Each material class inherits soy.materials.Material and sets a default ambient, diffuse, specularity, and shininess. The colors should use the default soy.colors.* (or add new instances) and a brief pydoc string for each new material class should describe what it's intended to look like.

An example can be found at http://svn.pysoy.org/trunk/pysoy/src/materials/S.pxi

Examples for these default materials include Chrome, Flesh, Emerald, Granite, Copper, Obsidian, Snow, and Syrup. Materials should cover a wide range of colors and shininess, student is given free reign to implement her/his own ideas. Classes should be listed in alphabetical order and in files named by the first letter of their name (such as S.pxi). See http://svn.pysoy.org/trunk/pysoy/src/colors/ for what this looks like.

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Commit the work to http://svn.pysoy.org/, attach your diff(s) to this task, and contact the ghop-python mailing list.

Relevant webpages: - http://www.falloutsoftware.com/tutorials/gl/gl8.htm

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I've got a doubt about the example provided for steel. Isn't the specular highlight the colour of the light source itself ? How did it end up as purple ?

Someone was playing around with it. It does not look like steel.

Here is the diff. And the pics of the materials are over here http://shriphani.com/pics/main.php

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Shriphani's work shows an eye for detail and has done a fantastic job with this task.

Marking this as completed. w00t!