Computer Science 112
The Art & Science of Computer Graphics

Spring 2013, The College of Saint Rose

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Extra help sessions will be Wednesdays 10:40-11:40 in Science Center 469A - all are welcome
  • Working on getting tutoring from the Academic Support Center
  • Update on Mead in additional labs
  • Update on bootable CDs to run Mead on PCs
• Lecture assignment 3 recap
• Pre-lab: ensure everyone can log in, enter ans save a Mead model to an appropriate location, run Mead to generate and save an image, also to an appropriate location (which could later be uploaded to the Wiki)
• Steps in developing a model (so far)
  1. Mead require
  2. Add objects to the scene
     • tell the scene that you want to add things
     • so far, these "things" are cube, sphere, cylinder, and cone objects
     • we can subject to transformations including translate, scale, xRot, yRot, and zRot, and compose-"itions" of these
  3. Tell the camera to shoot a picture
  4. Use lots of comments
  5. And do it all in the proper Scheme syntax
• Building an ice cream cone
• Defining group objects - lots of ice cream cones
• Start work on Studio/Lab 2: A Simple Model

No New Lecture Assignment

Examples

• Mead Example: IceCreamCone
• Mead Example: IceCreamCones