Computer Graphics (fall,2009): links

Computer Graphics
- ExtremeTech 3D Pipeline Tutorial (June 31, 2001)
- ANU (Australian National University) Computer Graphics Lecture Notes
OpenGL-related
- OpenGL homepage
- online Redbook version 1.1
- Redbook ver 1.1 samples
- Redbook samples for ver 1.0~1.4
- freeglut library
- GLUT for Win32 (pre-compiled, ported by Nate Robin)
- GLUT ver.3 reference
- Nate Robin's OpenGL Tutors
- [PDF] The Design of the OpenGL Graphics Interface (1994, Mark Segal and Kurt Akeley) (long version with figures of better quality)
- OpenGL 2.1 Reference Pages
- OpenGL Extension Viewer: Displays information of the current OpenGL 3D accelerator.
- Picking
  - OpenGL Picking Made Easy [PDF] by Mike Bailey
  - Picking Tutorial by Lighthouse 3D
  - OpenGL FAQ: Picking and Using Selection
  - OpenGL:Tutorials:Picking by GP (Game Programming) Wiki
- Siggraph '96-'00 Advanced OpenGL Courses
- Advanced texture mapping demos
  - Volume rendering using 3D texture
    - RadeonVolVis
    - volume.c from Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Rendering at Siggraph '97 - I failed to run this demo. (access violation error) Please let me know anybody succeeded it.
  - Environment (Reflection) mapping
    - OpenGL Cube Map Texturing (1999)
    - usespheremap.c from Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Rendering at Siggraph '97 - I failed to run this demo. (no reflection on the objects) Please let me know anybody succeeded it.
    - Jerome Jouvie's Java Applet
  - Bump mapping
    - Simple Bumpmapping by Paul
    - 2D Bump Mapping using Java
    - Siggraph '99 course sample: Try bumpmap.c.
Realistic rendering
- Ray-tracing
  - POV-Ray: free raytracer
  - YafaRay: open source raytracing engine (renderer for Blender)
  - Pixie: open source RenderMan renderer
  - Aqsis: open source 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan standard
  - SubFlow: open source rendering system
  - Indigo Renderer: commercial renderer
  - RenderMan: commercial renderer developed by Pixar
- Photon mapping
  - Photon mapping at Wikipedia
- Radiosity
  - Radiosity at Wikipedia
Physics
Volume rendering
- ImageVis3d: Volume rendering program
- Volume Rendering 102: Transfer Functions by Kyle Hayward
Curves and surfaces
- Interactive applets
  - Interpolating polynomial
  - Hermite curve
  - Hermite, Bézier, B-spline
  - Cubic Hermite
  - Cubic Bézier curve
  - Cubic Bézier curve
  - Bézier curve
  - Bézier spline curves
  - Bézier Applet by Alex S.
  - B-splines
  - Cubic B-spline applet
  - Cubic B-spline
  - Cubic B-spline
  - Applets of the figures in the book "Curves and Surfaces for CAGD" (by Gerald Farin) implemented by Martin Kraus [highly recommended!!!]
  - Bézier Surfaces Penn State University
  - Bézier surfaces netgraphics.sk
  - CAGD-Applets
3D mesh data format
- Free models
- Wavefront Obj file format
  - Obj file format specification
  - Obj-related tools, libs, etc.
  - GLM tutorial (GLM is an "obj loader" originally implemented by Nate Robin.)
- 3DS file format
  - lib3ds
  - 3DS Loader & Viewer by Matt Fairfax
- multiple formats
  - ASSIMP (Open Asset Import Library)
- data structure
  - Polygon mesh (Wikipedia)
  - CGAL Halfedge Data Structures
  - OpenMesh Halfedge Data Structure
GLSL
- glslDevil: GLSL Debuffer
- RenderMonkey
- gDEBugger: OpenGL debuggger (commercial)
etc.
- Visual Studio Express
- Ke-Sen Huang's Home Page: Major graphics conference papers can be found.

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