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• Adrian Perez is duplicating the animations onto CD ROM (not videotape). If you want a copy but didn't sign up for one, contact him.
• FINAL EXAM: Mon 7 May, 8:30am-11:30: Margaret Morrison 103. final exam schedule. Final is closed book, closed notes, covers entire semester. Watch the notes web page for additional notes available Friday 4 May.
• The deadline for assignment 4 animations is extended by 24 hrs. The new deadline is Thursday 3 May at 11:59pm. Animations turned in after that are likely to not make it onto the final videotape, which we hope to distribute on Monday at the final exam.
• This talk on humanoid motion planning Thu 3 May 12:30 might be of interest.
• 16 Apr: Assignment 4 is out. Demos are 1 May (not 26 Apr.)
• 10 Apr: See new BSP Tree web page listed on Notes web page.
• 6 Apr: HW2 is out, due 12 Apr.
• FYI: Adrian's picture of fractal tetrahedron. Took 22 hours because spheres not included in BSP tree, but a linear list. (262,000 triangles, 87,000 spheres). Without the spheres, picture took only 8 minutes. Conclusion: linear lists are slow!
• 12 Mar: Assignment 3 (ray tracing) is out. See assignments link below. Code & demos due 3 Apr. note extension. Animation due 8 Apr.
• If you feel your homework 1 problem 3 was graded unfairly, you may appeal that grade. See the newsgroup cmu.cs.class.cs463 for details.
• midterm is Tue 6 March, closed book, closed notes. Scope: topics covered so far. You should known the defn of convolution and FT, for example. Highly detailed formulas will be provided to you, if relevant.
• 12 Feb: homework 1 is out. Due Fri. 16 Feb 4pm. See assignments link below.
• 18 Feb: watch the newsgroup (link below) to read the latest discussion between students, TA's, and me, with debugging tips for assignment 2.
• 18 Feb: FLTK version of subsurf, the interaction starter code for assignment 2, is ready. See assignment 2 web page on assignments link below.
• 14 Feb: Assignment 2 is out. Demos are Thu 22 Feb, see assignments link below.
• 12 Feb: assignment 2 is not available yet, but will be available Tue or Wed.
• 29 Jan: because some students didn't get their pictures taken last week, some of you will have to wait until after 3pm Tuesday to start work on the animation part of your morph assignment.
• read newsgroup for tips regarding assignment 1!
• 21 Jan: assignment 1 is due 31 Jan. and demos are Thu 1 Feb. See assignments link below.
• Interested in refraction and optics? Visit the excellent gems exhibit in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It's one block from campus, and admission is free for CMU students! (take your ID card)
• David Kirk of 3D graphics hardware company NVidia will speak briefly in class on Thursday, 25 Jan and will interview students at the Technical Intern Expo through the day. NVidia has these job openings.
• 21 Jan: assignment 1 is out; it's due 31 Jan. See assignments link below. You can start on part 1 of this assignment NOW, then when the pictures are ready, move on to part 2.
• to communicate to me and the two TA's, send email to 463-staff@cs
• 16 Jan: I'm accepting everybody on the waiting list into the course.
• 16 Jan: correction to the administrative handout given out in class: Virginia Arrington's office is Newell-Simon 4224, not Doherty 4224.
• 16 Jan: First day of class.
• 10 Jan: class has been reassigned to Doherty 2315. (Previously the class was assigned to Porter Hall A18A)
• Possibly of interest: Talk by Lowry Burgess of CMU's Art Dept on Telepresence and Spatialization, Thu 18 Jan 4:30. See abstract in cmu.cs.class.cs463 newsgroup.
• 15 Nov 2000: Mark Stehlik says 30 students are currently registered, and 31 wait-listed, for Spring 2001. I'm told the classroom in Porter Hall can hold 50. I'm trying to accept as many of the wait-listed students as possible. Probably there will be enough attrition by the 2nd or 3rd week of class in January that everybody who wants to can take the class. -PH
• 17 Nov: As of today, I see 47 students registered, and 17 wait-listed.
• Interested in a graphics programming job at CMU? Consider EventScope.
• Or a summer internship in California at Pacific Data Images?
• enlightenment: see the Astronomy Picture of the Day collection e.g. shadow of a tree during eclipse illustrates convolution or the earth at night, a nice texture map.
• Jobs and Scholarships in Computer Graphics