Welcome to ITSD4305

Computer Graphics Concepts

~ ... and everything under the sun is in tune... ~

blaxxunContact53.exe

tokamak_1.0.2.zip

Content

• Syllabus
• Schedule

Projects: you will work on three projects this semester (negotiable depending upon the scope of the projects you pick).  They should demonstrate mastery of the material and should constitute approximately 70 hours of work each.

Lecture Material and Examples

• Using Blender (basic concepts)
• OpenGL
• Lights and Materials
• Texture Mapping
• Matrix Operations
• WBIT3400Full.zip

Summer 2007

• lectures/2007/better.c

Summer 2006

• lectures/2006/6_7_06.c
• lectures/2006/6_8_06.cpp
• lectures/2006/6_12_06.c
• lectures/2006/6_13_06_slow.cpp - loads textures and geometry per frame (using glTexImage2D and drawing 2 spheres of 1.2 million vertices)
• lectures/2006/6_13_06_fast.cpp - loads and stores textures and geometry on the graphics card (using display lists and glBindTexture)
• lectures/2006/6_15_06.cpp - integrates the Tokamak physics engine into an OpenGL program.

Summer 2005

• lectures/texture_pots.c
• lectures/brass_pot.c
• lectures/BMPLoader.cpp
• lectures/BMPLoader.h
• lectures/flying.c
• plants.bmp
• EarthMap.bmp
• lectures/July20.zip
• http://www.runicsoft.com/noisegen.php - a Perlin noise generator
• AnimationExample.wrl

Homework

• Homework 1 - Blender
• Homework 2 - OpenGL
• Homework 2 - VRML
• Homework 3 - OpenGL
• Homework 3 - VRML
• Final Project

Relevant/Informative Links

VRML

• VRML Tutorial
• VRML Plugin (for IE and Firefox)
• Examples

OpenGL

• Installing GLUT
• glut-3.7.6-bin.zip
• How to start a Visual Studio 6.0 Project
• How to start a Studio .NET Project
• Slew of Tutorials (NeHe)
• Tokamak Tutorials