CS 101 - Introduction to Computing

Spring 2007

Project 3 - "Do It Yourself Andy Warhol"

Due: April 5, 2010 at 11:59 pm

Andy Warhol is famous for creating silkscreen prints of common images. These prints often had the same image duplicated many times and varied the color used. Examples of these can be seen in the following images:

Some of the above are actual images of Andy Warhol prints while other are done copying his style. An online art musuem at http://www.warhol.org/ or http://www.malarze.walhalla.pl/galeria.php5?art=70 shows many examples of Andy Warhol's art.

For this homework project, you are to be inspired by Andy Warhol to create a collage of at least 4 different versions of the same original image. At least two of the versions are to be posterizations using different final colors. The other versions of the image can be done in anyway you like as long as they are not the same. The different versions can be displayed in some grid format of at least size of 2x2 pictures.

For 5 pts Extra Credit, make the grid of a minimum of 6 different pictures.

You are not to hardcode in the image used or the size of the resulting image. You should prompt the user for an image, create and display the collage and allow the user to save the final collage in any filename of their choice.

Your code must be commented and written in good programming style.

Project Collaboration

You are allowed to receive help on this project from other students who are also taking CS 101. Each student must still complete and submit his/her own project. You will be required to include a Collaboration Statement somewhere on your project if you receive help. This statement can simply be something like the following:
For this project, I received help from the following member of CS 101.
This statement should list each helping student's name in a comment in the "header comment" of your Java file that includes the main() method.

How assignments should be submitted

  1. Go to the blackboard site for the class
  2. Select "Assignments" on the left bar
  3. Locate the correct assignment to submit; click on "View/Complete Assignment" at the bottom of that assignment
  4. Next to "Attach local file", click "Choose file", choose the file you want to submit; please submit only ONE file, properly named.
    For example for Proj1, name it Proj1yournetid.java, for example if your Net ID is sfranz3, the filename would be Proj1sfranz3.java
    Please only submit source code file (the .java file, not the .class). Also, if you have any comment about your program, please write it down in the same file; please do NOT write in the "Comments" field on the submission page (this will go into a different file and will be easily missed).
  5. Hit "Submit"
  6. Go back once again to View/Complete assignment and make sure that your file was submitted; also, this page will show your grade and comments (if any) after assignments are graded.

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