CS410

Computer Graphics

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Schedules, Etc.

• Basic Course Information
• Course Schedule
• Homework Schedule
• Text Site
• Lecture Notes Angel Lecture Notes

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Programming Assignments

MP1  MP2  MP3  MP4  MP5  MP6  MP7 MP8  MP9  MP10  MP11  MP12  MP13

Term Programming Assignment Stanford's Video Game Project. Harvard University's Computer Graphics Projects

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Study Guides

• Midterm Study Guide

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Handouts

Handout 0 - OpenGL Setup for VC++ Sample OpenGL/GLUT Programs 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 1g Handout 2 - Saving OpenGL images as .jpg files Handout 3 - Projection Handout 4 - Vertex Transformations Handout 5 - Annotated OpenGL Program Handout 6 - Display Lists Handout 7 - Maintaining Aspect Ratio Handout 8 - Some Miscellaneous Glut Commands Handout 9 - Quadrics Handout 10 - 2D transformations the hard way Handout 11 - 3D transformations the hard way Handout 12 - Displaying & Time Related Callbacks Handout 13 - Trigonometric Basics Handout 14 - gluLookAt Example Handout 15 - Perspective Example Handout 16 - The Zen of Transformations Handout 17 - Order of Transformations Example Handout 18 - Sound Programming in C/C++ Handout 19 - Concave and Convex Polygons Handout 20 - Lighting Primer Handout 21 - Shadows

Handout 22 - Radiosity Handout 23 - Alpha Handout 24 - Fog Handout 25 - Texture Mapping Handout 26 - A Basic Object Structure Handout 27 - Collision Detection Handout 28 - More Collision Detection Handout 29 - Name Stack and Picking Handout 30 - Color Coding Handout 31 - Using gluOrtho2D and glFrustum Together Handout 32 - Winding and Culling Handout 33 - Transparent Objects Handout 34 - Mirroring and Stenciling Handout 35 - 2D Bezier Curves & Bezier Surfaces Handout 36 - Nurbs Handout 37 - Sky Sphere Handout 38 - Game Timing Handout 39 - Quaternions Handout 40 - Explosion Simulation and Stippling Handout 41 - Examples of Interest Handout 42 - Flying a camera Handout 43 - Quaternions and Cubes

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Tutorials

Personal OpenGL Tutorial from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Java Personal OpenGL Tutorial from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee OpenGL Programming Tutorials OpenGL in Visual C++ Tutorials (free registration for these) Tutorials from www.lighthouse3d.com

OpenGL Tutorial (Nate Robins) OpenGL Tutorial (Tulane) OpenGL Tutorial (GameDev) OpenGL in 4 weeks

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Glut

Glut Documentation GLUT for Win32 The GLUT toolkit specification SGI - GLUT - OpenGL Utility Toolkit GLUI GLUI User Interface Library

GLUT for Win32 dll, lib and header file GLUT source code distribution Pre-compiled Win32 for Intel GLUT 3.7 DLLs for Windows 95 & NT Glut Callback functions

OpenGL Function Reference HTMLized Man Pages The OpenGL WWW Pages (Documentation) The Compaq OpenGL WWW Pages (Documentation) OpenGL.org OpenGL Developer FAQ and TroubleShooting Guide OpenGL Programming Guide OpenGL/GLUT Articles by by Miguel Angel Sepúlveda The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) Programming Interface API V3 Boilerplate C++ and C OpenGL Programs with Makefiles mkOpenGLJPEGImage Class local

The OpenGL v1.1 libraries (Microsoft HTTP) Angel Examples The Red Book programs Some OpenGL Examples OpenGL Tutor Woo/Neider/Davis/Shreiner Examples OpenGL Game Development Mailing List FAQ Advanced OpenGL Game Development OpenGL Demos OpenGL State Diagram  OpenGL FAQ pdf format OpenGL Pitfalls  LibTarga library

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Support Links

Textbook support by the author, Edward Angel www.opengl.org, the OpenGL home page OpenGL tutors for windows by Nate Robins SGI OpenGL NeHe Productions Tutorials Huge List of Graphics Resources GLT can be used as an object oriented interface to OpenGL RayTracing Programs Function calls - OpenGL Glu Glut GLVU - C++/OpenGL/GLUT based viewer library Doxygen Matrix Class The Fast Light Toolkit demos (executables/0.9MB zip file) more Online Documentation and Resources

Models and Textures Nasa Graphics Some other graphics Texture Station Public 3D Archive Protein Data Bank Image Processing Learning Resources RGB to Color Name Mapping Giant Texture Library NeHe Texture Loader File Formats File Formats Wotsit

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Some Interesting Examples

idle button on/off button color change button write buffer pendulum All the OpenGL primitives bitmap test display .jpg

mouse active/passive motion callback examples follow the cursor annotated example menus and submenus simple 3D example trackball example Samples from S. Buss 9-Tuple w/Trackball

Rotating cube and trackball Rotating cube/color interpolation Rotating teapot Multiple viewports in a single context NII logo Robot Four Textures Bitmap with Rotation

Glut Plane Fun Examples Angel Sphere Recursive Cube Robot Arm GlutMech Luminous Objects Dinglearm Gears

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POV Ray

• User Documentation pdf format
• download LViewPro (local)
• download POV Ray 3.5 (local)
• download Moray V3.3 For Windows (Build 7015, 6.3 MB) (local)
• download Moray V3.3a For Windows Maintenance Release (local)
• POV Ray Home
• The Official Moray Homepage

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Course Related Sites

Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques Handy Mathematics Facts for Graphics Graphics Math Review from Georgia Tech. Graphics Gems Repository Gentle introduction into the mathematics behind 3D geometries Graphics File Formats Linear Algebra Online 3D Engines List ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings c o m p u t e r g r a p h i c s e d u c a t i o n ACM Transactions on Graphics IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Animusic - Unbelievable Features of TrueType and OpenType Fonts NCSA Virtual Reality Facilities Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques ScreenRip32 Programming Tips Game of Life Computer Graphics Links Game Development Toolkits & Libraries Programming OpenGL with VB (local) The Wizardy of ID Lots of links Computer Graphics Applets