From 9adc5a21361372481a97ac10132cced63fb93768 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: josh <josh@45c1a28c-8058-47b2-ae61-ca45b979098e>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:40:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] working on report

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     <h2>FART Final Report</h2>
 
+    <h4>Table of Contents</h4>
+    <ol>
+        <li><a href="#problem">The Problem</a></li>
+        <li><a href="#model">Model</a></li>
+        <li><a href="#design">Design</a></li>
+        <li><a href="#implementation">Implementation</a></li>
+        <li><a href="#evaluation">Evaluation</a></li>
+        <li><a href="#futurework">Future Work</a></li>
+    </ol>
+
+    <a name="problem" />
+    <h4>The Problem</h4>
+    <p>
+        FART is my semester project for the Computer Science 658 class
+        at Grand Valley State University.
+        My goal is for FART to be a distributed, fault-tolerant,
+        object-oriented raytracer.
+        The name is a
+        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym">recursive acronym</a>
+        similar to GNU or LAME.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+        The input to the program will be a scene description file.
+        Scene description files are structured ASCII documents.
+        The format is a hierarchical layout of scene options and elements.
+        After the scene file is parsed, the scene will be raytraced
+        (rendered) according to the render options.
+        Some of these options can be specified on the command line and
+        others can be specified in the scene description file.
+        When a given option can be specified both places, the command-line
+        options will override what is in the scene file.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+        Rendering can be done using the built-in task distribution
+        infrastructure.
+        Command-line options will be utilized to specify a "hosts file"
+        which can contain a list of hosts to use while rendering the scene.
+        The algorithm is fault-tolerant so that if any of the worker
+        nodes goes down the tasks can be reorganized so other nodes
+        complete what the faulty nodes did not.
+    </p>
+
+    <a name="model" />
+    <h4>Model</h4>
+    <p>
+        I used an object-oriented model for the program.
+        Each displayable scene object is represented by a C++ object
+        which inherits from the <tt>Shape</tt> base-class, while light objects
+        inherit from a base <tt>Light</tt> class.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+        <tt>Shape</tt> objects implement an <tt>intersect()</tt> method.
+        Polymorphism is utilized so that when the scene attempts to
+        intersect a <tt>Ray</tt> with a shape object, it does not need
+        to know the actual type of shape object being intersected with.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+        The task distribution infrastructure is implemented in a class
+        called <tt>distrib</tt>.
+        This package contains methods to start up a server thread, launch
+        slave processes on the worker nodes, and connect back from the
+        slave processes to the master server.
+    </p>
+
+    <a name="design" />
+    <h4>Design</h4>
+    <p>
+        The design document for FART is available
+        <a href="design.html">here</a>.
+    </p>
+
+    <a name="implementation" />
+    <h4>Implementation</h4>
+
+    <a name="evaluation" />
+    <h4>Evaluation</h4>
+
+    <a name="futurework" />
+    <h4>Future Work</h4>
+
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