Getting Started

• How to build an OpenGL/GLUT Program on our lab machines
• Creating your first OpenGL Program in Visual Studio 6.
• Creating your first OpenGL Program in Visual Studio 6.
• Creating your first OpenGL Program in Visual Studio .NET.
• An example Visual Studio 6 project: points.zip.
• An example Visual Studio .NET project: testFreeGlut.zip.
• Programming style guidelines.

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Working on Your Own System (use at own risk)

• If you do decide to code on your own machine, you will need to port and test your code on the Faculty's Windows 2000/XP machines prior to handing it in.
• Installing FreeGLUT for Visual Studio 6, OpenGL should already be installed.
• Installing FreeGLUT for Visual Studio .NET, OpenGL should already be installed.
• Installing FreeGLUT for Visual Studio 2008, OpenGL should already be installed.
• A linux version of OpenGL is available at: Mesa3D.
• A linux RPM version of GLUT is available here.
• Here's a link for working on a Mac.

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Online Textbook Material

• The Textbook's Companion Website.
• Mistakes in the Textbook.

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Online Texts

• OpenGL 1.1 Programming Guide (HTML).
• OpenGL 1.1 Reference (HTML).

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Other Reference Texts

• Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice, Alan Watt and Mark Watt. Addison-Wesley, 1992.
• Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, David Ebert, F. Kenton Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin and Steven Worley. Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
• Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques, Rick Parent, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2001.
• Computer Graphics Using Open GL, Francis S. Hill. Prentice Hall, 2000.
• Computer Graphics: Mathematical First Steps, William Hall, Patricia Egerton and Pat Egerton, Prentice Hall, 1998.

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