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NOTE: A new version of the graphics code is availabe - fixes HP bug, etc. If you retrieved it from the TAs directory before 5:15pm on Wed., January 25, you should retrieve the new versions.

This assignment has three parts:

use the World Wide Web/Mosaic to get class information (since you've found this, you've completed the first part of the assignment!)
log onto and use computers appropriate for the course. It will be easiest if you use the HP and/or SGI machines in the CSEL (Computer Science Teaching Lab - 105 MLH). Use of other Unix machines is okay, but please clear it with me first. Use of PCs/MACs is okay IF you're willing to do some extra stuff on your own - the TA and I will be providing graphics code that you'll use in your assignments. The code is based on X Windows and Motif and we won't port it to PCs/Macs for you.
copy and try out the graphics and user interface code we've written. You'll be using it throughout the semester. It's not wonderful, but it allows you to put up a graphics window, display 3D ojects, and look at them from different viewpoints via mouse interactions. We will probably not improve the interface significantly, and you are not required to, though you might want to at some point. You do not even need to understand the code. Your assignement will involve basic C programming with a small number of calls to graphics routines provided in the library we give. You can find the code in the directory /users/stevenso/pub (or ~stevenso/pub, if the other doesn't work. Pathnames aren't quite working seamlessly in the CSEL yet it seems). Read the README and README.ALSO files and follow the directions given there.

class - Jim Cremer
Wed Jan 25 13:14:01 CST 1995