Mindful Musings

I have spent most of this week (amidst mouthfuls of turkey and other goodies) trying to understand our second last OpenGL project. We are supposed to render a VW bug (co-ordinates were provided to us) and a bunny, put them on a randomly generated landscape, add a few other GLUT objects and then texture them all using the different modulation equations that OpenGL has built in. I had thought that the landscape (with fractal subdivision method) would be the hardest part of the project. Boy was I wrong! This is probably the hardest project in this class so far. There is a myriad of documentation out there which talks about these things, but none are very specific (including OpenGL’s own website) and I am swimming. I am hoping to get the VW and the bunny drawn tonight and then worry about textures again tomorrow. I can just fudge it, but that goes against my grain and I would just be copping out of hard work (and my grade would reduce).
In other news, I did NOT go shopping with Jennifer this week. There was nothing I needed. Jennifer did end up spending a little bit, but she might be taking some of it back when she is done trying things on. I have been meaning to write another skin for this site but the work load has been too much. After school ends on the 15th of December, I might actually participate in the CSS contest that WordPress is having. It will be good practice and I will be able to make my site look interesting to me again. I have had someone offer me an LJ code and I might start a sister blog over at LJ with every post being mapped there as well. I can do that now with shameless plug my new blogPost 1.0
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Have to go get some food…I am starved!:lol: