Here is the list of topics which will
appear on the final.
 Inside a virtual spaceship, by student Matt Hibbs. |
Professor: Nina Amenta
Teaching Assistant: Tony Bernardin, cs175t "at" cs.ucdavis.edu
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Tests
Projects
- Pre-project 0 - Portrait Due 7pm Fri Apr 7 - Class Pictures
- Project 1 - Big Pixels, Due 7pm Wds Apr 19
- Project 2 - Fractal Plants, Due 7pm Mon May 1
- Project 3 - Glass Ball, Due 7pm Fri May 19
- Project 4 - Virtual World, Due 7pm Fri June 2
EXTENSION - Due 7pm Mon June 5. Extra credit if you get it in by the original due date.
Texts
The textbooks are:
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, SECOND EDITION
Peter Shirley, et. al.
A K Peters, Ltd., 2005
and:
OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Fifth Edition
OpenGL Architecture Review Board (Mason, Woo, et al)
Addison Wesley Professional, 2005
Earlier editions are fine if you want to buy it used.
Online Resources
Here are online books, manuals, Web sites, etc. DO NOT PRINT OUT LONG DOCUMENTS ON DEPARTMENT PRINTERS!- A good online source for learning about graphics is David Mount's lecture notes from the University of Maryland.
- Old versions of the OpenGL book and the Reference Manual are online, and are OK for the purposes of this course. Here is one link to the OpenGL Reference Manual.
- The GLUT library connects OpenGL to your operating system's windows, in a fairly portable way. So, you can develop on your machine at home and get the same program to run on the machines in the lab. Here is the documentation.
- Nate Robins' OpenGL tutors let you see how changing the parameter to a function changes the output.
- NeHe has a huge number of game development resources, links, and demos, including a set of great OpenGL tutorials.