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CS 488: Meeting 3 – Triangles

January 25, 2022 by Chris Johnson. Filed under graphics-3d, lectures, spring-2022.

Dear students,

These Tuesday lectures are not scripted. I want our discussion to be centered around your questions and confusion. We’ll probably write a fair bit of code together. In case your questions dry up, I will prepared a list of things that I think we could talk about. Here’s today’s list:

• Complete a peer instruction exercise.
• Review quiz.
• Animate rotation and discuss frame rates.
• Rotate using the mouse.
• Model and render a letter.
• Model a square with a hole using the discard command.
• Plot points using the mouse.
• Plot triangles using the mouse.
• Discuss first programming assignment.

But I’m happy to abandon this list in order to explore your concerns.

Here’s your TODO list:

• Follow a Blender tutorial and model something. Upload your model to SketchFab, and share a link in the #friddday channel before the end of Friday.
• Review chapter 2.
• Ensure your renderers work.
• Confirm that you have access to Slack and a full member of the GitHub organization.

See you next time!

Sincerely,