1.1   Piazza

We now have a class Piazza discussion, with this signup page. I enrolled everyone who pre-registered. Post your non personal questions here. You are encouraged to answer other students' questions. I may answer questions that remain unanswered for too long.

Part of your grade depends on answering some questions.

1.2   Homework 1 notes

1. You may use any (legal) webserver.
2. If using rpi.edu, you may use any (legal) upload technique.
3. Because of resource limits, rpi.edu's config has been known to change w/o notice. Also, my view of it can be different from the student view. E.g, students do not automatically get AFS access. However, the following points may help.
4. Mac users: ssh to rcs.rpi.edu with terminal.
5. Windows users: install putty. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to install SW on the classroom PC and so can't demo it.
6. Linux: run ssh to login to rcs.rpi.edu.
7. For copying files:
   1. For a few small files, cut and paste.
   2. Windows: install winscp or filezilla.
   3. From inside your rcs account: wget copies the contents (files or dirs) specified by a URL.
   4. With an AFS client program, your RCS directory is read and writable from another computer. On linux, that's the openafs-client package.
   5. From any OS, you may be able to mount your RCS dir as a share thus: sftp://rcs.rpi.edu .
8. Other platforms: ?
9. Today I'll demo the program in the homework and help in getting started.

1.3   Angel

1. Angel's slides should be here: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel/BOOK/INTERACTIVE_COMPUTER_GRAPHICS/SEVENTH_EDITION/PPT/

   or https://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel/BOOK/INTERACTIVE_COMPUTER_GRAPHICS/SEVENTH_EDITION/PPT/

2. Since that is not always working, use my local copy:

   https://wrf.ecse.rpi.edu/Teaching/graphics/SEVENTH_EDITION/

   Commentary: It is a myth that material on the web lasts forever. I have many counterexamples, even for pages I've used in this class over the years.

3. Read week 1, sets 1-4 on your own.

4. I'll do in class:

   1. Week 1, set 5, Image Formation