= Assignment 8 - Subdivision Surfaces = === Due Date: Thursday March 15th, 11:59PM === ~+Questions? Check out the [wiki:self:Assignment8Discussion Assignment 8 FAQ and discussion page].+~ In this assignment you will implement subdivision of a triangle mesh using a technique referred to as loop subdivision. Conceptually, this is very simple. In each stage of subdivision, every triangle of in the mesh is split into 4 triangles and every edge in the mesh is split into two edge connected by a new vertex. The difficulty in this assignment arises from the need to efficiently manipulate a mesh data structure to perform successive subdivision operations. == Download and build the starter code == 1. Begin by downloading the Assignment 8 starter code and latest version of the libST source [http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs148-07/assignments/assignment8/assignment8.zip here]. {{{Libst}}} has changed in this assignment. We've added a new class {{{STVector}}}, that should assist you with operations on 3-vectors. You will be performing many such operations in this assignment. 2. Build the code. In this project, you will be modifying {{{assignment8/subdiv.cpp}}}. In the {{{assignment8/}}} subdirectory we have placed two sample meshes {{{tetra.shp}}} (a tetrahedron) and {{{sphere.shp}}} (a sphere) for you to test your code on. Run the program using the command {{{subdiv mymeshfilename.shp}}} and you will see an image of the mesh rendered in wire frame on your screen. Notice that we've added some mouse controls that move the camera in this assignment, making it easier to view a 3D object. Dragging while holding the left mouse button rotates the camera around the object. Dragging with the right mouse button depressed zooms, and dragging with the center button depressed will dolly (translate) the camera. == Mesh Representation == http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs148-07/assignments/assignment8/facediagram.png http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs148-07/assignments/assignment8/splitdiagram.png