Welcome to the blog for the course Mathematical Visualization at TU Berlin for the winter semester 2014-2015. There is still a web-site for the course but the main focus will be here. In this first post I’ll give you installation instructions for the Uebung.

First you need to install Oracle-Java  and as IDE eclipse at your computer. You need further the version control programs git and subversion. You probably have to install git and svn plugins for eclipse. You can find tutorials for you operating system and your eclipse version all over the internet. You can find an installation guide for git here and for the subversive-plugin, here.

Download jReality with git, as described  in this tutorial. But instead of using the standard jReality, clone my version of jReality:

git://gitorious.org/jreality/andres-jreality.git

instead of

  git://gitorious.org/jreality/jreality.git

Homework (until 28.10.):

For your first homework you have to visit the jReality developer tutorial and work through the tutorial examples presented there.  Almost all have a “Run as Java webstart” button which should cause the example to run as an Java application on your machine.  You’ll be asked to allow access to your machine before it can run — I recommend accepting, the code is safe. If you have problems running the webstarts, please write me an e-mail.

Write a simple “Hello World” program within the jReality framework.