Useful links and online information

• IEEExplore provides provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.
• ACM Digital Library.
• ACM SIGGRAPH.
• Blender.
• NVIDIA .
• ATI Technologies.
• Jeremy Birn's Web Page.
• The Digital Michelangelo Project.
• 1st and Ten Line.
• The Mesa 3D Graphics Library.
• OpenGL 2.1 Reference Pages.
• openGLUT documentation pages.
• openGLUT API specifications.
• OpenGL Reference Manual (The Blue Book).
• OpenGL Programming Guide (The Red Book).
• OpenGL Web Site.
• The POVRAY site.
• On-line graphics resources from ACM TOG.
• The Rayshade public-domain ray tracer.
• List of non-photorealistic rendering resources.
• GLUT documents and support page.
• Source code from the openGL Red Book.
• Nate Robins' openGL Tutors.
• Open Inventor.
• Textbook available in google books.
• Archive of RenderMan documentation.
• Nate Robins' OpenGL Tutorial.
• The RenderMan repository.
• Real-time rendering resources.
• Cg Tutorial (Free Book).
• Cg in Two pages.
• ATI Demos.
• Cg toolkit.
• Hello, Cg.
• Cg home page.
• Game Development using DirectX .
• An excellent presentation about color science.
• Real-time Rendering Book and Resources.
• OpenGL ES - The Standard for Embedded Accelerated 3D Graphics.
• Real-Time Rendering Resources.
• A living map and catalog of game development organizations.

Important dates

• Offered Spring 2014.
• Time: TTh 12:30 - 1:45 PM
• Place: 2400 Health and Wellness Center

News and Announcements

• The required textbook for the class is "Fundamentals of Computer Graphics", Third Edition, A K Peters, 2009, by Peter Shirley by Peter Shirley and Steve Marschner with Michael Ashikhmin, Michael Gleicher, Naty Hoffman, Garrett Johnson, Tamara Munzner, Erik Reinhard, Kelvin Sung, William B. Thompson, Peter Willemsen, and Brian Wyvill; ISBN: 978-1-56881-469-8. (Second edition will be sufficient also).

Handouts

Assignments

• Previous midterm exam (Spring 2009).
• Previous midterm exam (Spring 2010).
• Previous midterm exam (Fall 2010).
• Previous midterm exam (Spring 2013).

Last modified on Jan. 3, 2014