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Fall 2004

The final project requires a project report. See the link to the final project for more details. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. The abstract should briefly tell the reader what the project does. The abstract should highlight why this project is important or interesting.
Save the details for the main text of the report.
There is a submittal directory called final.
For Example: % submit cmps160-dw.f04 final main.cxx Makefile gui.cxx gui.h \
gl_window.cxx gl_window.h
To check what you have submitted %peek cmps160-dw.f04 final

It would be nice if you submitted your code. I won't be evaluating your grade on this submitted code, but it can only help you if I want to give you more points on your project. (So that I may run the project, not look over the code)

Instructor:	Dr. Doanna Weissgerber
Office:	E2 267 Baskin Engineering
Phone	There is no phone in my office
email:	doanna@soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours:	Wednesday 2-3 and by appointment
Class Time:	MWF 3:30-4:40
Place:	Cowell College Classroom 131
Final Exam Time:	Tuesday December 7, 2004   4:00-7:00pm Jack Baskin Engineering Room 109 (PC Lab) Attendance in computer lab for all demonstrations required
Teaching Assistant:	Oliver Wang
Tutor:	TBA TBA@soe.ucsc.edu
Lab Hours in Jack Baskin Engineering 109:	Monday: 11am-1pm (Oliver Wang TA) Tuesday: 10am-12pm (Oliver Wang TA) Wednesday: 11am-1pm (Oliver Wang TA) Wednesday: 1pm-3pm (Oliver Wang TA)

Texts

Required Text Computer Graphics with OpenGL (3rd Edition)
Donald Hearn & M. Pauline Baker, Prentice Hall

OpenGL Primer Ed Angel, Addison-Wesley

OpenGL Texts

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

 

OpenGL Reference Manual Addison-Wesley

 

 

OpenGL Superbible Richard Wright and Michael Sweet, Waite Group Press

FLTK Manual

Reference Texts

Computer Graphics, C Version (2nd Edition) by Donald Hearn and Pauline Baker, Prentice Hall

• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
  Peter Shirley, A K Peters
• 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)
• Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top Down Approach with OpenGL
  Edward Angel, Addison-Wesley

Midterms

• Midterm 1 key
• Midterm 1 will be on Monday October 25^th
• it will cover chapters 1-5 and part of chapter 6 (Through Liang-Barsky Line Clipping section 6-7)
• Sample Midterm
• Midterm 2 key
• Midterm 2 will on Monday November 29^th
• Be able to do homework Homework 3-6
  • Answers to Homework 6 posted by Wednesday Night
• Understand Fractals (see slides from November 22)
• Initiator and Generator
  • Be able to draw a fractal given an initiator and generator. I will ask for at MOST three iterations
• Fractal Dimension
  • Be able to determine Fractal Dimensions
• Understand Grammar based modeling (see slides from November 22)
• be able to generate a tree from a basic grammar
• be able to generate a tree from a "Turtle graphics"

Handouts

• Grading Policy
• Schedule
• FINAL PROJECT
• key dates are 11/5, 11/12, 12/7
• Week 3 Day 1 Powerpoint Slides
• Week 3 Day 2 Powerpoint Slides
• Week 4 Day 1 Powerpoint Slides
• Week 4 Day 2 Powerpoint Slides
• Some of the spline Powerpoint Slides
• Fractal, grammar, particle systems Slides November 22nd

Homework Assignments

Homework #5 Phong Shading is missing a few variables.
The light vector is <1,1,0>
The viewing vector is <1,0,1>
The specular reflection variable n_s is 2
Homework 1 Due October 6th at beginning of class.     Homework 1 Answers
Homework 2 Due October 20^th at beginning of class.     Homework 2 Answers
Homework 3 Due Monday November 8^th at the beginning of class.     Homework 3 Answers
Homework 4 Due Friday Novermber 12^th     Homework 4 Answers
Homework 5 Due Wednesday November 17^th    Homework 5 Answers
Homework 6 Due Wednesday November 24th     Homework 6 Answers
Homework 7 Handed out December 1, due on December 3^rd     Homework 7 Answers

Programming Assignments

• Makefile for Program 1
  Program 1 due Monday, October 4. Bring hard copy to BEGINNING of class on Monday  
• FLTK GL demo starting code
  Program 2 due October 17 
• FLTK GL CubeView demonstration code
  height field files for program 3
  Height fields are now available on the cats system in directory /afs/cats.ucsc.edu/courses/cmps160-dw/public_html
  You should be able to link the files to your directory instead of copying them.
  Program 3 due October 29^th  
• Program 4 Due date extended due November 10^th  
  Location of glut library on CATS is /opt/local/glut-3.7/lib/glut/libglut.a
  Location of glut include directory on CATS is /opt/local/glut-3.7/include/GL/glut.h

Final Exam

• Final Project
  
  • key dates are 11/5, 11/15, 12/7
  • Note: 11/15 is an extension
  
  

Grading

60% Programming (30% assignments and 30% final project)

40% Theory (30% for midterms, 10% homework and class participation)

Links to Other Information

• 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.
• Here is an example of texture setup by Jon Cheatham if you use it, please cite him in your code and paper.

Maintained by Doanna Weissgerber