CS445 Resource Materials
Fall 2006

• JOGL:
  • JOGL
  • JOGL files. You need jogl.jar and jogl-natives-windows-i586.jar.
  • JOGL User's Guide
• 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 OpenGLŪ 1.4 Reference Manual, 4/E,(aka blue book), OpenGL Architecture Review Board, Dave Shreiner.
• Misc:
  • Rendering and Geometry Pipeline.
  • Projections
  • Right/left handed coordinate systems.
  • Image File Formats.
  • Color
  • 2D Textures Procedural
  • 2D Transformations
  • Hypergraph
  • anti-aliasing: HyperGraph Tutorial
  • Line-Drawing Algorithms
  • Area-Filling Algorithms
  • Convolution
  • Nate Robbins Tutorials or download zip file here.
  • Interaction of Light with Surfaces
  • Try out varying parameters in Phong Reflection Model.
  • Radiosity
  • General Graphics Links
• Teapots
  • The Utah Teapot
  • SIGGRAPH 2006: The Teapot as Object and Icon
• ACM Related Sites
• Association for Computing Machinery
• SIGGRAPH
• SIGGRAPH 2006 Conference
• Student Poster and Animation Competition and Exhibition (SPACE)
• Ray Tracing Sites
• POV-Ray Web Page
• Ray Tracing Tutorial by Jamis Buck
• Illusions
• illusionworks
• others
• Size Constancy
• Ames Room Illusion and wikipedia and cutout
• Depth Ambiguity