CMSI 371, Spring 2021 - John David N. Dionisio, PhD

CMSI 371

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Brightspace: Where you can access recordings of synchronous class sessions and supplementary asynchronous content, as well as check your grades
We will use GitHub Classroom to manage and submit assignments
Some information regarding being fully online

Assignment 0204 extended to 0205 Fun with their 3D library, part 1 Setup
- Their library is three.js
- Acquire your own React-wrapped three.js playground for personal experimentation and exploration
Assignment 0218 extended to 0223 Fun with their 3D library, part 2 Setup
Assignment 0311 Pixel-level primitives and filters Setup
- Sample primitives and filters, wrapped in a demo web application
- Color Science from Khan Academy’s Pixar in a Box: Pay particular attention to the RGB color model module and its accompanying practice exercise
Assignment 0406a Static scene based on our polygon mesh library
- Need some inspiration? Check out some of Ed Catmull and Fred Parke’s early work from the University of Utah, 1972 (h/t Megan Reyes!)
Assignment 0406b partially extended—see below Our own matrix library
- The “Project the Matrix” section/deliverable (“Orthographic or perspective projection can be applied to the scene”) can be deferred to Assignment 0420
- i.e., The matrices themselves are due (they are spelled out in this PDF) but their usage does not need to be coded up until Assignment 0420
Assignment 0420 extended to 0422 Our lights, our camera…
Assignment 0506 extended to 0508 …Your action!