CSc 433/533: Computer Graphics
[ Slides and Notes ]

This course and its materials owe much to others, including Craig Gotsman, David Forsyth, Kobus Barnard, and other previous U of A CS 433/533 instructors.

Lecture slide sets used in class:

• Course Introduction
  


• Transformations in 2D
  


• Intro to OpenGL
  


• Intro to OpenGL (cont)
  


• Transformations in 3D
  
  
• Polygon Filling
  
  
• Shading
  
  
• Hidden Surfaces Removal
  
  
• QuadTrees
  
  
• Ray Tracing
  
  
• Refrection and Suface Details.
  
  
• Scene Graph
  
  
• Modeling
  
  
• Radiosity
  
  
• GL Shader Language Summary
  
  
• Rendering large environments (by Sid Chaudhuri). More more on impostors and billboard Clouds here.
  

Some useful online supplements:

• An Introduction to OpenGL, from Prof. Doug Bowman's course at Va Tech.
  
  
• An Introduction to GLSL, the GL Shader Language, from Profs. Doug Bowman and Yong Cao's course at Va Tech.
  
  
• A GLSL Tutorial, from Lighthouse3D.
  
  
• A "quick and dirty" GLSL Primer, from the Game Developer's Network.
  
  If you're having problems understanding how information is shared via qualified variables (i.e. varying, attribute, uniform), then the Lighthouse3D tutorial is a good place to start. See the section on "OpenGL Communication." Relevant code samples are in orange font; ignore the ARB versions (grey font).