Revision as of 12:42, 22 September 2011

Text Books and Resources

The instructor recommends the following text books for this course. Both are available on-line, at least older versions, which will work just fine for the class.

• Peter Shirley, Steve Marschner: _Fundamentals of Computer Graphics_, Third Edition, 2009 (earlier editions okay for the class). A K Peters Ltd., ISBN 1568811241 Author's site, Publisher's site, Amazon.com, On-Line at Google Books

• Dave Shreiner: _OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning !OpenGL, Version 2.1_. Pearson Education, ISBN 8131721841, at Amazon. An older version is on-line: Version 1.1,alternate link, sample programs

Useful Links

3D Graphics

• OpenGL Reference Manual (Blue Book)
• NeHe Productions OpenGL Tutorials
• Website of the book on real-time rendering by Tomas Akenine-Moeller with lots of useful links

Shader Programming

• Lighthouse3D GLSL tutorials
• Clockworkcoders GLSL tutorials
• GLSL quick reference
• GLSL reference documentation

C++ Programming

• C++ FAQ by Marshall Cline
• C++ for Java programmers