CMPS 160 Home Page
Spring 2004

Instructor:	Suresh Lodha
Office:	241 Baskin Engineering
Phone	(831) 459-3773
email:	lodha@soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours:	MW after class, Tu 2-4 and by appointment
Class Time:	MWF 9:30-10:40
Place:	Cowell College Classroom 134
Teaching Assistant:	Wei Shen weishen@soe.ucsc.edu email for office hour appointments
Tutor:	Andrew Ames agames@soe.ucsc.edu
Lab Hours in Crown Computer Lab 201:	Monday: 11:30-12:30 noon (WeiShen), 6-7pm(WeiShen) Tuesday: 2-4pm(AndrewAmes) Wednesday: 6-8pm(WeiShen) Thursday: 11-1 noon(WeiShen), 3-5pm(WeiShen)

Texts

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

Handouts

• Schedule
• Contents
• Work
• FINAL PROJECT

Homework Assignments

Homework 1
Due May 26, Wednesday at the beginning of the class
Homework 2
Due June 2, Wednesday at the beginning of the class

Programming Assignments

• Program 1 due Thursday, April 8 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout )  (Solution1 (Daniel Keller) and Solution2 (Brian Johnson))
• Program 2 due Thursday, April 15 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout )  (Solution1 (Josh Strater) and Solution2 (Daniel Keller))
• Program 3 due Tuesday, April 27 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout ) ( Solution 1 (Daniel Keller) and Solution2 (Josh Strater))
• Program 4 due Thursday, May 6 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout ) ( Solution 1 (Daniel Keller) and Solution2 (Jonathan Yan))

Grading

50% Programming (25% assignments and 25% final project)

50% Theory (30% for midterms, 10% homework, 10% class participation)

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.

Maintained by Suresh Lodha