Luxo Lamp, Lamps, Spotlights, Point Lights - LAMP Project links...

Assignment due Monday, November 2nd, 2009 by 10 p.m.

1. Specifications for the assignment clarified: Expanded requirements and specifications and assignment details. Email note from October 26th.

2. 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.
      
   You will need to enter the following:  
                                            User ID:   mayatuts   
                                           Password:   morourke
   

   Freezing cold - the need to FREEZE TRANSFORMATIONS with Maya to get rid of a non-uniform scale in a parent node.

3. LAMP with SIX POLYGONAL CUBES and one NURBS Cone example.

4. Avoid NURBS CUBES for your LAMP base. Use 3 Polygonal CUBES! Do NOT use NURBS CUBES for the base! Much easier to use Polygon CUBES.

5. Decay, Intensity, Point Light and Spot Light Attributes. Includes links to 3 different Michael O'Rourke tutorials on Lights, Rendering and Casting Shadows.

6. Slide show of examples of Maya Lighting with some baseball bats and suspended spotlights.

7. October 6th, 2008 Outliner Window PhotoShop enhanced snapshot of the Maya scene with 2 lamps, 2 point lights, 1 baseball bat, one wine glass and 2 spot lights (inside the lamps NURBS Cones, of course).

8. Links to lots of JPEG example files, if you want to see them one by one.

9. Snapshots of Fall 2008 student examples for the Baseball Bat, Wine Glass, Two Lamps homework assignment.

10. REVOLVE - Making a BASEBALL BAT by revolving a PROFILE CURVE that was created using the CV Curve Tool.

11. February 6th to February 11th, 2009: Wine Glass illuminated by a Luxo Lamp - classes 11, 12 and 13 from Spring 2009.

12. What are the requirements for your Lamps, Baseball Bat, Wine Glass assignment? Due date: Monday, November 2nd by 10 p.m.

     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.  
    

13. Specifications for the assignment clarified: Expanded requirements and specifications and assignment details. Email note from October 26th.

14. Impossible to find LAMP with SIX POLYGONAL CUBES and one NURBS Cone example.