Computer Graphics I - Links

Last updated 2011/08/29 11:29:33

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, fourth edition; Richard Wright et. al.; 2007, 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, sixth edition; by Paul and Harvey Deitel; 2010, 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

OpenGL Coding Tutorials (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 for Windows, implemented by Nate Robins
- The freeglut home page
- OpenGL and GLUT under Visual Studio:
  - 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:
  - 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 on Macintosh forum at opengl.org
- 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:
- From Silicon Graphics:
  - OpenGL and GLUT examples (including Redbook examples)
  - Their OpenGL FAQ
  - SGI's OpenGL tech info web page