get started).
In the expected_results directory, we provide the images you should expect your finished code to produce
for a subset of the provided scenes. One such result is shown in Figure ??.

1/??
Computer Graphics @ UniBE, Fall 2023 Assignment 2 – Lighting

Phong Lighting Model and Shadows

The goal of the first part of this assignment is to implement the Phong lighting model. Follow the
explanations from the lecture slides and the formula in Fig. ??. In the file Scene.cpp, you need to fill in
the missing code in the lighting() function to compute the variable color.

Figure 2: Phong lighting formula.

Start by computing the global ambient contribution. The result of this step is shown in Figure ?? on the
top left. Then, for each light, add in its diffuse and specular contributions (see Fig. ?? top middle and top
right). You will probably find it helpful to review the attributes stored in classes Light and Material.
Feel free to use the existing vector functions in vec3.h e.g. mirror, reflect, norm, dot, normalize.
To add shadows to your scene, discard the diffuse and specular contributions from light sources that are
blocked by another object. You can determine which light sources are blocked by generating a shadow ray
(see lecture and exercise slides) and using the intersection() function. The expected result is shown in
Fig. ?? lower left.

Reflections

The second part of this assignment is to add reflections to your scene. In the file Scene.cpp you need to
fill in the missing code in the trace() function to update the variable color. Follow the recursive ray
tracing algorithm explained in the lecture and the todo comments in the code.
Use the material.mirror to determine how reflective the material is and the function reflect() to
compute the reflected ray. Compute the final returned color using linear interpolation:

color = (1 − α) · color + α · reflected_color, (1)

where reflected_color is computed by recursively tracing a ray reflected at the intersection point (see
the exercise slides), and α is the material.mirror property.

Grading

Each part of this assignment is weighted as follows:

2/??
Computer Graphics @ UniBE, Fall 2023 Assignment 2 – Lighting

• Ambient contribution: 10%

• Diffuse contribution: 15%

• Specular contribution: 20%

• Shadows: 25%

• Reflections: 30%

What to hand in

A .zip compressed file with the following contents:

• Hand in only the files you changed (in this case, Scene.cpp) and the requested program output. It
is up to you to make sure that all files that you have changed are in the zip.

• A readme.txt file containing a description on how you solved each exercise and the encountered
problems.

• Other files that are required by your readme.txt file. For example, if you mention some screenshot
images in readme.txt, these images need to be submitted too.

Submit solutions to ILIAS before the deadline. Late submissions receive 0 points!

3/??

You might also like