Computer Graphics (fall,2012): links

OpenGL ES 2.0 development
- ARM OpenGL ES 2.0 emulator (Windows, OSX, Linux)
- ARM OpenGL ES 3.0 emulator (Windows only, as of 11 Mar 2013)
- AMD OpenGL ES SDK -- includes OpenGL ES 2.0 emulator (Windows and Linux only)
- ADT bundle -- includes OpenGL ES 2.0 example
- Android NDK -- includes OpenGL ES 2.0 NDK example
OpenGL ES
- OpenGL ES Specs
- Learn OpenGL ES -- Check out the "Android Tutorials" category on the left.
- OpenGL ES for iOS by Apple
OpenGL / OpenGL ES
- Projection matrices by Song Ho Ahn
- OpenGL for OS X by Apple
- Setting up freeGLUT on XCode 4.4
- OpenGL samples by g-trunc
Books on OpenGL ES/WebGL programming
- OpenGL® ES 2.0 Programming Guide (2008) by Aaftab Munshi, Dan Ginsburg, Dave Shreiner
- Game and Graphics Programming for iOS and Android with OpenGL ES 2.0 (2012) by Romain Marucchi-Foino -- heavily realies on its own library (?)
- Learning OpenGL ES for iOS: A Hands-on Guide to Modern 3D Graphics Programming (2012) by Erik M. Buck Book website (including source codes & errata) -- Relies on GLKit that provides the fixed pipeline rendering (GLES ver 1.1) and other utilities.
- iPhone 3D Programming -- Developing Graphical Applications with OpenGL ES (2010) by Philip Rideout -- free online version (Amazon bookpage)
- Pro OpenGL ES for Android (2012) by Mike Smithwick, Mayank Verma -- Outdated: Deals with OpenGL ES 1.x (Don't buy this book.)
- WebGL : Up and Running (2012) by Tony Parisi -- Heavily relies on its own library, Three.js
- Professional WebGL programming : developing 3D graphics for the Web (2012) by Andreas Anyuru -- looks ok
- WebGL Beginner's Guide (2012) by Diego Cantor, Brandon Jones
Books on computer graphics in general
- Real-Time Rendering (2008) by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, and Naty Hoffman.
- OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3 (8th Edition) (2013) by Dave Shreiner, Graham Sellers, John M. Kessenich, Bill M. Licea-Kane - All the previous editions up to 7 are garbages. The rumor says this new edition will be totally re-written and expected to be good.
- Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) (2013) by John F. Hughes, Andries van Dam, Morgan McGuire, David F. Sklar, James D. Foley, Steven K. Feiner, Kurt Akeley - new edition after 18 years. The previous editions were "the bibles" in computer graphics.
Modern OpenGL (OpenGL 3.1 and later, OpenGL ES 2.0 and later, WebGL, etc.)
- David Bishop's homepage -- contains useful info
- Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming by Jason L. McKesson -- One of the best modern OpenGL tutorial (free + online)
- Swiftless Tutorials
OpenGL pipeline
- OpenGL Rendering Pipeline Overview (opengl.org)
- OpenGL ES 2.X (Khronos)
- GLSL Programming/OpenGL ES 2.0 Pipeline
- OpenGL pipeline map (OpenGL Insights)
- The Graphics Pipeline (Joe Groff)
Old OpenGL
- The Design of the OpenGL Graphics Interface (1994) Mark Segal and Kurt Akeley
- The OpenGL™ Graphics System A Specification (Version 1.0) (1994) Mark Segal and Kurt Akeley
Etc.

Computer Graphics
- ExtremeTech 3D Pipeline Tutorial (June 31, 2001)
- ANU (Australian National University) Computer Graphics Lecture Notes
OpenGL tutorials
- Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming by Jason L. McKesson
- Yet another OpenGL tutorial by Zavie
- OpenGLBook.com
- An intro to modern OpenGL (by Joe Groff)
- OpenGL tutorials (by Song Ho Ahn)
- Nate Robin's OpenGL Tutors
- Tutorials for OpenGL 3.3 and later
OpenGL books
- OpenGL SuperBible (3rd ed.) (e-book @UOS)
- OpenGL® Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL®, Versions 3.0 and 3.1, 7th Edition (e-book @UOS)
- OpenGL® Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL®, Release 1
- OpenGL® Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL®, Version 1.1 (free online version)
- OpenGL® ES 2.0 Programming Guide (e-book @UOS)
- Advanced Graphics Programming Using OpenGL (e-book @UOS)
- Beginning OpenGL Game Programming (e-book @UOS)
- Beginning OpenGL® Game Programming, Second Edition (e-book @UOS)
- OpenGL Game Development (e-book @UOS)
OpenGL-related
- OpenGL homepage
- OpenGL samples @SGI
- Siggraph '96 course source codes @MIT advanced.zip
- Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Rendering (SIGGRAPH `97 course) [BROKEN] [PDF]
- Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques Using OpenGL (SIGGRAPH `99 course) [BROKEN] [PDF #1 #2]
- OpenGL Video Tutorial (in English)
- 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
- [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
- glaux files
- OpenGL Extension Viewer: Displays information of the current OpenGL 3D accelerator.
- Illumination for computer generated pictures by Bui Tuong Phong
- 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.~~ On linux, compile using gcc not g++.
    - Jerome Jouvie's Java Applet
  - Bump mapping
    - Simple Bumpmapping by Paul
    - 2D Bump Mapping using Java
    - Siggraph '99 course sample: Try bumpmap.c.
Blender
- Blender homepage
- Blender UI
  - Blender UI
  - The Evolution of Blender's UI
- Blender Siggraph 2011 reel (YouTube)
- demo files
  - Blender 2.61 demo files
  - Blender 2.60 regression suite (70+ demo files) (31.2MB)
  - Browse blender demo files
- Tutorials
  - Blender 3D: Noob to Pro
  - Blender Guru
  - Blender Tuts
  - Blender Cookie
  - Tutorials for Blender 3D
  - Blender Nerd
  - Blender Cycles Tutorials and more
  - Blender Mesh
  - Blender 3D Design Course (includes many PDF tutorials)
- Step-by-step tutorials
  - Creating Volumetric Clouds (2.5)
  - static gingerbread man
  - animating the gingerbread man
  - Make a Statistical Map in Blender
  - Making of: Modeling a Revolver
  - Creating a Fancy Watch in Blender
  - Yellow Submarine
  - Blender 3D Design Course (includes many PDF tutorials)
- Blender Hot Keys
- [en] Blender 2.5 manual
- [en] tutorial: Your First Animation in 30 plus 30 Minutes Part I Part II
- [en] Introduction to Blender Python API
  Errors:
  - The argument for bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_cube_add is layers not layer.
  - The size of array for the layers argument of bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_cube_add is 20 not 32.
  - You should call import bpy at the beginning when running from the text editor.
- [en] Blender API documentation (v2.59.3)
- [en] Learning with Python 2nd Edition (Using Python 2.x) by Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers
- [ko] Video tutorial by DaeHee Kim @Youtube
- [ko] Blender manual
- [ko] Blender manual by danbee (HWP format)
- [ko] Tutorial for modeling a static gingerbread
- [ko] Naver Blender cafe
- [ko] (Another) Naver Blender cafe
- [en] Hotkeys Map
- [ko] More Blender links
- [en] Blender 3D: Noob to Pro
- [en] KatBits™ Blender 2.5 tutorials
- [en] A Detailed Overview of the Blender Interface (Video tutorial)
- [en] Blender Cookie (tutorials)
- [en] Blender 3D Design Course (tutorials)
- [en] Blender Basics Book (free)
- [en] Introduction to the Game Engine
Data visualization
- Datasets
  - Gapminder
  - DataVisualization.ch
  - visualization.org
  - data.gov by the United States
History of computer graphics
- (1963) Sketchpad by Ivan Sutherland (YouTube)
- (1965) Early 3D Computer Graphics From Bell Labs - AT&T Archives
History of video games (See the section 1.2.1 of the textbook) (See First video game from Wikipedia)
- (1952) tic-tac-toe (OXO) by A.S.Douglas
- (1958) Tennis for Two @Brookhaven National Laboratory (YouTube)
- (1962) Spacewar! by Steve Russel
- (1972) Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console designed by Ralph Baer (1973 commercial)
- (1979) Asteroids and Lunar Lander by Atari
- (1985) Eurythmy Motion Studies
- (1992) Wolfenstein 3D (Javascript Wolfenstein 3D)
Latest graphics in games/movies
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
- Geomview OFF file format
  - Geomview
  - Geomview Object File Format specification
- 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: library to load 3DS files
  - 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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