Computer Graphics

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. (Andrew Tanenbaum)

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(Hill 2nd ed 32-35; 3rd ed 34-37, 439-442)

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GLSL tutorial. ToyShader and other example programs.

(Hill: 2nd ed 554-576, 3rd ed 467-486)

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Pixel drawing applets

(Hill 2nd ed 472-523; 3rd ed 82-85, 115-116)

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Line fractal Applet. IFS Fractal applet. XaoS (fractal zoomer).

(Hill 2nd ed 577-587, 781, 170-172, 91; 3rd ed 487-495, 659, 161-162, 103)

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Chapter 7 of the OpenGL programmer’s guide on Antialiasing (prefiltering using OpenGL).

Chapter 10 of the OpenGL programmer’s guide on The Framebuffer (postfiltering using OpenGL).

Chapter 9 of the OpenGL programmer’s guide on Texture Mapping.

Example OpenGL programs, aargb, accanti and dof are here.

(Hill 2nd ed 732-814; 3rd ed 611-694)

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Raytrace demo applet.

POV-Ray POV-Ray Hall of Fame

(Hill 2nd ed 408-436; 3rd ed 376-405)

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Chapter 6 of the OpenGL programmer’s guide on Lighting.

Shutterbug rendering progression.

(Hill 2nd ed 358-390, 704-711; 3rd ed 327-361, 668-669)

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Vrml examples

Chapter 3 of the OpenGL programmer’s guide on Modeling and Viewing.

BSP Tree Applet

Hill (2nd ed 189-194; 3rd Ed 178-183)

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firstAttempt: The famous three dot program from page 46 of Hill.

polyLineDraw: OpenGL and mouse input.

polyTess: OpenGL polygon tesselation.

Toy1: Simplest 3D program - draw the teapot.

Toy2: Calls Starwars to make an X wing fighter.

Toy3: Rotating about x, y and z axes

Toy4: Using rotations to make a robot arm

ToyFinal: Big demo of all the objects list below

StarWars: Use matrix stack to make a Xwing

Function2D: A surface defined by the sinc function.

BezierPatch: One Bezier patch defined by 16 control points.

FractalTree: A simple fractal tree

SurfaceOfRevolution: A surface of revolution

FractalTerrain: Some Fractal Terrain

CSELogo: The Old CSE logo

ShapeManager: A class to manage all the shapes above.

trackball: Uses quaternions to create a virtual trackball. The code is converted from C code in GLUT, so it’s ugly.

Vector3D: 3D vector functions like cross product.

A zip file of everything.