Computer Science 110 The Art & Science of Computer Graphics Mount Holyoke College Spring 2008

Agenda

• Announcements
  • Special office hours tonight: 6:30-8:30 or so
  • New Mead bootable CD available
• Labs this week: replicated objects
• Lecture assignment recap
• Programming
  • A function with multiple uses: adding both salt and pepper
  • Another option: adding items from a list
  • Adding lots of items in a pattern: a multiAdd function

Lecture Assignment

Due at the start of class, Wednesday, April 2.

Turn in a short answer to the following question. Please turn in a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK). We will discuss these questions during class, so no late submissions are accepted.

1. Using the multiAdd function from the Doughnuts example, write Mead code that will add 50 red spheres, each of size 10x10x10, which are centered at (0,0,0), (10,10,10), (20,20,20), (30,30,30), ... All you need to do is to fill in the parameters to multiAdd below:

   (object littleRedSphere Sphere
      (material redPlastic)
      (scale .1 .1 .1)
   )
   
   (multiAdd
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   )
   

Examples

• SaltAndPepper
• SpiceMix
• Doughnuts
• MoreDoughnuts