Skandha4 Tutorial Functions

Note, these tutorials can only be run on SGI computers that have skandha4 installed. Currently, that is all the UW Department of Biological Structure T170 lab SGIs.

Source code for these tutorials is in /usr/local/shared_html/skandha4-demos/sk-tutr.

First initalize tutorials,
then run as many as you like from the following list,
then end tutorials to kill the skandha4 window.

After clicking on a tutorial in the following list the display should show something. To go to the next tutorial or to end the tutorials you first need to type "x" in the skandha4 display window.


Mouse-controlled cube
Use mouse to control display
Hit 'o' in graphics window to go to original display
Hit 'x' in graphics window to exit
Hit 'r' in graphics window to rotate
Hit 'm' in graphics window to move
Fly-through cube
Use mouse to control display
Keyboard characters in graphics window:
Hit 'o'  go to original display
Hit 'x'  to exit
Hit 'q' for left rudder
Hit 'w' for right rudder
Hit 'a' for reverse thrust
Hit 's' for forward thrust
Hit 'z' for zero thrust and rudder
Rotate and zoom a cube intuitively (ben)
Use mouse to control display
Keyboard characters in graphics window:
Hit 'o'  go to original display
Hit 'x'  to exit
Hit 'q' for left rudder
Hit 'w' for right rudder
Hit 'a' for reverse thrust
Hit 's' for forward thrust
Hit 'z' for zero thrust and rudder
Fly through a cube intuitively (ben)
Use mouse to control display
Keyboard characters in graphics window:
Hit 'o'  go to original display
Hit 'x'  to exit
Hit 'q' for left rudder
Hit 'w' for right rudder
Hit 'a' for reverse thrust
Hit 's' for forward thrust
Hit 'z' for zero thrust and rudder
Wiggling cube
Hit 'x' in graphics window to exit
Eight rotating cubes
Hit 'x' in graphics window to exit
Eight rotating cubes that also individually rotate
Use mouse to control display
Hit 'x' in graphics window to exit

Apparent bugs

Test functions

Test