[csu540-f05-rpf] Programming assignment PA3 - Transform the solar system

[Robert Futrelle]

I'll get the assignment and readings updated soon, but in the 
meantime, you should know, roughly, the following:

1. Programming Assignment #3, PA3, will be to build and use linear 
transform functionality and apply it to your solar system.  You'll 
need to be able to rotate and translate and scale and combine all of 
them into single transforms, and then view the result just as you 
have already in PA2.  The planets will further rotated around the sun 
and for extras, moons can be rotated around planets.  So you can 
start now building some linear xforms. From

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle/teaching/csu540f2005/examps/index.html

follow the link to he source code for the four "geometry" classes at

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle/teaching/csu540f2005/examps/examps/geom/

Some of them are done, others need to be fleshed out by you.

The full details of PA3 will be specified and posted this week

2. Readings.  At a minimum, Secs. 3.3, 3.6, 9.1, 9.2.  I will be 
putting together an additional lecture and reading sequence beyond 
these. Stay tuned.

According to a friend, there is person at NASA whose official title 
is "Master of the Universe" (there's a Deputy Master too).  That's 
the person we need to get our solar system moved around.  I have not 
been able to confirm the existence of such a person at NASA.

  - Prof. Futrelle