CS 445: Topics for the Week of August 29, 2006

• Course Overview
• ************* FIRST DAY QUIZ
• Reading: Chapters 1-3
• Links
• Teapots
  • The Utah Teapot
  • SIGGRAPH 2006: The Teapot as Object and Icon
• Coordinate Systems
  • Right/Left Handed
  • Model, World, Eye, ...
• Geometry Pipeline
• Lab: Structure of an OpenGL/JOGL Program and Simple Geometric Modeling
• JOGL
  • JOGL
  • JOGL files. You need jogl.jar and jogl-natives-windows-i586.jar.
  • JOGL User's Guide
  • Some instructions for installing on your computer.
  • Netbeans IDE
• OpenGL
  • OpenGl
  • OpenGl Primatives
  • Older version of The OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, 4/E, (aka red book) by Dave Shreiner, Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, OpenGL Architecture Review Board, David Shreiner.
  • Older version of the OpenGL® 1.4 Reference Manual, 4/E,(aka blue book), OpenGL Architecture Review Board, Dave Shreiner.
• Look at simple program example.
  • Look at Nate Robbins shapes.exe (glVertex)
  • with/without animation
  • creating glut and glu shapes
  • using gl primatives
• Projections and Viewing
  • Types
  • Look at Nate Robbins projection.exe (gluPerspective, gluLookAt)
  • OpenGL Projection Transformations: glFrustum(), gluPerspective(), glOrtho(), gluOrtho2()
• Summary of OpenGL functions for setting up Transformations

  Modeling transformation modelview matrix	glTranslate, glRotate, glScale
  Viewing transformation modelview matrix	gluLookAt
  Projection transformation projection matrix	glFrustum, gluPerspective, glOrtho, gluOrtho2
  Viewport transformation	glViewport

  
  

  

• What to do next week...