15-463, Spring 1997

Old Announcements

• 4/24: SGI executable for the radiosity visualization program demonstrated by Andrew Willmott today is available on the web and also at /afs/cs/project/anim/local/bin/radvis, for local users.
• Class on 4/29 will meet in Wean 5205, not DH A317, because we'll spend the class period doing demos of your P4 (radiosity) programs. I've reserved all of Wean 5205 and the first row of 5202 during that the class period.
• 4/23: some bugs in the OpenGL version of the P4 support software were fixed. See the news group for details.
• some nice P4 pictures from last year, perhaps inspirational.
• 4/22: I posted a message to the class news group clarifying how to calculate form factors for P4 without trig calls. -Paul
• Assignment P4, Radiosity is due 27 April.
• 4/3: Class handout on procedural solid texture is available.Additional sample code is available in the same directory.
• 4/3: Sample pictures demonstrating procedural texture are available.
• 3/19: Assignment P3, Ray Tracing is due 10 April.
• If you're interested in more info on ray tracing, see Ray Tracing News
• 3/18: I modified the wording of W2 problem 2f to clarify it, as was discussed in class. See w2.ps on assignments page
• 3/13: Assignment W2 is due Thursday 20 Mar. See the assignments page
• Please see the class bboard (cmu.cs.class.cs463) for comments on the midterms.
• Assignment P2, Ray Casting is due 13 March.
• 2/7: Assignment W1 is due Thursday 13 Feb. See the assignments page
• Bill Nye the Science Guy kids TV show will discuss light optics on Sat 8 Mar, channel 4, 7:30-8am and 1-1:30pm. It's better than you might think!
• 2/27 The mid-semester grades you receive shortly will be figured based on W1 & midterm, but not P1, which we haven't finished grading yet.
• 2/25 I put notes from Tuesday's lecture (compression) on the web after class.
• An intense time was had by all at the Midterm, 20 Feb. :-).
• 2/20 If you didn't pick up your graded W1 assignment yet, you can do so in class on 2/25 or come to Paul's office.
• Midterm will be 20 Feb. in class; review in class on 18 Feb.
• Morph animation will be shown and discussed in class 13 Feb.
• 2/11: reading assignments are now indicated on the syllabus.
• 2/7: Assignment W1 is due Thursday 13 Feb. See the assignments page
• 2/5: It's OK to turn in PC (or other non-Sun, non-SGI) executables when you turn in your morph assignment. Give us enough that we can do a test run of your program, however.
• Make sure to read the software page to see how to set things up to run our software. All software should now be available (for both Sun4 and SGI).
• Perhaps of interest: There will be a TV program on PBS about the invention of television on channel 13, Mon 10 Feb., 9-10pm.
• 2/1: Face pictures are now on-line. We beautified many of you, and each of you should find an a.tiff and b.tiff in your p1 directories.
• 1/23: If you didn't pick up a copy of the Beier-Neely paper for homework P1 in class , get one from Phyllis Pomerantz.
• 1/25: GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN TUE 1/28 in Doherty 4301 after class (10:15-12:30am) for the morph assignment.
• 1/22: Programming Assignment 1 is now available.
  
• 1/16: Sign in to the class or you won't have a directory for assignment P1.