CS307: Computer Graphics

Welcome!

This is the home page for CS 307, Computer Graphics. If there's anything you'd like to see here that isn't, such as a link to a useful web site, or some documentation, please let me know.

Note that the assignments may change before they are assigned, which is at least a week before they are due.

Course Links

• The Syllabus
• The schedule of topics
• FAQ list for CS307
• Cross Product calculator
• Grade Sheet
• Style essay
• Feedback form for CS307
• Pairs Programming
• Directions for installing PyOpenGL and our stuff on the Macs
• the PyTW demos
• Past Student Work

Other Links

• OpenGL reference pages
• PyOpenGL reference pages
• U.S. Flag Specification. This was copied from http://www.vexman.net/
• Info on Maya
• Steve Baker's explanation of many graphics things
• History of the Teapot

Other online resources

• My C++ for Java Programmers (PDF).
• The OpenGL site
• OpenGL (GL/GLU) documentation
• The Mesa site Mesa is an API that works like OpenGL. Check out their web site for description and disclaimers. The price is right: zero.
• Glut Documentation
• An OpenGL Tutorial
• Tutorials at the OpenGL site
• Geometry Algorithms
• Emacs for Windows machines. If you like Emacs, you may want to install it on your Windows machines. (Mac OS X has Emacs available in the Terminal.)
• Wellesley's C Tutorial
• Yahoo's index of pages about C and C++ There are links to tutorial pages here.

Cartographic projections

• Map Projection in Wikipedia
• Peters Projection Map
• A more sober discussion of Gall-Peters versus Mercator and other maps
• Comparing different cylindrical projections
• The table of contents of the previous page
• A good description of Depth of Field

Animations

We've made some animations

Written by Scott D. Anderson
scott.anderson@acm.org

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.