CMPS 160 Home Page
Spring 2007

Instructor:	Suresh Lodha
Office:	E2-361
Phone	(831) 459-3773
email:	lodha@soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours:	M 2:30-4:00; Tu 2:00-3:00 and by appointment
Class Time:	TuTh 8:00-9:45
Place:	Merrill College Classroom 002
Teaching Assistant:	Jacob Telleen jtelleen@soe.ucsc.edu email for office hour appointments
Tutor:	Anton Kulikov akulikov@ucsc.edu
Lab Hours in BE Computer Lab 105:	Monday: 2:00-4:00 (Jacob 2-3; Anton 3:15-4:00) Tuesday: 4-7 (Jacob 4-5; Anton 5-7) Wednesday: 4-6 (Jacob 4-6; Anton 5-6) Thursday: 5-8 (Anton 5:00-5:45; Jacob 6-7)

Texts

OpenGL Primer (3rd Edition) Ed Angel, Addison-Wesley

OpenGL Texts

OpenGL Programming Guide (5th Edition) (aka The Red Book) Neider, David & Woo, Addison-Wesley

 

OpenGL Reference Manual, Version 2, 5th Edition Addison-Wesley

 

 

OpenGL Superbible Richard Wright and Michael Sweet, Waite Group Press

OpenGL Shading Language (2nd Edition) Randi Rost

FLTK Manual

Reference Texts

• Computer Graphics: Theory Into Practice
  Jeffrey J. McConnell
• Computer Graphics with OpenGL (3rd Edition)
  Hearn and Baker
• Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top Down Approach with OpenGL (4th Edition)
  Edward Angel, Addison-Wesley
• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
  Peter Shirley, A K Peters


• Real-Time Rendering (2nd Edition)
  Tomas Moller, Eric Haines, and Tomas Akenine-Moller


• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
  Foley, Van Dam, feiner and Hughes, Addison-Wesley
• Graphics Gems I, II, III, IV, V
  Glassner, Arvo, Kirk, Heckbert (respectively)

Handouts

• Schedule
• Syllabus
• Required Work

Homework Assignments

Homework 1 due Tuesday, May 22

Homework 2 due Thursday, May 31

Programming Assignments

• Program 1 due Wednesday, April 11 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout )
• Program 2 due Wednesday, April 18 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout )
• Program 3 due Wednesday, May 9 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout )
• Program 4 due Wednesday, May 23 ( FLTK/OpenGL Handout )
• Project due Wednesday, June 13, 12-1

Grading

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

40% Theory (30% for midterms, 5% homework, 5% 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