The Maya lamps, lights, baseball bat, wine glass assignment will be due 
on Monday, March 4th.

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/lampsLinks.html

What are the requirements for your Lamps, Baseball Bat, Wine Glass 
assignment? 

  1.  Two different lamps.  One can be exactly like the Michael O'Rourke
         lamp, if you wish.  NURBS Sphere (squashed hemi-sphere) base,
         polygon cylinders lamp arms, NURBS Cone lamp shade, Spot Light
         light that casts shadows.

      The other lamp MUST have the following:
                     ----

        i.  2 or 3 or 4 Polygonal Cubes for the base of the lamp.

              (Do NOT use NURBS Cubes for the base of the lamp.  They
               will give you problems because NURBS Cubes cannot
               be easily selected in Object select mode - H O C).

       ii.  Polygonal Cubes for the 3 arms of the lamp.
            You are NOT allowed to use Polygonal cylinders.
            POLYGONAL CUBES are required for the arms.

      iii.  NURBS Cone lamp shade.

       iv.  Spot Light type light that is set to cast shadows.

  2.  A baseball bat or some other interesting structure in the scene
      that is resting on the floor or perhaps leaning against the wall.
      Is it lying on the floor or laying on the floor?  Is there an
                                        English major in the house?  :-)

      You are welcome to do something else instead of a baseball bat.
      You can model something like a chair, a bed, a table or a desk 
      instead.  Or perhaps a tennis racquet.

  3.  A wine glass sitting on the floor.  You are certainly welcome to
      have it sitting on some sort of table or other structure, if you
      wish.

      You are welcome to substitute something else instead of a wine glass.
      The wine glass is pretty easy to do, so most anything else will
      be okay, since most anything else will be at least as challenging
      as modeling the wine glass.

  4.  At least one wall, perhaps two walls, but definitely at least one
      wall that can have some shadows.

      We will be able to see some shadows on the floors and the walls
      that your spot lights and your point light(s) cast.

  5.  At least one or two point lights so we can have some background
      light besides the light cast by the two lamps and their spot
      lights.

    You are welcome to do more than is stated above.  If you want to
    create a model of what your dorm room or apartment room or living
    room looks like, you are welcome to create additional objects
    such as:

               couches, chairs, TVs, pizza boxes, windows in the wall,
               doors, door handles, end tables, tables, curtains,
               etc.

    And if you do additional things, you can skip the baseball bat and/or
    the wine glass too.  Just so you have something besides the floor,
    walls, two lamps, and the point light or point lights.

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/lampsLinks.html

    So study over the lighting and lamps material.  Review the
    Michael O'Rourke lamp tutorial that we have done in lab and that
    has been demonstrated in class too.

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/lights/lampLightingOct3rd.html

       shows the example lamp made up of
                 3 polygon cubes for the base of the lamp,
                 3 polygon cubes for the arms of the lamp,
                 1 NURBS cone for the lamp shade, and of course
                 a spot light to model the bulb of the lamp.

       The LAMP has different colors or textures for every Polygon Cube
       so you can SEE the pieces better.  I know it looks horrible
       to have a lamp base with a multicolored cube, a blue cube
       and a red cube followed by a gray arm, turgoise arm and granite
       or marble textured arm!  Not to mention a purple lamp shade!

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/lights/lampLightingOct3rd.html

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/lampsLinks.html

       We also covered this baseball bat example again today:

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/NURBS/baseballBatRevolve.html

       Create menu > CV Curve Tool  and  Surfaces menu > Revolve command

Mark