Resources

Lecture Notes and References

• Rasterization
• Barycentric coordinates and triangle rasterization
• Gauss-Jordan Elimination
• Quaternions
• Rotation and Camera

Recitation Notes

• Lab 0 slides
• Lab 1 slides
• Lab 2 slides
• Lab 3 slides
• Lab 4 slides
• Lab 5 slides
• Lab 6 slides
• Lab 8 slides

Textbook

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics by Peter Shirley, AK Peters.

The bookstore has ordered these books last week. It is not required for problems or anything, but it will be useful to have and may also serve you well in the future.

Links

• OpenGL programming guide ("Redbook")
• OpenGL reference manual ("Bluebook")
• Python OpenGL reference (useful for all langauges, too; it is newer than the above)
• B-spline basis functions
• Tranformations and Homogeneous Coordinates
• A Python implementation of lex and yacc
• Lemon (thread-safe parser for C/C++)

Code

• Checking for errors in OpenGL
• Using Python and PyOpenGL on the CS cluster
• A simple flex/bison example in C++
• Minmatrix -- A Minimal polymorphic matrix class by Steven Mueller
• C++ Code: clipDrawPoly.tar.gz -- code to clip and then draw polygons. Uses C++ STL vector templates and works in any number of dimensions. This will interpolate normals and colors for you. make and run polytest | display to see two intersecting colored polygons. Use or change any of the code as you see fit.
• Python Code: clipDrawPoly.py.gz is very similar (in fact, this is the code I wrote first).