This week I was able to finish a version of the torus that was close to accurate. I plan to do more work to develop a more accurate model. Not only are we defining a rounded volume in Cartesian Space, but we are also only using points, so in order to get a rounded shape, the resolution has to be very high. This is not really an option because too many points results in difficulties in rendering. We discussed ways of constructing the desired geometry as a function over R3.
We also spent some time preparing for the PICSciE (Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering)Â presentations that we would be acting in as TA's for in the following weeks. The first two (the next week and the one after) will be an Introduction to Python Programming and an Introduction to NumPy respectively. I can't wait to help in these classes next week!