CS 445: Topics for Sept 25 & 27, 2012

• Lab:
  • Complete: Lab 1: Building a Ray Tracer, Part 3
  • Begin: Lab 2: Getting Started with OpenGL
• Useful Links
  • www.opengl.org
  • Khronos & OpenGL, About Khronos
  • Reference pages for 3.3. We will be assuming 3.2 or later. Note, the latest version is 4.3.
  • OpenGL 3.2 API Quick Reference Card
  • Nate Robbins OpenGL tutorials. The functions he uses are deprecated but the concepts are still the same.
  • Also look on the links page.
• Scanline rendering: triangles, transformations, 2D projection, polygon fill, z-buffering...
  • Projection Types
  • View Frustum
• OpenGl Primitives
• Pipeline:
  • Transformation View of the fixed Geometry Pipeline
  • Mike Bailey's Hardware View with shaders.
• Overview of OpenGL: see siggraph notes.
• A tutorial on GLUT.
• What is GLEW: The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library? (if site down, go here)

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