CMPS 160 Home Page
Fall 2001

Texts

F.S. Hill, Jr., 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall

OpenGL Texts

OpenGL Programming Guide (aka The Red Book) Neider, David & Woo, Addison-Wesley

OpenGL Reference Manual Addison-Wesley

Reference Texts

• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
  Foley, Van Dam, feiner and Hughes, Addison-Wesley
• Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics
  David Rogers and J.Alan Adams
• Graphics Gems I, II, III, IV, V
  Glassner, Arvo, Kirk, Heckbert (respectively)

Course Information

• Course Overview
• Tentative Course Schedule
• 2001 Practice Exam 1 .pdf
• Exam Solutions .txt
• Exam 1 Solutions .txt
• OpenGL Picking .txt
• 2001 Practice Exam (whole course).pdf

Class Newsgroup

• ucsc.class.cmp160 - for announcements, general discussion, and help

Programming Assignments and Project

• Program 1 - Tic-Tac-Toe due M 10/1
• Program 2 - Animation due F 10/19
• Program 3 - Shading due F 11/14
• Extra Credit due by W 11/31 to Narayan.
• Final Project due Noon, 12/4 (proposal description due 11/9).
• Project Schedule.
• Your Grades So Far

Links to Other Information

• Official UCSC Guideline on Academic Integrity.
• To register for a new CATS account.
  
• OpenGL.org site.
• Mesa, a freeware version of OpenGL for most platforms (Linux, MacOS, Windows, etc).
• A game programming site that offers some interesting tutorials on graphics programming.
• XForms documentation.
• Here is an example of texture setup by Jon Cheatham if you use it, please site him in your code and paper.
• Dave's Math Tables is a math reference site. On it, you'll find the basic trig identities and a description of the general functions (it's in the aptly named "Trig" section). There's also stuff on Algebra, Calculus, and Linear Algebra (which may be helpful if you plan to do direct matrix manipulation of some sort).