Fish Aquarium

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Fish Aquarium

• Joseph Snow, Jarom Jones, Blake Nelson
• CS 4500 Senior Project

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Aquarium Design

• Three Main parts
• Simulation Engine
• Graphics
• Editor

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Simulation Engine

• maintains statistics
• controls behaviors

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Graphics

• individual creature models
• multiple creatures with varying attributes

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Editor

• modify behavior attributes
• save state of design
• display statistics

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Additional Details

• Entire project should be cross platform
• Linux, Unix and Windows
• Written in C
• using Open GL for the graphics

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Additional Quirks

• Scientific and Realistic
• Interesting to everyone

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Our Competition

• Non-graphical simulations
• Unrealistic screen saver type programs

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Customers

• Educational Institutions
• Aquariums, museums, libraries, schools
• Aesthetic display
• Imagine a flat screen fish aquarium hanging in
  your office
• Research institutions
• Behavior theory can be simulated

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Money

• Secondary Schools
• People will like our research and pay us money to
  work at large monopolizing institutions
• Screen saver revenue. (Well insert annoying
  banners for their monetary value)