Topics for the Week of Oct 13, 2008
CS 445: Computer Graphics

• Labs
  • Tues: continue to work on Part 3 of Lab 2: Introduction to OpenGL/JOGL.
  • Thurs:
    • Look at student work for Lab 2, part 3.
    • Begin Lab 3: Navigation and Specifying Geometry.
    • Look at navigation example again.

• More mathematics

  • Projection Matrix
  • Review cene Graphs
  • Review: Navigation

• OpenGL

  • Efficiency Issues
    • Options for storing/specifying geometry:
      • Immediate mode (deprecated in OpenGL 3)
      • Display lists(deprecated in OpenGL 3)
      • Vertex lists
      • Vertex buffer objects
      • Faq:Display Lists and Vertex Arrays
    • See VertexModeCubeExamples (copy is on enfuzion) for example of each of the above.
    • Examples where efficiency really matters:
      • DEM
      • Navigation

  • Begin discussion of lighting

    • Specifying and calculating normals
    • Specifying lights and light parameters.