CSE 3431 Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics

Content covered

I will be using the slides that come with the textbook. Students may download them from the home page of the textbook. The following list will detail the sections that were covered in each week. Note that, as usual, exams cover all the material in the course. This includes all material covered in the lectures as well as the assignments. Moreover, everything covered in class (blackboard, in-class discussions, etc) is also considered examinable content.

Week 01, Jan 04-08 - Ch 1
Week 02, Jan 11-15 - Ch 1+2
Week 03, Jan 18-22 - Ch 2+3
Week 04, Jan 25-29 - Ch 3+4
Week 05, Feb 01-05 - Ch 4
Week 06, Feb 08-12 - Ch 4+5
Week --, Feb 15-19 - Reading Week, no class
Week 07, Feb 22-26 - Ch 5+6 (AngelCG17 not covered, midterm)
Week 08, Mar 01-05 - Ch 6+7
Week 09, Mar 08-12 - Ch 7+8
Week 10, Mar 15-19 - Ch 8 (AngelCG27-30 not covered)
Week 11, Mar 22-26 - Ch 10
Week 12, Mar 29-Apr 1 - Ch 10 and Ch. 13.1-13.3 [Apr 2, Good Friday, no class]
Week 13, Apr 05 -

OpenGL & GLUT Reference Material

OpenGL man pages
Shreiner et al, "The OpenGL Programming Guide, 5th Ed.", Addison-Wesley, 2006, 0-321-33573-2 (earlier version available online)
Man pages for all OpenGL and GLUT commands are installed in Prism. (e.g. see 'man glBegin' and 'man glut'.)
MSDN Library "Documentation on C", including reference pages can be found under "Visual Studio Documentation->Visual C++ Documentation". "An Introduction to OpenGL" including OpenGL reference pages can be found under "Platform SDK->Graphics and Multimedia Services->OpenGL".
www.opengl.org, with many documentation and coding resources
Collection of OpenGL & GLUT sample code
Mesa (software implementation of OpenGL)
A short description of GLUT can be found in Appendix D from the OpenGL Programming Guide.
Short reference with the most important API functions.
GLUT binaries for the Windows platform (Win32).
GLUT Library
Complete reference

Note that OpenGL & GLUT are already installed in the undergrad labs, see the example Makefile in /cs/course/3431/examples/Makefile. Most PC Developer Environments have OpenGL libraries and DLL's and need only GLUT. Linux users may need Mesa and GLUT.

Additional Resources & Textbooks

Textbook home page
Online version of the textbook
Shirley, "Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 2nd Edition", AK Peters, 2005, 1-56881-269-8
Neider, Davis, Woo, "OpenGL Programming Guide", Addison Wesley {Also available on-line, see below}.
Shirley, "Realistic Ray Tracing", A K Peters.
Foley, VanDam, Feiner, Hughes "Computer Graphics Principles and Practice, Addison Wesley.
Newman, Sproull, "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics", McGraw-Hill.
Rogers, Adams, "Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics", McGraw-Hill.
Rogers, "Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics", McGraw-Hill.
Watt, "Fundamentals of Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics", Addison-Wesley
tutorial/historical graphics images
Brown Exploratory (Java applets explaining graphics concepts)
Some more Java applets explaining computer graphics concepts/algorithms can be found here.

Another useful resource is the SIGGRAPH Five-Minute Career Mentor, The Demo Reel From Hell