15-462 Assignments

Setting Things Up

• Instructions on logging in
• Note: if you make these dot files from a PC you MUST make sure that each line has a carriage return and doesn't have the ^M character.
• You can also use the script put together by the folks running the videogame class by making the obvious modifications in course number.
• Here is a pointer to the source code for libpicio. (Note: You can uncompress the file using "tar -xvjf libpicio.tar.bz2")
• A previous student's approach for working under Windows (not supported); remember that all programming assignments must compile & run on the 5336 computing cluster.
  

Programming Assignments

• Assignment 1:  Rendering height fields 
  
• Assignment 3:  Mobile Animation  (movie, mpg, 26MB)
• Assignment 5:  Fun with Particle Systems  (movie, mpg, 37 MB)
  
• Assignment 7:  Ray Tracing (movie, mpg, 10 MB)

Written Homework

• Assignment 2: Transformation and Viewing (pdf)     [Solution (pdf)]
  
• Assignment 4: Appearances, Curves and Surfaces (pdf)  [Solution (pdf)]
• Assignment 6: Images and Ray Tracing (pdf)  [Solution (pdf)]
  

Exams