You all have card access to the building and Cave room. You can come in 24-7-365.
Check the Cave Calendar for reservations from other classes, demos, experiments, etc. You will not be able to work at the Cave room during reserved times, so check the Cave Calendar before heading over!
If you want to work at the Cave, and there's no other event going on in there, go to the CS137 CAVE Google Calendar. If nobody has signed up for the times you want to work, go to your personal Google Calendar and sign up for a 30 minute slot (you can sign up for a maximum of 3 30 minute slots in a row). By the way, since all of you in the class have access to this calendar to modify events, BE CAREFUL and don't move slots that other people has signed up for. People that have signed up take precedence to walk-ins, so SIGN UP!
Try to keep the room as tidy as possible. I know right now it's not a great example of tidiness, but with two whole classes happening this semester it'll get much worse if you don't do your part to clean up.
There's an official No-Food-No-Drink policy for the room but, if we are all civilized about it, you can bring a coffee, soda or the like to sip while you work. Avoid chips or other crumbly snacks. That stuff gets everywhere! The trash can is outside of the room for a reason. Don't leave empty cups or bottles around. Don't bring breakfast/lunch/dinner into the room. It's dark and cold with no windows anyway so, seat outside or in the beautiful entrance hall and rest your eyes for a while!
Since, most of the time, you'll be working in the actual Cave, as opposed to siting down in the computer monitors, leave your shoes and bags somewhere that don't interfere with people wanting to use the stations.
Always wear socks when you go into the Cave. The floor is another display screen, and sweaty feet don't really improve its already pretty dirty state.
You should bring in only JPG images to use in the Cave. They should be square and powers of 2 (256x256, 512x512, ...).
Images that you'd like to use as slides should be named slide*.jpg, where you change the * for any name you want. If you want a transparency mask for a slide, make a B&W image of the mask with the same size as the correspondent slide and name it alphamask*.jpg. For example alphamask-mycoolpic.jpg will be the mask for slide-mycoolpic.jpg.
There are some special images that need to be of a specific size (patterns*.jpg, color-swatch-table*.jpg, brushtips*.jpg). You should have all received an email with an example of each of those. Copy them into your favourite image editing software and make your own of each one of them, keeping the first part of the name intact so CavePainting knows what they are.
You cannot access the machine that runs CavePainting directly, and so we must transfer files in a two-step process in order to get them into a place where CavePainting can use them: first, we transfer them onto an FTP server, and then from the FTP server onto the machine that runs CavePainting.
You can bring your art work in three ways: USB memory stick, CD, DVD. If you have more than one image file, compress them onto a single zip file.
You can access the FTP folder from anywhere by going to the address ftp://cs137:goredsox@ftp.cs.brown.edu. If you go there from a Windows explorer window, you can just drag &drop stuff into it (like we explained above). Using a regular FTP client, you can connect to ftp.cs.brown.edu with the login cs137 and password goredsox.
Now let's put your stuff where CavePainting can reach it. Unfortunately, CavePainting cannot access that FTP folder, so we need to move it onto the machine that runs CavePainting.
While in CavePainting you can take snapshots of the stuff in the front wall so you can bring examples to class or show them somewhere. All your snapshots are saved on your personal folder. To get them out of there you have to basically email them to yourself. Follow these instructions: