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Computer Graphics OpenGL

The document provides information about recommended and supplemental references for a computer graphics course, including textbooks on OpenGL and computer graphics. It also lists computing facilities available to students for assignments, including a transaction lab with OpenGL examples. Finally, it outlines the course topics, which include graphics hardware, mathematics, modeling, rendering, and software packages.

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Computer Graphics OpenGL

The document provides information about recommended and supplemental references for a computer graphics course, including textbooks on OpenGL and computer graphics. It also lists computing facilities available to students for assignments, including a transaction lab with OpenGL examples. Finally, it outlines the course topics, which include graphics hardware, mathematics, modeling, rendering, and software packages.

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Other Important Information

RECOMMENDED (OPTIONAL) TEXTBOOKS:


1. OpenGL Programming Guide, 5th Edition: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 2.0, Addison-Wesley, 2006. 2. OpenGL Reference Manual, 4th Edition: The Official Reference Document to OpenGL, Version 1.4, Addison-Wesley, 2004.

OTHER SUPPLEMENTAL REFERENCES:


1. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition in C, James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes, Addison-Wesley, 1990 (Reprinted with corrections, July 1997). 2. Introduction to Computer Graphics, J.D. Foley, A. van Dam, S.K. Feiner, J.F. Hughes, and R.L. Philips, Addison-Wesley, 1994. 3. Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL, Edward Angel, Addison-Wesley, 1997 (Reprinted with corrections, January 2000). 4. OpenGL Programming Guide, Jackie Neider et al., Addison-Wesley, 1993. 5. OpenGL Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley, 1992. 6. Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, Andrew S. Glassner, Morgan Kaufmann (two volumes), 1995. 7. 3D Computer Graphics, Alan Watt, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Some special events such as graphics video demonstration and visitors' research presentation in graphics may be held during this semester. The instructor will make announcements here when such events happen. Other important announcements relevant to this course such as the change of assignment due dates or exam dates will also be posted here whenever necessary. Please pay attention to these announcements as we will be updating them on the daily basis.

COMPUTING FACILITIES:
The programming assignments will make use of Unix and PC facilities. In particular, we will use the Windows NT Transaction lab. at Department of Computer Science (Rm. 2114 and Rm. 2126). You should be able to access the website of NT Transaction lab for frequent asked questions about the lab facilities and other relevant programming issues. You should have a NT account at CS Department. Students with access to PCs at home

with the compatible computing environment will likely be able to work on some or all of the assignments at home. Our system manager has already set up your account. Please refer to this document that explains how to get your user ID. You can also find a similar document at the website of NT Transaction lab. If you still have problems in accessing our facilities in the Transaction lab, please email to [email protected].

OPENGL PROGRAMMING GUIDE AND ENVIRONMENTS:


NT Transaction lab on the second floor of Computer Science Building is available for CSE 328 students to conduct their course assignments and projects. If you need a NT account, please talk to the instructor! Most of OpenGL examples appeared in various reference books are available on-line. The system manager of our Transaction lab has managed to download OpenGL examples from several publicly-available websites and put them under appropriate directories in order to help CSE 328 students to access OpenGL examples electronically and easily. Please note that, these examples are located in H:\courses\cse328\pkg directory. In general, they come from different sources. In particular, the directory: "H:\courses\cse328\pkg\Opengl examples\Edward Angel second edition" contains all the examples and source codes that have been downloaded from Edward Angel (who is the author of a book entitled : Interactive Computer Graphics A Top Down Approach with OpenGL Second Edition)'s web site (the ftp site is ftp.cs.unm.edu under pub/angel/BOOK in case you are interested in getting more information regarding his book and examples in the first edition, etc.); the directory: "H:\courses\cse328\pkg\Opengl examples\sgi\opengl11" contains OpenGL examples and source codes appeared in the book (OpenGL Programming Guide Version 1.1); the directory: "H:\courses\\cse328\pkg\Opengl examples\sgi\opengl12" contains OpenGL examples and source codes appeared in the book (OpenGL Programming Guide Version 1.2). The ftp site of SGI OpenGL examples is ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/opengl/, in case you are interested in getting more information. Please note that, the current OpenGL version in the NT translab is V1.1! Other important and relevant software programming resources currently available at the NT Transaction lab include: Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Netscape Communicator V 4.7, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP3, Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1, and much more! For details, please consult with the website of NT Transaction lab. There are many websites that can help you to be familiar with OpenGL programming techniques in particular and computer graphics technology in general. One great place for all sorts of general information is the Official OpenGL Web Site: http://www.opengl.org. This Website contains software, documentation, FAQs, and news! It is a good place to start any search for answers to your OpenGL questions. Please note that the two OpenGL programming books (A. Programming Guide; B. Reference Manual) contain many sample examples of OpenGL. These sample codes along with Mark Kilgard's OpenGL

Utility Toolkit (GLUT) can be obtained freely via anonymous ftp (file-transfer protocol): ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/opengl/opengl12.tar.Z or ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/opengl/opengl12.zip, depending on which decompression/extraction tools you are currently using in your computer. For the Windows/NT/X version of GLUT, you can check out the following Web page for the details: http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html. In addition, Nate Robins of University of Utah has written a suite of tutorial programs that demonstrate fundamental OpenGL programming concepts and techniques. You can get the source code for these tutorials at: http://www.cs.utah/edu/~narobins/opengl.html. The above Websites mostly contain information regarding OpenGL Version 1.2. For OpenGL Version 1.1, the source code samples can be found via anonymous ftp too: ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/opengl/opengl/opengl1_1.tar.Z, to uncompress and extract the files from this tar archive, please use the following commands: umcompress opengl1_1.tar, tar xf opengl1_1.tar. Other detailed information about OpenGL and its technical resources (including programming books) can also be found from SGI OpenGL home website. For detailed OpenGL compiling instructions, please refer to the TA's homepage: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~ybao. Please note that, you can also find other useful resources and course help info. regarding OpenGL environments such as GLut header file and DLLs as well as FAQs. You should be able to find out a lot of helpful information regarding how to use OpenGL in my TA's website. Please make sure that you visit these places regularly as new and important information will be updated frequently!

COURSE TOPICS AND ORGANIZATION:


Introduction and Motivation

Overview, definition Graphics history 2D and 3D graphics Graphics programming Graphics software and hardware systems User-computer interface Various application examples and areas

Graphics System Hardware


Hardware, display devices, I/O peripherals Vector and raster graphics system Interaction techniques

Fundamental Mathematics and Geometry

Basic mathematics relevant to graphics Coordinate systems Points, lines, planes, and normals Triangles and polygons Geometric primitives Curves, and surfaces Solid and volumetric models 2D and 3D geometric transformation Parallel and perspective projection Data structures

Scene composition

Coordinate system 2D and 3D geometric transformation Object hierarchies Viewing and clipping Parallel and perspective projection Object and image order rendering

Rendering

Rendering pipeline Scan-conversion: lines and polygons Shading/lighting (illumination models) Human vision Color perception and color models Basic optics Visibility

Image-based techniques

Sampling Filtering Anti-aliasing Image analysis and manipulation

Others

Animation Transparency and shadows Texture mapping Ray tracing, radiosity Image-based rendering and modeling Advanced modeling techniques Case studies

Software packages

SPECIAL NOTES:
If you have a physical, psychological, medical or learning disability that may impact on your ability to carry out assigned course work, I would urge that you contact the staff in the Disabled Student Services office (DSS) in the ECC building (where the Computer Store used to be), Telephone number: 632-6748v/TDD. DSS will review your concerns and determine with you what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. All information and documentation of disability are confidential.

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