The course syllabus is current as of December 29, 2006. The course will be based on OpenGL, developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. in collaboration with Microsoft.

Your GTA, Rongrong Wang, Email:

Class Listserv (CS4204_11716@listserv.vt.edu)

Local Pages

• Basic OpenGL Elements
  
• Basic OpenGL Drawing Examples
  
• White Rectangle
  
• Setting up MSC++ for OpenGL
  
• Linking OpenGL programs in MSC++ 6 and .net
  
• Computing a Viewing Transformation
• Foley-van Dam Viewing API Demo (D. Bowman)
  
• Getting Started with OpenGL and Glut
  
• OpenGL Function Calls
  
• glu Function Calls
  
• glut Function Calls
  
• Lighting Functions
  
• Defining and displaying a master object
  
• OpenGL Viewing Demo
• Cyrus-Beck Clipping
• Newman and Sproull Clipping
• Liang-Barsky Clipping
• Matt Campbell's ray tracing talk

Sketches of

• The OpenGL Viewing API - Overview
• The Foley-vanDam Viewing API - Overview
• The Foley-vanDam Viewing API - Steps 1-2
• The Foley-vanDam Viewing API - Step 3
• Shearing
• Generalized perspective projection
• Default viewbox for parallel projection
• NDC space view of parallel projection
• A frustum for perspective projection
• NDC space view of perspective projection
• Perspective projections
• Axonometric projections
• Oblique projections
• The Bresenham midpoint algorithm

Remote OpenGL Links

• OpenGL Files from Microsoft
  
• OpenGL Utility Toolkit 3.7.6 (Nate Robins)
  
• Open GL News and Developer Information
  
• OpenGL Documentation Sources
  
• OpenGL Redbook (Version 1.1)
  
• OpenGL Bluebook (Version 1.0)
  
• OpenGL gl_ and glu_ function documentation
  
• GLUT Programming Interface API, Version 3
  
• GLUI User Interface Library
  
• SIGRAPH OpenGL Tutorial Programs
  
• Edward Angel's book examples

Geometry

• Dan Sunday's Geometry Algorithms
• Practice Projections 1
• Practice Projections 2
• Practice Projections 3
• Practice Projections 4
• Practice Projections 5
• Practice Projections 6
• Practice Projections 7

Assignments

• Assignment 1 due February 6, 2007

Projects

• Project 1 due March 29, 2007
• Project 2 due May 1, 2007

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