= Assignment 1 =

== PBRT Installation ==

I compiled PBRT on VS2005 at home.  There were alot of warnings about risky casts and deprecated C-lib stuff.  OpenEXR paths needed to be absolute instead of relative. 

One really annoying thing that took me a while to understand:  I was trying to invoke pbrt from within cygwin and set PBRT_SEARCHPATH with a unix style path.  Since pbrt uses win32 file open mechanisms it fails when given unix paths.  So to get it work you have to do alot of escaping to get a win32 style path into a cygwin environment variable.

== Rendering ==


I rendered most images in miniture (200x200) with only 2 samples for area light sources.  Most of the trouble spots I hit were because I kept getting the geometry backwards in my head when trying to specify various scene elements.  

== Experimentation  ==

No special experiments, just played around alot with the basics of transformation matrices and ways to provide location and orientation info for shapes.