The grading for programming assignments 5, 6 and 7 will be done at 6:00 pm on Thursday (10/29). Please make sure you have your latest stuff checked in before that.
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Due: Thursday, November 5 (see the class late policy on the Syllabus) Synopsis: You will add more advanced effects, such as advanced texturing, objects to your GraphicsTown project in order to try out the ideas discussed in class. Learning Objectives: The goal of this project is to give you experience creating implementing more advanced visual […]
Last week, we learned about practical aspects of texturing. And we had our first phase of the Graphics Town Project. This week, you’ll get to apply that knowledge of the practical aspects of texturing in the next phase of the Graphics Town Project. Oh, and there’s that exam thing. So this week: For Monday, October […]
You can download the practice midterm via this link [PDF] Please note: This practice midterm is designed to be more difficult than the actual exam. The types of questions seen in this midterm (some multiple choice, some short answers, some full questions) are indicative of the format of the actual exam. Some questions may venture a […]
Program 7 uses the new handin mechanism. This requires both a link on Canvas as well as uploading your files to a server. The link for Canvas was broken (but 22 people found it anyway). So for P7, if you didn’t send a Canvas link, it’s OK. (For P8, the Canvas link is important since […]
Your midterm exam is scheduled at 7:15pm-9:15pm, on Tuesday October 27th. Location : Psychology Room #113
So there was another (very minor) change to the graphics town framework code. (the first one was the helicopter) The change adds 1 important line – when the drawing state is defined, it also sets “camera” to be the camera matrix (the inverse of the view matrix). Of course, you didn’t need this (your objects […]
If you want to understand indexed face sets and OBJ files (as described in class, and useful for the project), you might want to read Chapter 4 of Hart’s book (canvas link here). It’s not a required reading until after the midterm, but it has come up in class already.
We will have a pre-class help session tomorrow (Thursday 10/22) at 10:15am.
The best thing is, of course, to go back over the Course Calendar to remind yourself what you’ve read and what we’ve discussed. Remember to go to the Lecture Notes category of the web page to see the lecture notes from most of the lectures. Looking at last year’s list won’t be too helpful because […]