Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:11:10 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-11-fall@uni.edu
Subject: Quiz Wednesday, review of last two classes, next assignment...

Hello Maya students,

    Review of Friday's and Monday's classes - next assignment -
                                           quiz on Wednesday -

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

       is linked from

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

    Quiz FIVE will be on Wednesday.

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

           material will be used for some of the questions for Quiz #5,
           which will help you start to get prepared for your
           Lamps, Baseball Bat and Wine Glass modeling assignment.

    We did modeling a LAMP today and last Friday in class.

http://3dtutorials.michaelorourke.com/tutorials/Mod/More/HiersMoreLamp5.html

   Michael O'Rourke tutorial: A Simple Lamp Model is the basis for how to
      create your LAMP. We covered this during the October 16th hands-on
      class and the October 19th review of that hands-on class.

>From the More on Hierarchies tutorial by Michael O'Rourke.

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    Mark

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

What are the requirements for your Lamps, Baseball Bat, Wine Glass 
assignment? To be officially assigned soon.

  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.
       ii.  Polygonal Cubes for the 3 arms of the lamp.
      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?  :-)

  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.

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

  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.

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