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11/10: Play assignment 3 video! (6.3 MB MPEG) . for more info.
Play assignment 2 video! (1.9 MB MPEG) . If problems or for info on making your own MPEG.
12/8: Updated lecture notes on rendering, illumination, ray tracing now available.
12/5: Graded midterms and homework 3's are available at my office. I will be in my office until 9:30pm on Mon 12/8. -Paul. Solutions are available on the assignments page.
final will be Tues. 12/9 from 1-4pm in Baker Hall 136A. Bring $4 cash to the final if you want to buy a copy of the animation videotape.
Deadline for asst4 animation sequences is extended to Sunday noon 12/7. Recording will commence on Saturday, beginning with those who have their animations done by then, and appending others as they indicate that they have finished. We ask that everyone do the following:
1. Make sure the directory and filename conventions are followed ([login]/asst4/raymain/anim/nnn.tiff).
2. Make sure no other tif or tiff files are in that directory.
3. Put your desired framerate in a file named "framerate" in that directory.
4. If your animation is split between two different directories, make symbolic links in the first directory (i.e., the one that matches the naming convention) to the images in the second directory. As an example of how to make a symlink, say you want to make a symlink to /usr/local/bin/emacs in your current directory. Then you'd type " ln -s /usr/local/bin/emacs ." (note the dot at the end! ln requires a source and a target, just like cp, mv, and all those other Unix commands).
5. If you haven't already, send email to let us know the state, as detailed in the assignment 4 submission instructions
10/20: We put up a 22' long poster of student images from assignment 2 in the Wean 4600 hallway (near the elevators). Check it out!
11/14: Assignment 4, Ray Casting, is due 1 Dec, see assignments page
12/1: there have been a number of bug fixes to the assignment 4 code since Friday. If you've been having any mysterious bugs, read the class news group and get a fresh copy of the raytrace, libdl, and raymain source code. Also see note about tomorrow's demos & leniency for late solutions there. -Paul
11/21: full assignment 4 support code is now released. See src/raytrace, src/libdl, src/raymain. Full handout now available. Notes on ray-polygon intersection are now available on notes web page.
Want an account on an Octane? These are really fast SGI workstations, in College of Fine Arts Room 317
11/8: libforms.so was messed up for half a day, but it should be working now. We've switched to Xforms version 0.86. Email {ph,thkang,cavalier}@cs if trouble.
we plan to show the asst3 video in class on 11/11
11/7: "Rendering Basics" (Bresenham) lecture notes are on the web now.
11/5: Homework 3 is due Thu 13 Nov; see assignments page
11/5: You can delete your assignment 2 animations now, if you haven't already. See news group for pointers on compressing picture files.
10/21: selected solutions to homework 2 problem 3 (postscript signature)
10/28: feedback on assignment 2 was emailed. If you did the assignment you should have received email by now.
10/22: Assignment 3 is due Mon Nov 3; see assignments page
10/15: graded homework 2's and solutions are available from my secretary, Phyllis Pomerantz, in DH 4301G.
I suggest you keep your asst1 paint programs around (source, anyway), since they might be useful to you for asst3 or 4. You can delete or gzip your asst1 animations now.
10/10: Please don't delete your asst2 animations for a few weeks, since we're still working on making mpegs of them and printing out some stills.
10/5: Assignment 2 web page now has links to pictures and formulas at its end.
midterm will be 10/16 in class
9/26: Assignment 2 is due Weds 8 Oct; see assignments page
9/24: notes are available in PDF format now on notes page.
9/18: Homework 2 is due Thu 25 Sept; see assignments page
In case you're not sick of all this, a computer simulation of Princess Diana's car crash, (Netscape plug-in required to view all of it).
9/8: on assignment 1, make sure you use the right version of fdesign!
9/6: slides on raster basics in notes section now include filtering.
9/5: see tips on how to do transparency for asst1 in news group.
9/4: 8 bit Suns now initialize the colormap properly so you can do assignment 1 on them with little trouble (we hope). See news group.
9/4: bus error problems on SGI's fixed if you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH properly -- see news group discussion or corrected assignment 1 web page.
9/4: a solution to homework 1 (vector/matrix math) is available on the assignments page
9/2: See the newsgroup for discussion of how to refresh the canvas in your asst1 paint program in case another window overdraws it.
8/30: tips on digitizing video with IndyCams have been linked to the assignment 1 handout.
8/29: Assignment 1 is due Monday 8 Sept; see assignments page
We had Tom Kang's office number & hours wrong in the printed handout on Tuesday. See corrected version.
Registration form. You must register here to get a directory for programming assignments.
8/29: Homework 1 is due Tuesday 2 Sept; see assignments page
8/26: Notes on intro and OpenGL are fixed now (intro.ps and opengl.ps were bad from 2pm-6pm Tuesday).
if you want to get into this class, but weren't able to add it
THIS CLASS DOES NOT MEET IN DOHERTY 2210; IT WAS RELOCATED!