CS 348C Software

Class software includes the following:

• polly: a simple custom program that allows the students to visualize and manipulate parametric polynomial curves in space.
• scurvy: a simple custom program that allows the students to visualize and manipulate B-spline curves in space.
• SoftImage: the SoftImage package contains a large collection of executables, from a production quality modeling and animation system, to a ray tracer, a particle system simulator, and standalone utilities for image compositing, format conversions, and much more.
• quatdemo: an interactive tool for demonstrating the composition of unit quaternions and how they represent rotations.
• vwtree: a simple tree creation and rendering software. The distribution of vwtree available here can only execute on Silicon Graphics workstations, and includes on-line documentation and sample input files. Also, it is a scaled down version of the system documented in Weber, Jason, and Joseph Penn. Creation and Rendering of Realistic Trees. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '95: 119-128.