Topics for the Week of Oct 6, 2008
CS 445: Computer Graphics

• Lab 2: Introduction to OpenGL/JOGL (3 weeks)
  • Tues: continue to work on Lab 2, part 2.
  • Thurs: look at student work for Lab 2, part 2. Begin Lab 2, part 3.
  • Look at Robot example.

• More mathematics

  • Projection Matrix
  • Scene Graphs
  • Navigation (if time)

• OpenGL

  • Modeling the chess set
  • Setting up Scene Graphs in OpenGL
  • Other OpenGL functions:
    • other: enabling depth testing
    • storing/specifying geometry: immediate mode (deprecated), display lists(deprecated), vertex lists, vertex buffers.
    • Robot program