Alias|Wavefront Software Support for IUB

Some useful links

• Alias | Wavefront's home page
• Avalon Archives - contains a variety of 3D objects and textures available for downloading. (Be sure objects are in Wavefront (.obj) format!)
• CICA's Wavefront Tutorial - by Brian Kaplan and others; complete only for model, property, and preview
• Graphics File Formats - maintained by Brian Kaplan; describes formats and suggests programs for converting between formats
• Unix Basics from the UCS Knowledge Base
• Unix: The Least You Need to Know - UCS Publication
• Software Tutorials - UCS Public Computing Consulting
• SGIs at IU - UWSG (Unix Workstation Support Group)

Wavefront Class Notes:

• Session 1 - Overview
  1. Wavefront Applications
  2. Overview of Wavefront Components
  3. Introduction to the SGI and Unix
  4. Customizing your Unix Environment for Wavefront
  5. Creating a new project in Director

• Session 2 - Wavefront Modeler
  1. Modeling Concepts
  2. Screen Layout and View Control
  3. Simple Shapes and Picking Objects
  4. Transformations and Properties
  5. Working with Groups
  6. Digitizing Polygons; Revolves & Extrudes
  7. Deformations
     Assignmentfor session 2

• Session 3 - Property Editor
  1. Property Screen Layout
  2. Material Properties
  3. Texture, Reflection, & Bump Mapping
  4. Image Utilities on the SGIs
  5. Lights

• Session 4 - Rendering Static Scenes

• Session 5 - Rendering Animated Scenes