Visualization, Spring'98, Yap

HOMEWORK 2:
ADDITIONAL NOTES

Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:31:02 -0500
From: yap@jinai.cs.nyu.edu (Chee Yap)
To: golec@acm.org
Subject: Re: Hw2 Second Viewport
Cc: g22_3033_002_sp98@cs.nyu.edu

John,

I have no preference.  Do whichever is
better.

--Chee

> From golec@acm.org Sun Mar  1 23:05 EST 1998
> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 23:03:14 -0500
> From: "John A. Golec" 
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: Chee Yap 
> Subject: Hw2 Second Viewport
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> In regards to the second viewport, would you prefer that it be contained
> 
> within the original window, or displayed as a second window?
> 
> -John
> 
> John A. Golec
> gole7779@cs.nyu.edu


March 1, 1998: we allow the following alternative for doing hw2:
-- Instead of the rotating inner cube, you can construct a rotating 3-dimensional logo:
"Visualization Course"
(with wood or contour line textures mapped on to the logo). More time can be allocated if you want to solve this.
-- I will adopt the best solution for our class logo!
If you are not seeing your contour textures, here are some possibilities to check:
  1. Try setting glDepthFunc(GL_LEQUAL) (the default is GL_LESS).
  2. The dimensions of your texture must have the form (2^m) + (2b) where b is the border and m is any positive integer.
QUESTION ABOUT 2-D TEXTURES
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:11:50 -0500 (EST)
> From: Hua Wang 
> To: Chee Yap 
> Subject: about Homework2 of Visualization
> 
> Hi, professor:
>   Homework2 requies 2-dimensional textures are generated on the faces of
> the outer cube, But you have not specify the detail of the texture. What
> texture should we use here?
>   Thanks.
> Hua

Sorry, I should have been more clear.
I wanted you to come up with some 2-D
textures of your own.  Perhaps scanned.   

If you do something worth noting, please put this
in your writeup (in the
README file, as usual).
BUG IN THE TURBULENCE FUNCTION:
In my original html file, I left out the "absolute" function in defining the turbulence function. It is now fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Meyer (and also Aaron Hertzmann) who first pointed this out.