Members MetalGuitar08 Posted November 13, 2008 Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 Short story: I'm a Computer Science major and am also enrolled in the Honors Program at my university. For the program we have to create a capstone project that combines our major with another discipline. You can do a traveling capstone, a project, or a certification. I'm looking to combine CS and Mathematics, and I've honed in that I want to do a project, but I can't think of any great ideas to propose. If anyone has any suggestions for CS+Math, or CS + any other discipline, could ya help me out? Thanks a lot:thu: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tommythelurker Posted November 13, 2008 Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 see how many digits you can calculate pi to Uh oh, did I just end a sentence with a preposition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members raine36 Posted November 13, 2008 Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 CS + EE. I'm a CS Major with an EE minor. They really go hand in hand, so much overlap here that our EE majors get a CS minor by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MetalGuitar08 Posted November 13, 2008 Author Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 Is there a certain project I could undertake to show my understanding of both of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fatfat Posted November 13, 2008 Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 Is there a certain project I could undertake to show my understanding of both of them? If you understood them, then you would know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MetalGuitar08 Posted November 13, 2008 Author Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 If you understood them, then you would know. The point is to undertake a project demonstrating your understanding of your major and a field you are not comfortable in. Way to be a smartass.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fatfat Posted November 13, 2008 Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 The point is to undertake a project demonstrating your understanding of your major and a field you are not comfortable in. Way to be a smartass.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fatfat Posted November 13, 2008 Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 You could do some kind of 3d graphics project. LOTS of math in graphics. I have been out of the loop, but maybe there have been some cool advancements in raytracing, maybe real-time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pir Posted November 13, 2008 Members Share Posted November 13, 2008 Is there a certain project I could undertake to show my understanding of both of them? You could work with fuzzy logic / sets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tommythelurker Posted November 14, 2008 Members Share Posted November 14, 2008 cap?stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gary Cohn Posted November 14, 2008 Members Share Posted November 14, 2008 Why not do a animated flight plan factoring in speed, wind correction angles, quartering tail winds, and jetstreams. You have all those numbers to crunch, and a little computer generated airplane cruising around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joemudge4 Posted November 14, 2008 Members Share Posted November 14, 2008 write a little program that generates a sine wave, then build upon the sine wave so that it has some timbre, a simple synthesizer basically, then explain what is going on with it in the frequency domain using fourier transforms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SOMMS Posted November 14, 2008 Members Share Posted November 14, 2008 Short story: I'm a Computer Science major and am also enrolled in the Honors Program at my university. For the program we have to create a capstone project that combines our major with another discipline. You can do a traveling capstone, a project, or a certification. I'm looking to combine CS and Mathematics, and I've honed in that I want to do a project, but I can't think of any great ideas to propose. If anyone has any suggestions for CS+Math, or CS + any other discipline, could ya help me out? Thanks a lot:thu: Hey hey...now you're talking! This is exactly what I did...double major in Mathematics and Computer Science. To be honest: there are probably fields of study that would be 'easier' to combine with computer science. Why? Computers can be applied to almost any real (ie physical) world. Just off the top of my head: computers + civil engineering -> model traffic flow, flooding patterns, whatever computers + mechanical engineering -> robots! computers + electrical engineering -> build your own simple computer computers + physics -> general relativity...model space/time curvature of some simple objects, quantum mechanics...model an quantum computer that does something (prime factorization is a good one). list goes on... However, with mathematics everything is pretty abstract. You could model some abstract constructs (graphical/sorta boring). Prime numbers have always been interesting to me...you could implement the sieve of Eratosthenes. This wouldn't be too hard and would show that you have knowledge of both fields. SOMMS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted November 14, 2008 Members Share Posted November 14, 2008 You could do some kind of 3d graphics project. LOTS of math in graphics. I have been out of the loop, but maybe there have been some cool advancements in raytracing, maybe real-time? Real-time raytracing was a pretty hot topic last time I checked Gamedev.net. Lots of demos floating around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thinkpad20 Posted November 14, 2008 Members Share Posted November 14, 2008 Computer science + music. Design a program that can figure out the key a given song is in, and what the chord progression/s is/are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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