Catalog Description

Surveys interactive graphics systems. Studies two- and three-dimensional computer graphics, color models, shading, windowing, clipping, segments, hidden-surface and line removal and animation. Exposure to an industry standard computer graphics library on the department's workstations. Prerequisites: CS212, MA232.

OpenGL and GLUT Links

• OpenGL home page

• SGI's OpenGL Center

• Mesa 3-D graphics library

• GLUT home page

• Examples from the OpenGL Programming Guide (the "Redbook")

Books and other references

• Our textbook and the author's page about the book.

• Lecture notes by David Mount, University of Maryland. These notes are an excellent reference and pages 9-26 provide a good introduction to using OpenGL and GLUT.

• Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques Using OpenGL (an alternate link). These are notes from a SIGGRAPH 99 course.

• The Joy of Visual Perception: A Web Book