ResourcesCSE167S16

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, Fourth Edition, 2015 (earlier editions will also work). A K Peters/CRC Press, ISBN 1482229390 Author's site, Amazon.com, On-Line at Google Books
Dave Shreiner: OpenGL Programming Guide, Version 4.3. Pearson Education, PDF version here.

Useful Links

3D Graphics

• Excellent introduction to OpenGL
• 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

• Tutorials for OpenGL 3 and up in which the immediate mode has been deprecated.
• GPU Gems 1
• GPU Gems 2
• GPU Gems 3
• Programming in OpenGL 3: Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming