Syllabus --- Computer graphics

Exam 3, due Friday, Mar. 12, 1999

• Text: Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL
• Author: Edward Angel
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
• ISBN: 0-201-85571-2

There will be at least 5 exams given over the internet. The final grade will the the result of averaging the curved grades for these exams. Graduate students will be required to read a research paper on computer graphics and deliver a 10 minute talk at the end of the semester.

• Rasters, 2 and 3- dimensional graphics.
• Two dimensional programming with OpenGL. Event-driven graphics programs.
• Three-dimensional concepts. Projective geometry and transformations. Descriptions of three-dimensional objects.
• Viewing three dimensional objects.
• Algorithms

Prerequisites: Some knowledge of C++ and object oriented programming. You will need access to OpenGL to do the programming assignments. It is available for various platforms, and a version will be built on the Sun systems for people unable to do development on their home systems.

Links

• Open GL Home Page (has links for Open GL for the Macintosh)
• Comprehensive OpenGL Tutorial
• Mesa Home page (Open GL source for Linux machines).
• GLUT source code
  GLUT is the OpenGL toolkit --- useful for learning and programming in it.
• Open GL tutorial
• Downloadable tutorial (pdf format)
• POVRAY Ray tracing package for many platforms
• Flight Gear Flight Simulator (uses OpenGL)
• Moonlight 3D (a free modeling package for Linux).
• Linux Artists Home Page
• Computer Graphics Home Page

If you wish to use OpenGL on the Sun systems, you must configure your account to look in Dr. Smith's lib directory for the libraries.

The OpenGL libraries (with GLU and GLUT) will be in /home/jsmith/lib and the include files will be in /home/jsmith/include. Here is an example of the command needed to compile a program:

gcc  -O3 -I/usr/openwin/include \
-I/home/jsmith/include -DSHM \
 -DSOLARIS_2_4_BUG PROGRAM.c \
-lglut -lMesaGLU -lMesaGL \
-lm -L/usr/openwin/lib \
-L/home/jsmith/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXmu -lXi