CMPS 160 Home Page
Spring 2003

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Instructor:	Suresh Lodha
Office:	241 Baskin Engineering
Phone	(831) 459-3773
email:	lodha@soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours:	MW 3:00-4:30 and by appointment
Class Time:	MWF 9:30-10:40
Place:	Social Sciences 2, Room 179
Teaching Assistant:	Amin Charaniya amin@soe.ucsc.edu email for office hour appointments
Teaching Assistant:	Srikumar Ramalingam srikumar@soe.ucsc.edu email for office hour appointments
Lab Assistants	Benjamin Kohler-Crowe
Lab Hours in Baskin Engineering 105:	Monday: 5-7pm Tuesday: 11-12:00 noon, 8-9pm Wednesday: 2-4pm (Benjamin), 5-7pm Thursday: 11-12 noon, 2-4 pm (Benjamin), 8-9pm Lead Discussion section(s): Monday 5-6, Tuesday 8-9

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Texts

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

OpenGL Texts

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

OpenGL Reference Manual Addison-Wesley

OpenGL Primer Ed Angel, Addison-Wesley

OpenGL Superbible Richard Wright and Michael Sweet, Waite Group Press

FLTK Manual

Reference Texts

• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
  Peter Shirley, A K Peters
• Computer Graphics: C Version
  Donald Hearn & M. Pauline Baker, Prentice Hall
• 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

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Handouts

• Overview
• Schedule
• Contents
• Work

Homework Assignments

Assignment 1
Homework 1
Due May 30, Friday at the beginning of the class

Assignment 2
Homework 2
Due June 4, Wednesday at the beginning of the class

Programming Assignments

• Program 1 due Thursday, April 10 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout ) ( Solution )
• Program 2 due Thursday, April 17 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout ) ( Solution 1 and Solution 2 )
• Program 3 due Tuesday, April 29 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout ) ( Virtual trackball sample program ) ( Solution 1 )
• Program 4 due Thursday, May 8 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout ) (Sample Output , Solution1 (Andy Ames) and Solution2 (John Powell)).

• Final Project
  
  

Examination

• Sample Exam
  
  

Class Newsgroup

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

If you are working in one of the UCSC machines (CATS/CSE) click on the above link and subscribe it to the newsgroup with the required information.

To access the newsgroup from outside the UCSC domain please follow the procedure in http://www.warped.org/max/ucsc/howto-news-external.html

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 site him in your code and paper.

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Maintained by Suresh Lodha