ResourcesCSE167F13

Text Books and Resources

All exam relevant material will be taught in class, and the instructor's lecture slides will be available on-line. For more detailed descriptions of the covered topics, the instructor recommends the following text books for this course. Both are available on-line, at least in 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, 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 Note that the latest version of the book covers a newer version of OpenGL, whereas in class we use the original OpenGL. So don't buy this book if it covers OpenGL 3.0 or higher.

Useful Links

3D Graphics

• Excellent introduction to OpenGL
• NeHe Productions OpenGL Tutorials
• Humus 3D: lots of advanced graphics algorithms, but not all in OpenGL
• Website of the book on real-time rendering by Tomas Akenine-Moeller with lots of useful links
• Steven C. Dollins' Handy Mathematics Facts for Graphics

Shader Programming

• Lighthouse3D GLSL tutorials
• Clockworkcoders GLSL tutorials
• GLSL quick reference
• GLSL reference documentation
• Binding images to GLSL samplers

C++ Programming

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

Advanced Graphics Programming

• GPU Gems 1
• GPU Gems 2
• GPU Gems 3
• Programming in OpenGL 3: Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming