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Scott Le           Daniel Hernandez      Marlena Frank

Assignment:Create a Tri-Mesh editor which allows drag-and-drop of edges and also allows triangles to be merged. Make sure the triangles are oriented properly.

Please click here for instructions on Using the Tri-Mesh Editor

Assignment: From the triangle mesh created in Part I, enable the user to create a corner table from a created image.

Enable the user to click on a corner and a small ball appears on the "corner". Then allow the user to traverse the triangle mesh by using different triangle operations.

Enabled the user to remove the most recent triangle added by pressing the 'U' button.

Assignment: Implement the Laplace smoothing step in which each interior vertex is moved by a given average of its neighbors. Keep all border vertices fixed, and repeat the process many times. Tell how quickly it converges, and how the choice of the dividing step affects the rate of convergence.

Assignment: Find out what happens whenever you smooth the border vertices. Try to use a four-point subdivision method to find the new location of each of the border vertices and demonstrate if it succeeds or fails.

Assignment: Implement a mesh traversal to assign each vertex a graph distance from the border, where border vertices have distance of 0. Display this distance as a change in color and of height and display the mesh in a 3D view.

Assignment: Make a copy of the mesh with negative z values & reversed orientation. Glue the two meshes together with correct opposite information.

Assignment: For each vertex, cache its vertex normal, and then use the normals to render the mesh in smooth (Gouraud) shading mode.

Assignment: Create a mesh with 50-100 vertices with one hole, and one finger-like structure. Give an animation demonstrating the different functions used.

Enabled the camera to adjust automatically whenever the user traverses the mesh so that the current triangle is always facing the viewer.