Computer Graphics (fall,2016): links

WebGL1

books
- WebGL Programming Guide (2013) recommended
- WebGL : Up and Running (2012) by Tony Parisi -- Heavily relies on the library, Three.js
- Professional WebGL programming : developing 3D graphics for the Web (2012) by Andreas Anyuru -- looks ok
- “WebGL Beginner's Guide” (Amazon) (2012) by Diego Cantor, Brandon Jones Book examples
Web materials
- WebGL Report: Checks the browser support for WebGL
- WebGLRenderingContext @MDN (Mozilla Developer Network)
- OpenGL ES 2.0 Reference Pages
- OpenGL ES 2.0 API Quick Reference Card
- The OpenGL ES Shading Language version 1.0 Specification (pdf) (for OpenGL ES 2.0 / WebGL 1.0)
- WebGL @MDN (Mozilla Developer Network)
- WebGL Public Wiki
- JavaScript reference @MDN
- Getting Started with WebGL by MDN (Mozilla Developer Network)
- Learning WebGL by Tony Parisi (Korean translation: WebGL 레슨 by Joon Kyoung)
- WebGL Fundamentals by Gregg Tavares
- An Introduction to WebGL @Dev.Opera by Luz Caballero
- WebGL Tutorial @TutorialsPoint.com
- WebGL Academy
- Raw WebGL by Nick Desaulniers (lecture slides)

WebGL 2

Books
- “Real-Time 3D Graphics with WebGL 2 - Second Edition” (Amazon) (2018) by Farhad Ghayour and Diego Cantor (2nd edition of “WebGL Beginner's Guide”)
- “WebGL2: A practical approach to learn computer 3D graphics and games” (2018) by Hooman Salamat
Web materials
- “WebGL2 Fundamentals” by Gregg Tavares (recommended)
- OpenGL ES 3.0 Reference Pages
- OpenGL ES 3.0 Shading Language Reference Pages (for WebGL 2.0)
- WebGL2RenderingContext @MDN (Mozilla Developer Network)
- WebGL2Samples
- WebGL 2.0 lecture slides @Siggraph 2015

WebGL Examples

Book examples of “WebGL Beginner's Guide” (Amazon) (2012) by Diego Cantor, Brandon Jones
webglsamples.org
WebGL Wiki Demo Repository
finalmesh.com
3dviewer.net
20 amazing examples of WebGL in action
30 Stunning WebGL Examples and Demos

Models

References
- OpenGL 4 reference (including GLSL)
- freeglut API referene
- GLEW basics
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 modern OpenGL
- OpenGL Superbible (6th edition) (2013) by Graham Sellers, Richard S. Wright, Nicholas Haemel - one of classics
- Anton's OpenGL 4 Tutorial (2014) - good. e-book only (Amazon kindle format) very cheap (about $6)
- 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 (The e-book version can be accessed inside the school.) - All the previous editions up to 7 are useless now. ...But this edition is not that good either.
- OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook - Second Edition (2013) by David Wolff
- OpenGL Development Cookbook (2013) by Muhammad Mobeen Movania (Samples can be downloaded here.)
OpenGL ES
- OpenGL ES Programming Guide for iOS (2014) by Apple
- OpenGL® ES 3.0 Programming Guide (2nd edition) (2014) by Dan Ginsburg and Budirijanto Purnomo
- 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.)
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.)
- SIGGRAPH University : “An Introduction to OpenGL Programming” - a video lecture at SIGGRAPH 2013 by Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner
- 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)
- Modern OpenGL Tutorials by Etay Meiri
- 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)

OpenGL/GLSL demos/samples

book samples

book title	source code download
Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming by Jason L. McKesson's	download
OpenGL Shading Language Cookbook	download
OpenGL Development Cookbook	download

Shadertoy
from geeks3d.com
- MadShaders Win64 / OSX / Linux
- GLSL Hacker Win64 / OSX / Linux
- GLSL Shader Library
- GeeXLab Win
Real Time 3D Demoniak3D Demos Windows executables
from NVIDIA
- NVIDIA GameWorks™ OpenGL Samples Win / Liux

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
3D models
- Sketchfab
Etc.
Tools
- apitrace: Helper tools for debugging OpenGL/DirectX

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.

WebGL Links

Blender Links

OpenGL Links

Old Links