FINAL PROJECT -- CSE 167 -- readme.txt
VAN GOGH MUSEUM
Name:  Neera Aggarwal



Description:

My final project is a rather basic simple one, however it still took me a good 
while to complete it.  It is your basic museum room, that looks more "pretty" than
anything else.  It was definitely not easy to make the room exactly how I had pictured 
it to look, but in the end this was what I had been imagining since I started.  My favorite
artist is Vincent Van Gogh, hence all of the artwork in the room are his most
popular pieces.  There are 3 framed paintings on the wall, and one painting that is used 
for the  carpet on the floor.  The 3 paintings, floor, ceiling, and door on the back wall 
are all done using texture maps that I found on the web.  The room is lit by two lights,
one that gives off white light and the other that gives off red light.  You are able 
to toggle these lights on and off, and when both lights are off there is ambient light
that allows you to still see the room faintly.  The viewer can view the room in all 
directions, including just the ceiling or just the floor (up and down).  My favorite is
the texture map on the ceiling, I think it really adds to the room since it relates to 
the paintings and includes just the right colors.  I had originally planned to add
some furniture to the room but decided that I liked the way it looked already, and didn't 
want to mess with it any further.  One problem that I ran into that was bugging me forever 
was why the texture maps I used would warp when I would change viewing directions, and I 
finally resolved this problem with a simple OpenGL command 
glHint( GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT,GL_NICEST);.    Other than that I 
use basic Open_GL commands, including mipmapping for all texture maps.  I use a total of 6 
texture maps and read these into an array, binding each one individually when I am ready to 
map it onto the room.

Controls:

- "Arrow keys" control viewpoint.
- Press "R" or "r" to increase or decrease rate of movement(respectively).
- Press "1"    to toggle Light 1 on  and off.
- Press "2"    to toggle Light 2 on and off.

Comments:  It was fun, but I’m so happy I’m done!!! =)