I tried to get the second part of the homework working but it just wasn't havin it.  This one came out ok and i played around with the look at and the translate.

open gl is not so bad

So here are the two assignments.  the curve came out pretty easily but the coloring on the house is not so great,  all of the walls are there but from the angle that the camera is at you cannot see them.  I need to just paint both sides of the wall.

1.  The thing that I find the most interesting about the openGL stuff is how some of the process that the processor would normally do are now being done by the graphics card which is probably under utilized by most computer users.  I also thought that it was pretty cool that by pawning off some of the responsibilities onto the graphics hardware the machines are able to use less process and save battery overall, even if it is not that much.  I also think the it is cool that processing and python are open to utilizing some of the open gl stuff as well.

2. Some of the things are new in this program are the glEnable and frontface that say they are used for hidden surface removal, the way the polygons face and the way some calculations are done.  Also the glLight functions are new to this project.

here is the proof that open GL works on my machine, buyakashaw

Circles

These are 2 screen shots of my project.  Clearly I choose the circles.  The idea originally came from Anthony Mattox's website.  The color are random using HSV color.  The way that I went about doing this project was creating a circle object with a random X,Y, and radius value and then testing these values against the circles that have already been drawn to see if they are too close together, ie touching/overlapping.  If they passed the test then the circle was drawn.  These pictures have 5000 circles, the highest that I was able to get to was 6851, but because processing doesn't have a flush function(or i dont know it) i was never able to see it.  thank you come again