CG Class 2, Wed 2018-09-05
Table of contents
1 Piazza
We now have a class Piazza discussion . Post your non personal questions here. You are encouraged to answer other students' questions. Lingyu will monitor this and reply. I may answer questions that remain unanswered for too long.
2 Lingyu office hours
Tuesdays and Fridays during 5pm~6pm in the Flip Flop lounge, JEC6037. Please come around the start of the time.
3 Corrected midterm date
Thurs Oct 11.
4 Homework 1 notes
- You may use any (legal) webserver.
- If using rpi.edu, you may use any (legal) upload technique.
- Mac users: ssh to rcs.rpi.edu with terminal.
- Windows users: install putty. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to install SW on the classroom PC and so can't demo it.
- Linux: run ssh to login to rcs.rpi.edu.
- For copying files:
- For a few small files, cut and paste.
- Windows: install winscp or filezilla.
- From inside your rcs account: wget copies the contents (files or dirs) specified by a URL.
- With an AFS client program, your RCS directory is read and writable from another computer. On linux, that's the openafs-client package.
- From any OS, you may be able to mount your RCS dir as a share thus: sftp://rcs.rpi.edu .
- Other platforms: ?
- Today I'll demo the program in the homework and help in getting started.
5 Angel
- Angel's slides are here: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel/BOOK/INTERACTIVE_COMPUTER_GRAPHICS/SEVENTH_EDITION/PPT/
- Read week 1, sets 1-4 on your own.
- I'll do in class:
- Week 1, set 5, Image Formation