Computer Graphics I - Resources

Lecture Notes and Textbooks

• My lecture notes. Note: password protected.

• Hearn, Baker & Carithers textbook links:

  • Textbook home page (at Prentice Hall's web site)
  • Source code from the textbook (zip file, from Prentice Hall)

• OpenGL books:

  • OpenGL Distilled; by Paul Martz; 2006, Addison Wesley
  • OpenGL: A Primer, third edition; by Edward Angel; 2008, Addison Wesley
  • OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1 (the "Red Book"), seventh edition; by Dave Shreiner; 2010, Addison-Wesley Professional
  • OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, fifth edition; Richard Wright et. al.; 2011, Addison-Wesley Professional

• Other CG1 textbook links:

  • Computer Graphics Using OpenGL, third edition; by Francis Hill and Stephen Kelley; 2007, Prentice Hall
  • Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with Shader-Based OpenGL, sixth edition; by Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner; 2012, Addison Wesley

• C textbook links:

  • Pointers on C; by Kenneth Reek; 1998, Addison Wesley
  • The C Programming Language, second edition; by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie; 1988, Prentice Hall
  • C How To Program, seventh edition; by Paul and Harvey Deitel; 2013, Prentice Hall

• C++ textbook links:

  • C++ How To Program, eighth edition; by Paul and Harvey Deitel; 2012, Prentice Hall
  • C++ for Java Programmers; by Mark Allen Weiss; 2003, Prentice Hall

Sample Code, Tutorials, Libraries

• The Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

  • Here is version 1.6 compiled for use with Visual Studio 2010

• The OpenGL Extension Wrangler library

  • Here is version 1.7.0 compiled for use with Visual Studio 2010

• The Simple OpenGL Image Library (SOIL)

  • Here is a version compiled for use with Visual Studio 2010

• OpenGL Coding Resources (from www.opengl.org)

• OpenGL Technical FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide (from www.opengl.org)

• nehe.gamedev.net, OpenGL tutorials, sample OpenGL code (see also the main site, www.gamedev.net)

• The CS CG1 graphics public directory, /usr/local/pub/graphics/cg1, contains sample code, tutorials, etc.

• My public graphics directory, /usr/local/pub/wrc/courses/graphics, contains lots of documentation, examples, etc.

Documents

• Mathematics for CG documents prepared by Reynold Bailey:

  • Matrices (pdf)
  • Points and Vectors (pdf)

• OpenGL/GLU/GLUT:

  • Local copies of the OpenGL, GLSL, GLU, GLX, and GLUT specifications (also available at OpenGL.org)

  • API documentation (all function calls and their parameters): at OpenGL.org:

    • GLUT 3
    • OpenGL 2.1, GLU, GLX
    • OpenGL 3.3
    • OpenGL 4.2

  • GLUT for Windows, implemented by Nate Robins

  • The freeglut home page

  • OpenGL and GLUT under Visual Studio:

    • Installing and Using GLUT and OpenGL on Windows 7/Vista/XP with Visual Studio 2010/2008, from Sugih Jamin's EECS487 page at the University of Michigan (a local copy)

    • Installing freeglut on Visual Studio 2008 via a blog called "Temp Variable" (a local copy - there are some font issues in the copy)

    • Using GLUT with Visual C++ Express Edition (PDF) by Ashwin Nanjappa (a local copy)

    • Using OpenGL & GLUT with Visual Studio .NET 2003 by Jordan Bradford (a local copy)

    • GLUT guides from John Keyser @ TAMU:

      • Using GLUT with Visual Studio 6.0 (a local copy)
      • Using GLUT with Visual Studio .NET (a local copy)

    • Local copies of older guides:

      • Using GLUT with Visual Studio 6.0 by Jacob Foshee @ TAMU
      • Using GLUT with Visual Studio .NET by Jacob Foshee @ TAMU
      • Running OpenGL on Visual Studio 2005 by Phuong Nguyen @ CSU Long Beach

  • OpenGL and GLUT under OS X:

    • Installing and Using GLUT and OpenGL on Mac OS X Lion/SnowLeopard/Leopard/Tiger and XCode, from Sugih Jamin's EECS487 page at the University of Michigan (a local copy)

    • XCode/GLUT Tutorial (a local copy) 2007/12/12

    • Compiling OpenGL/GLUT Programs on Mac OS X using XCode

    • Using OpenGL and GLUT on OS X with Eclipse (a local copy), 2007/07/16

  • OpenGL user forums at opengl.org:

    • OpenGL on Linux

    • OpenGL on Macintosh

    • OpenGL under Windows

  • Instructions for using OpenGL and GLUT with Borland C++ 5.02 by Grant Macklem (a local copy)

  • Manuals:

    • The OpenGL Programming Guide (a.k.a. the ``Red'' Book), Release 1 (local copy, HTML)
    • The OpenGL Programming Guide (a.k.a. the ``Red'' Book), Release 1 (local copy, PDF)
    • The OpenGL Reference Manual (a.k.a. the ``Blue'' Book), Version 1.0 (local copy, HTML)

  • An OpenGL reference page maintained by Nate Robins

  • Resources at OpenGL.org:

    • Avoiding 16 Common OpenGL Pitfalls by Mark Kilgard
    • OpenGL & 3D Graphics Coding Books
    • OpenGL & Utility Library Specifications & Manual Pages
    • Extensions to OpenGL

  • From Silicon Graphics:

    • OpenGL and GLUT examples (including Redbook examples)
    • Their OpenGL FAQ
    • SGI's OpenGL tech info web page