Our installation steps for point2mesh: see https://github.com/ranahanocka/point2mesh for normal steps 

All  steps were done in an anaconda prompt

1. cloned normally

2. 
when using the `conda env create -f environment.yml `command, It appears that the version of pytorch3d required 
is no longer available, so we removed that from the environment file, ran the env create command without it, then
manually installed a later version of pytorch using the installation instructions at

https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytorch3d

	a. 	we did not create a new environment for pytorch3d as mentioned in the pytorch 3d github, we activated 
		the resulting point2mesh environment and ran the 
	   	`conda install -c pytorch pytorch=1.7.1 torchvision cudatoolkit=10.2` and
	   	`conda install -c fvcore -c iopath -c conda-forge fvcore iopath` commands.
	b.	The CUB build time dependency mentioned in the pytorch3d github doesn't appear to be available
		anymore either, so we manually installed a version mentioned in the github (CUB 1.10.0) using
		`conda install -c conda-forge cub=1.10`

3. 
we did the steps mentioned in the github to install the Manifold Software. we made a directory called code in the 
top level of one of my drives, so the path is now "W:/code/..." we cd there and follow the Maninfold Installation 
steps 
	a. 	cloned normally
	b. 	we had to conda install a version of cmake into my environment to run this
		`conda install -c anaconda cmake`
	c.	running `make` produced an error saying 
		"'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
		operable program or batch file. "
		so we conda installed a version of make using
		`conda install -c anaconda make`
	d. 	running `make` now produces
		"make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop."
		after brief research, it was decided that running make would have no effect on the
		configuration and would only check if things were 'in order', so we continued. 
	e.	changed the line in options.py to reflect the new location of the manifold software. namely
		`MANIFOLD_DIR = r'~/code/Manifold/build'`
		to
		`MANIFOLD_DIR = r'W:/code/Manifold/build'`
4. 
we moved on to the 
`bash ./scripts/get_data.sh`
running this resulted in a long output that ended with
`tar: data.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now`

However, the data appeared to be downloaded anyway, so we continued.

5.
we tried to run 
`bash ./scripts/examples/giraffe.sh`
but received 
```  
  File "main.py", line 30
    print(f'number of parts {part_mesh.n_submeshes}')
                                                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
./scripts/examples/giraffe.sh: line 2: --initial-mesh: command not found
./scripts/examples/giraffe.sh: line 3: --save-path: command not found
./scripts/examples/giraffe.sh: line 4: --iterations: command not found
```

We are going to continue trying to find fixes to the issues, in the meantime, we have opened up an issue on the
github page at: https://github.com/ranahanocka/point2mesh/issues/25