Index of class resources

Handouts — homework problem sets, homework solutions, other helpful handouts
General Class Information — class and section times, instructor and TA information
Grades — check your grades online 
Links — links to external resources 

• Course Syllabus
• Course Schedule
• Resources and Guidelines
• Practice Exams
  • Whole Course Practice Exam
• Homework
• Program 1: Image Evolution
  • Template code (Unix, Windows (Project files for Visual C++ 6.0 + FLTK header and library files))
  • Sample output (Unix, Windows)
• Program 2: Basketball
• Template code (Unix, Windows)
• Sample output (Unix, Windows)
• FLUID windows binary
• A short tutorial on how to use FLUID
• Program 3: Terrain Modeling
  • Some suggestions on picking with OpenGL
  • Some sample code for picking in 3d with OpenGL: select.c  disp_utils.c
  • Template code (Unix, Windows)
  • Sample output (Unix, Windows)
  • Sample clouds texture clouds.ppm (keep it in the same directory as the binary).
  • Sample code for lighting and normal computation snippets.c
  • Code for reading PPM (Portable Pixel Map) files ppm.cpp
  • Modified templates (these include texture mapping samples) UNIX Windows
• Final Project
  • Final Project Schedule

Class Newsgroup:

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

Lecture times:

MWF, 3:30pm-4:40pm, Location BE 156

Section times:

Tuesday (1:00pm - 2:00pm), BE 105

Wednesday (6:00pm - 7:00pm), BE 105

Thursday (5:00pm - 6:00pm), BE 105

Friday (11:00am - 12:00pm), BE 105

Friday (12:00pm - 1:00pm), BE 105

Instructor:

Name: Jane Wilhelms (wilhelms@cs.ucsc.edu)

Phone: 459-2440

Office: 345 Baskin Engineering

Instructor Office Hours:

1:30-3:30 M

and by appointment or just drop-in

Teaching Assistant(s):

Name: Amin Charaniya (amin@cse.ucsc.edu)

Phone: 459-2307

Office: BE 254B

Office Hours:

Discussion Sections shown above

Reader(s)/Tutor(s):

Name: Eric Pan (pane@cats.ucsc.edu) Hours: T and Th 5:30-7:30pm, BE 105

Name: Darren Fitzpatrick (darrenf@cats.ucsc.edu) Hours: M and W 1:15-3:15pm, BE 105

OpenGL Red Book

OpenGL.org

FLTK documentation

Nate Robbins OpenGL Tutorials (This is an excellent source for 3D Viewing Transformations)

NVIDIA developer page

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.