CS 442/542 Introduction to Computer Graphics

Course Meta Information

• Syllabus

Notes

• [PDF] OpenGL Pipeline
• Rasterization
  • [PDF] Drawing lines
  • [PDF] Drawing circles, filling rectangles, and raster operations [PPT, HTML]
  • Transparent Sprites with BitBLT
  • [PDF] Filling Polygons
  • [PDF] 2D Clipping
• OpenGL and GLUT
  • [PDF] Intro to OpenGL and GLUT programming
    • events.c | polyed.c | polyed2.c | polyed3.c
    • Makefile | Makefile.OSX
• Object Transformations
  • [PDF] 2-D Transformations
  • [PDF] Modeling Transformations in OpenGL
    • star.c | starfill.c | starring.c | flag.c | animflag.c | Makefile | Makefile.OSX
  • [PDF] 3-D Transformations
  • [PDF] Hierarchical Modeling
    • [PDF] Robot Arm | [PDF] Robot Arm Tree
    • [PDF] Articulated Arm | [PDF] Articulated Arm Graph | articulated.c
• Viewing and Projecting
  • [PDF] Viewing and Intro to Projections
  • Mandelbrot Set Explorer: mandelbrot.c | Makefile
  • [PDF] Perspective Projections
  • [PDF] Clipping in 4-D
• Polygonal Meshes
  • [PDF] Polygonal Meshes
  • [PDF] Surfaces of Revolution
    • Surface generation tool and mesh viewer: rot.c | viewmesh.c | Makefile
    • Sample profiles: vino.xy | gasket.xy (use rot to create mesh data files and view with viewmesh)
  • [PDF] Vertex Arrays and Vertex Buffer Objects
    • spier.cpp | Makefile
    • [PDF] Using VBO's from nVidia's developer's zone.
• Lighting and Shading
  • [PDF] Intro to Shading
  • tea.c
  • [WIKI] Phong and [WIKI] Blinn-Phong reflection model
  • [PDF] Flat, Gouraud, and Phong Shading
    • [WIKI]
    • shade.c
• Visible Surface Determination
  • [PDF] Z-Buffer and Pseudo-Depth
  • [PDF] Into Visible Surface Determination
  • pepsi.c | bottle.dat | Makefile
  • [PDF] BSP Trees
  • [PDF] Building BSP Trees
  • [PDF] Splitting a polygon with a plane
• Texture Mapping
  • Post-Perspective Reparameterization [PDF] (8.5)
  • 2D Texture Mapping [PDF]
  • 2D Texture Maps in OpenGL [PDF]
    • Jello Box (zip)
    • Pepsi Bottle (zip)
    • Donut (zip) [includes source code (bmp.h, bmp.c) for reading BMP files to be used as texture maps, as well as sample BMP files.]
• Color
• Gamma correction
• Comparing colors
• [PDF] blending
• Alpha Composing | Alpha Blending in OpenGL | Transparency
• Shadows
  • [PDF] Planar Shadows using the Stencil Buffer
  • [PPT] Stencil Buffer
  • [PNG] Screen shot at Snowmen Screen Saver for OS X written by Jason Sikes.
  • Stencil Shadow Volumes
• [PDF] GPU Programming
  • htmgpu.c : Example program that does real-time shading of a relief surface.
  • htmgpu.tar.gz : compressed tarball containing everything needed to build and run the program.
  • Program requires command line argument isis, i.e., to run the program do the following

      ./htmgpu isis &
    

    Drag the mouse (with the left button pressed) to change the lighting.
• Bump Mapping
• Curves and Surfaces
  • [PDF] Bezier Curves and Surfaces
    • Bezier curve editor: bezier.c | Makefile
    • Bezier surface editor: edbezier.cpp | viewpick.cpp | viewpick.h | Makefile
  • [PDF] Hermite Surfaces
  • Hermite surface editor: edithermitesurface.cc | func3.h | hermitesurface.cc | hermitesurface.h | viewpick.cc | viewpick.h | Makefile
• Stereo
  • Calculating Stereo Pairs
  • anaglyph.c

Assignments

• Assignment #1 (solution)

Programming Projects

• Electronics submission form
• [PDF] Non-Zero Winding Number Polygon Fill
  • Code for creating and saving PNG images: Image.h | Image.c | Makefile
  • Some test case and their resulting images:
    • triangle.txt | triangle.png
    • box.txt | box.png
    • boxhole.txt | boxhole.png
    • donut.txt | donut.png
    • star.txt | star.png
    • bunch.txt | bunch.png
    • test0.txt | test0.png
    • test1.txt | test1.png
    • test2.txt | test2.png
    • test3.txt | test3.png
    • test4.txt | test4.png
    • test5.txt | test5.png
• [PDF] Dancing Robot
• [PDF] Toroidal Spiral