Old Announcements : 15-462

• Late demo for assignment 3
  For those of you who haven't done your demo, you can demo you program at the Wean cluster from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm this Monday.
• Signup sheet for assignment 3 demo is on the web.
• If you're interested in game programming and VR, here's an interesting software platform you can look at:
  CaveUT is a set of open-source modifications which allow the use of the high-powered video game Unreal Tournament in a multi-screen display. It is already running in the PC-based "cave" at UPMC and in the Earth Theater at the Carnegie. Unreal Tournament has the flexibility to serve as an efficient software platform for virtual reality applications. For more information, please go to http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~jacobson/ut/CaveUT.html
• Assignment 3 is on the web. It's linked from the Assignments and Homework page.
• For animated-film-lovers: The Adventures of Prince Achmed
  This rare and beautiful film from 1926 is one of the very first animated feature films. And there's never been anything like it. Loosely based on A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, and created by 23-year-old Lotte Reiniger, the story is told with amazingly detailed silhouettes. She experimented with paper cutouts, multi-plane camera techniques, as well as wax and sand on the film stock itself. The silhouettes involve Aladdin and his lamp, a magical horse, a sorcerer, a princess and an ogress. While worth seeing for the novelty alone, this rarely seen film is a masterpiece in the history of cinema. (Directed by Lotte Reiniger; Germany; 1926; 66 min) Melwood Screening Room, Oakland: Fri. Nov. 9 @ 7:30; Sat. Nov. 10 @ 5:30, Sun. Nov. 11 @ 3:00
• A new animation for assignment 2 is up. It should have all the problems from the first animation fixed. It's linked from the Assignments and Homework page.
  
• We'll have a midterm this Thursday (10/18). The material of the midterm would cover all lectures except this Tuesday's.
• Late demo for assignment 2
  For those of you who want to demo assignment 2, you can demo your program at the Wean cluster during the TA hours this Monday or Wednesday. If you have any problem with the demo time, please contact us. Also, please submit your files once you finish your assignment. We'll use the date of your files as your submission date.
• Please sign up for assignment 2 demo.
• Technical Opportunities in Nvidia:
  WHERE: Rangos Hall, University Center.
  WHEN: Tue Sept 25 10am - 5pm (free food 11-12)
  Nvidia, the world's top graphics hardware company, designers of the graphics and audio chips for the forthcoming XBOX game console, will be on campus showing their hardware and interviewing for software and hardware engineers (BS and up) on Tuesday Sept 25. Information about the job openings and the event are at http://centauri.pc.cc.cmu.edu/cfdocs/toc/2001/index.html
• The movie of the animations is up. There's a link to it in the Assignments and Homework page.
• Sign up sheet
for assignment 1 demo is on th web. Please contact us as soon as possible if you can't sign up on the web.
• Makefiles info:
  There have been a lot of questions regarding the building of the assignment using Makefiles. Just to clarify the basic of Makefiles, here's a link to a tutorial about Makefiles taken from the 15-412 web page. Makefile tutorial
• Assignment 1 correction:
  In the assignment 1 distributed last week, there is a warning paragraph for using fdesign. We found that we don't have the program now (thanks Rob). We suggest you use the fluid program to modify your user interface. An updated version of assignment 1 has been put on the assignment web page. Sorry for the mistake.
• Here is a web pointer to the book set that should have been ordered: http://www.aw.com/product/0,2627,0201748924,00.html.
  You can order individual copies from Addison Wesley or from Amazon or other on-line retailers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201748924/qid%3D999724036/104-5821320-0879156
• The bookstore believes that they have now placed the order correctly (3rd time is the charm, I hope). The combined package should arrive today (Monday 9/10) sometime after 1:30pm. You will need to return the book and primer that you may have purchased already and buy the new package. The bookstore says that they will take the book and/or primer back even though it is past the official date for returning books. We're very sorry for this (ongoing) hassle.