This is the home page for the course CS 274: Computer Graphics, offered by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, Fall 2008.

General Information:

• Instructor: Robert R. Snapp, (353 Votey, 656–0735), (e-mail).
• Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1:30–3:00 p.m., Wednesdays, 1:30–3:00 p.m., Fridays 9:00–11:00 a.m..
• Class meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in Room 367 Votey, 3:35–4:25 p.m.

Textbooks:

• Samuel R. Buss, 3-D Computer Graphics: A Mathematical Introduction with OpenGL, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK,. 2003.
We'll refer to this book as 3DCG.
• Dave Shreiner, Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, and Tom Davis, and OpenGL Programming Guide, Third (1999), Fourth (2003), Fifth (2006), or Sixth (2007) Editions, Addison-Wesley, Reading Massachusetts. Known as The Red Book. (Required). (Errata sheet and example programs.)
• The reference list.

Handouts:

Most handouts are availabe in pdf format, a page description language supported by Adobe Acrobat. If you do not have Acrobat Reader for your personal computer, you can download it for free from Adobe.

• syllabus [pdf] (3 pages).

Homework Assignments:

• In 3DCG please read Chapter 1 pp. 1 - 16, and the first part of Appendix A: p. 319-328. Complete exercises 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 in Chapter 1. You should also consult Chapters 1 and 2 of the Red Book while you are programming. Due Friday, September 12.

Lecture Notes:

• Introduction [pdf]. (9/5/03)
• Viewports [pdf]. (9/8/03)
• Displays [pdf]. (9/10/03)
• Raster Algorithms (lines) [pdf]. (9/12/03)
• Raster Algorithms (circles) [pdf]. (9/15/03)
• More ways to draw circles [pdf]. (9/17/03)
• Scanline Fill Algorithm [pdf]. (9/22/03)
• Antialiasing [pdf]. (9/24/03)
• Boundary and Flood Fill [pdf]. (9/26/03)
• Mathematics of rotations [pdf].
• Two-dimensional transformations [ pdf].
• Three-dimensional transformations [ pdf].
• Viewing in two-dimensions [pdf].
• Viewing in three-dimensions [pdf].
• Polyhedral Models [pdf].
• Spline Models [pdf].

Source Code:

• sierpinski.c is a simple C program that displays a two-dimensional fractal using OpenGL. ( makefile).
• Example Programs from the OpenGL Red Book
• bentley
• My lighting demo program: polylight.tar

Resources:

• FAQ for comp.graphics.algorithms
• Computer Graphics Software Tools on the Internet
• Graphica Obscura: Collected Computer Graphics Hacks
• ACM SIGGRAPH Web Resources for Learning [Graphics] on the Web
• The home page of Jim Blinn of Microsoft Research.
• The home page of Paul Debevec.
• The home page of Henrik Wann Jensen of Stanford University, including realistic animations of smoke with a photon map renderer.
• The home page of Ron Fedkiw, Stanford University.
• The Digital Michaelangelo Project at Stanford University.
• The home page of Ken Musgrave of pandromeda.com.
• The home page of Demetri Terzopoulos, University of Toronto.
• Brown University Computer Graphics Group.
• Caltech Computer Graphics Group.
• Computer Graphics and Visualization at the Univeristy of Utah.
• Pixar Animation Studios.
• Industrial Light + Magic.

OpenGL Web Sites

• The Official Web Page of the OpenGL consortium. Here you will find lots of documentation, including information about GLUT (the OpenGL Utility Toolkit). There are also links to many tutorials.
• Nate Robins's OpenGL tutorials, programs, and course notes.
• SGI's OpenGL WWW Center
• GLUI is a device independent graphical user interface written in OpenGL by Paul Rademacher, currently a graduate student at the University of North Carolina., Chapel Hill.

Postscript Web Sites

• Glenn Reid's excellent guide, Thinking in Postscript is out of print. But click here for information on how to download a free pdf copy for your personal use.

Graphics Hardware

• nVIDIA