For my graduate-level graphics course CIS 5600: Interactive Computer Graphics, I implemented "Mini Maya," a miniature replication of the 3D computer graphics application Autodesk Maya. My mesh editor application hosted a variety of features, such as a user friendly GUI for mesh editing, various primitive mesh operations like face triangulation and subdividing, multiple file type importing,  and a half edge data structure that allowed for vertex, edge, and face manipulation. 

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My responsibilities included: ​

• GUI  

  • Spinboxes for color (RGB) and position (XYZ)

  • Function buttons 

  • Mesh component lists (vertices, half edges, faces)

  • Skeleton joint tree

• Topology-Editing Functions​

  • Vertex and join translation 

  • Face triangulation

  • Edge splitting 

  • Catmull-Clark Subdivision

• Shader-based Skin Deformation

  • Linear blend skinning via bind matrices and joint weights​

• Polar Spherical Camera

• Different File Types for Import

  • OBJ (Mesh)​

  • JSON (Skeleton / Joints)

  • USD (Added for additional mesh file type supports)