CS 419H -- Fall Quarter 2006

Project #2: Color Sculpting

60 Points

Due: Friday, October 6


This page was last updated: October 2, 2006


Requirements:

  1. Run OpenDX (see the OpenDX notes for how to do this).
    Click on New Visual Program.

  2. Grab a Colormap module and hook it to a ColorBar module. Then hook the ColorBar module to an Image module. (Again, the OpenDX notes say how to do this.) It should look like this:

  3. Double-click on the Colormap module. It should look like this:

    The OpenDX Colormap module allows you to sculpt in HSV, but you are not restricted to just that color range. That is, you can produce different color ranges, but you have to think in HSV to sculpt them.

  4. Sculpt the following color ranges:
    1. Grayscale
    2. Heated Object
    3. Blue-White-Red

    In each case, think about what the HSV values must be to get the key colors. The Colormap module will then interpolate between the key colors.

  5. Create a new PowerPoint presentation file. (All programs -> Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Powerpoint 2003)

  6. Every time you successfully sculpt one of those required color scales, copy the entire screen to the clipboard. To do this, left-click the cursor outside any window, and then hit Shift-PrintScreen on the keyboard. Click in a PowerPoint slide and then click Edit->Paste. Use the PowerPoint image editing tools to size and crop the image so that it looks good in the slide.

  7. Do one slide for each color scale. Put a title slide on the front.

  8. Rename your .ppt file to be some form of your last name or login. For example, Joe Graphics might name his "jgraphics02.ppt".
    Upload your .ppt file to Project02 in the Teach area.

    If this doesn't work, just email me your .ppt file as an attachment.

Examples:

When Joe Graphics did the assignment, his screens looked like this. Note that his color-sculpting curves have been hidden, but yours should be visible.

Grayscale

Heated Object Scale

Blue-White-Red

Grading:

Item Points
Correct grayscale 20
Correct heated-object scale 20
Correct blue-white-red 20
Potential Total 60