Spring 2025 Final Project Showcase

In Spring 2025, the class of CS184/284A produced over 60 team projects. Teams had broad flexibility over 4 weeks to investigate a topic of their interest, and final projects ranged over topics that included rendering, simulation, geometric modeling and processing, computational imaging, and machine learning.

The projects below were selected as Showcase Winners and Honorable Mentions. Thanks to all the students for your hard work, and a special congratulations to the teams recognized below!

Projects are alphabetically listed.

Showcase Winners

Implicit, deformable thin-sheet dynamics simulation engine

By Brandon Huang, Krishna Mani, Max Tse, and Siva Tanikonda

Lightning Simulation

By Claire Ding, James Ni, Jennifer Cao, and Sonia Chacon

Lumen: Global Illumination in Unreal Engine

By Jasper Liu, Jinglun Zhang, Junming Chen, and Zihan Liao

Monet-ification

By Inas Anwar, Mihir Rao, Rohan Aanegola, and Swetha Rajkumar

Semi-Automated Vector Based 2D Cel Shading

By Ian Wong, Jay Yoo, Noah Abji, and Siyona Sarma

Honorable Mentions

CUDA-Accelerated Neural Pathtracing

By Shashank Anand, Yongye Zhu, Yifei Dai, and Seyoung Kim

Interactive Fluid Simulation

By Ann Basil, Benjamin Bliss, David Hernandez, and Jinkang Fang

Jack of All Waters

By Shiran Yuan, Jeremy Fischer, Nicholas Jean, and Stephen Lee

N3CTAR: Neural 3D Cellular Tessellated Automata Rendering

By Annabel Ng, George Rickus, Hyeonmok Ko, and Samarth Jajoo

Paint by Numbers, Coloring Book Sim

By Keira Swei, Kyle Cheng, Robert Ni, and Vivan Sinha

Spheres & Physics, but in Minecraft!

By Isabella Alpert, Joel Castro, Jordan Duan, and Robert Nochez

You Are My Sunshine (YAMS): Realistic Sunset Rendering

By Harris Thai, Kenny Wang, Max Phillips, and William Li