COSC 3P98 Computer Graphics

Instructor: Brian Ross (bross @ brocku.ca)
Lecture: Wednesday 7:00-10:00pm AS202
TA: Steve Bergen
Consulting hours: Go to help desk (J304).

COSC 3P98 Gallery.

Course info

• Course outline

• Texts (recommended)
  • Computer Graphics with OpenGL (4e) by D. Hearn, M.P. Baker, W. Carithers. Prentice Hall, 2010. ISBN: 0136053580.
  • OpenGL: A Primer (3e) by Edward Angel. Addison-Wesley, 2007, ISBN 0321398114.
  • OpenGL Programming Guide, Version 2.1, OpenGL ARB. Addison-Wesley, 2007, ISBN 0321481003.
  • The C Programming Language (2e) by Brian W Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie. Prentice Hall, 1989, ISBN 0131103628.

• Assignment 1
  • New deadline: 12:00 noon Friday February 11.
  • Lates (-25%): 12:00 noon Monday February 14.
  • Marking template 1
• Assignment 2
  • New deadline: 12:00 noon, Monday March 14.
    No lates accepted!
    Please submit your assignment electronically by this deadline.
  • Marking template 2
• Assignment 3
  • Marking template 3
  • Some hints on how to make assignment 3 faster!

• COSC assignment cover page.
• Old exams.

• Course project
  • Essay option due date: 12:00 noon, Friday April 29. No lates accepted.
    • Please submit essays to Turnitin.com. The course is COSC 3P98 Computer Graphics (ID# TBA). (See email for more info).
  • Application/animation due date: 12:00 noon, Monday May 9.
  • Here is an example of how formatting looks for a scientific paper (abstract, sections, citations, bibliography, etc.):
  • Installation information:
    • Poser: csj31001-csj31010 (front 2 rows J310)
    • Bryce: csj31011-csj31020 (back 2 rows J310)
    • "Real-Time Competitive Evolutionary Computation" by Adam Hewgill, Brock TR CS-02-17. Here is the system.
    • Writing guide for science students

• Run OpenGL programs on Sandcastle remotely on your Windows PC: instructions.

• Bibliography of books shown in class.

Lectures

1. Introduction
2. OpenGL
   • Glut quick reference
3. 2D scan conversion
4. Computational geometry
5. 2D and 3D Transformations
6. 3D Perspective
7. Visible Surface Determination
8. Illumination
9. Ray Tracing
10. Textures
11. Animation
12. Misc: hardware, etc.

13. Mesh surfaces

Textbook reading

Computer Graphics with OpenGL (Hearn, Baker):

• ch. 1
• ch. 2
• ch. 3: skip sections on concave polys, circles, ellipses
• ch. 4: basic colour, line attributes, irregular fill algs
• ch. 6: basic 2D window setup and GLUT library calls
• ch. 11: GLUT I/O details
• ch. 5: 2D and 3D transformations
• ch. 7: 3D viewing: orthogonal and perspective projections
• ch. 9: visible surface determination
• ch. 10: illumination, textures
• ch. 13: animation

OpenGL Primer (E. Angel)

• Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Assignment programming information

• 3P98 OpenGL examples

• Windows and Linux
  • Updated: Tutorial for setting up OpenGL, Glut and Freeimage in our lab.
  • (Old) Tutorial for setting up MS Visual Studio .NET for OpenGL, GLUT and FreeImage. Linux is discussed at the end.
  • Example archive: Zip file of OpenGL examples, FreeImage example, tutorial, and GLUT and FreeImage DLL's for Windows.
  • Go to the GLUT and FreeImage web sites for most current libraries (more information below).

• Linux issues:
  • With the above program examples, alter the Makefile for your particular Linux as appropriate. A compile flag switches between Windows or Linux dependent code.
  • Our labs support RedHat Linux. All the required library files (OpenGL, GLUT, FreeImage) are installed already. If you want to use your own Linux platform, you will need to download and install...
    • OpenGL (usually bundled with your graphics card).
    • GLUT (see below)
    • FreeImage (see below)

• OpenGL resources
  • The Red Book Online
  • OpenGL code examples from "OpenGL Programming Guide 1.2" (Red Book)
  • Some OpenGL and Glut demos (on sandcastle:/www/Offerings/3P98/course/OpenGL/glut-3.7)
  • OpenGL Organization Web Site
  • GLUT and OpenGL Tutorials and Resources
  • OpenGL 2.0 Shading Language
  • Some good OpenGL tutorials

GLUT:

• Glut web site: download GLUT source, libraries, docs...
• GLUT Manual: PDF
• Online documentation at Sourceforge.
• Short Glut article (local copy, postscript).
• FreeGLUT: an open-source version of GLUT that is being maintained and updated

FreeImage:

• Freeimage web site: download latest version, docs, etc.
• A simple FreeImage example for Windows and Linux. (see the file FreeImageTest.c, and Load.c)
• More TIFF images

Processing (project?)

• Processing.org
• Relentless, the REV. Done with Processing.
• Butterfly - Glenn Marshall Computer Art: animations done with Processing.

Miscellaneous...

• SIGGRAPH 2011 (Vancouver, BC): Student volunteer program
• Wolfenstein 1D: a 1D version of the 2D classic
• GLUI: A Glut-based interface library
• Archive3D free high-quality 3D models
• Mesa 3D Graphics Library free OpenGL library for Unix, Windows, OS/2,...
• DXF: a common 3D-modeling file format
  • 3D models (dxf)
  • DXF file format spec
• VRML: (Virtual reality modeling language)
  • Local copy of VRML97 specs (1.9Mb, PDF file).
  • You should use indexed face sets to create polygons in VRML.
    Here's an example. Here's an even simpler example.
• Misc odds and ends (Brock local access)

Interesting Links

• Pioneer Anomaly Solved by 1970s Computer Graphics Technique (Technology Review)
• At a Columbia Lab, Perfecting Animation (NY Times)
• Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal (Skytopia)
• Creating 3D models with a simple web cam (Cambridge U)
• Sony 360-degree 3D display (Gizmodo)
• Video appears in paper magazines (BBC)
• Triangulation as interactive art (Synthtopia)
• Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game (CNN)
• Paintball demo by Myth Busters guys: CPU VS GPU (NVidia)
• Online worlds to be AI incubators (BBC)
• Empathic Art (Infoworld)
• How to make a gigapixel image (BBC)

Siggraph and SIGGRAPH 2009 student volunteers program
• Graphics Gems Repository
• Bibliographics on Computer Graphics and Vision
• Image Processing learning Resources
• Computational geometry on the web
• Geometry Algorithm home
• Geometry Formulas and Facts (CRC Press)
• Animated 2D/3D Convex Hull Algorithms (java)
• Convex Hull applets (and others)
• Delaunay triangulation applet

• Jonathan Puckey - Delaunay Art
• Scott Draves - Software Artist
• Hyposurface
• alex dragulescu: create art from spam email
• Daniel Rozin Interactive Art
• Bathsheba Grossman Sculptures: sculptures done with computer-controlled direct-metal printing
• Protrude, Flow - computer controlled magnetic fluid models (SIGGRAPH 2001)

• NVidia developer web site: See the free GPU Gems books!
• Makerbot: affordable 3D printers!
• Peggy 2.0 - programmable LED display. Example application.
• Datacolor monitor calibration hardware
• ColorEdge CD241W monitor
• Human Head via NVidia hardware
• DirectX 10 vs OpenGL 2.1
• NeHe: OpenGL Game development, including tutorials.

• Peripetics
• UFO Haiti (Youtube). Done with e-on Vue 6.
• Attack - Los Roques UFO pt 3 (Youtube)
• Fluid dynamics (CG Group, U Montreal
• Fiat Lux

• Algorithmic art
• Reactable: a musical instrument using a Tangible User Interface.
• Tenori-On: a musical instrument with a graphical interface. Here's a free album of music made on it: 7 days microsleep
• Online RGB Chart
• Ray-Traced Quake 4
• sodaplay: interactive 2D animation
• Ken Perlin's Noise Site
• Pixar
• EasyRGB : colour tools, analyses, conversion formula
• A morphable model for the synthesis of 3D faces
• ventrella.com - excellent Alife and other graphics
• Framsticks - Artificial Life 3D evolution and simulation
• Biota.org - digital biology project - lots of VRML!
• Free WRL - co-developed by Brock graduate!
• Computer Graphics World
• Studica :educational discounts (Toronto)

Commercial products

• Bryce 6
• Poser 7
• AGEIA physics engine
• Softimage
• Autodesk: 3D Studio Max, Maya
• e-on software: Vue 6
• Adobe
• Natural Motion: Use genetic algorithms to evolve complex animated behaviours
• Laminar Research - OpenGL games
• GenArts, Inc.
• Caligari
• Rhino 3D
• PhotoModeler - make 3D models from photographs
• Mensi Software - 3D models from images

Freeware / Shareware

• Processing: media-programming language
• Pure Data - graphical programming environment
• Pure Dyne - OS for media artists
• OGRE 3D - 3D graphics engine
• Blender - 3D animation system
• Milkshape - 3D modeller (Linux) with export to C data structures
• Alice - learn to program in 3D
• Terragen - terrain modeler/renderer
• Povray - lots of renderers, modelers, tools for PC's
• Lparser
• Knot - 3D knot creator
• Irfanview - 2D image viewer/converter
• GIMP

Hardware:

• ATI Technologies - 3D cards (Toronto)
• NVidia - 3D cards
• MCor Technologies: 3D printers. For example.
• Renderdrive
• 3D Labs - 3D chip developers
• Roland 3D scanners
• Polhemus - hand held laser scanner
• GPGPU - general purpose computation using graphics h/w

Computer graphics industry in Canada: (Am I missing any? Please let me know.)

• ACD Systems (Victoria, BC)
• ALT Software Inc. (Toronto, ON)
• ATI Technologies (Thornhill, ON)
• BioWare (Edmonton, AB)
• Corel Corporation (Ottawa, ON)
• EA Canada (Burnaby, BC)
• Matrox Graphics (Dorval, QC)
• Radical Entertainment (Vancouver, BC)
• Rockstar (Toronto and Vancouver)
• Side Effects Software (Toronto, ON)
• Softimage (Montreal, QC)
• Ubisoft (Montreal, QC)
• VFXrecruit: recruitment site for graphics/animation industry

Animation information

• U&I Software Bryce Gallery
• Poser Community
• Digital Blasphemy
• Shifted Reality
• Texture library

Computer animation instruction in Canada and elsewhere:

• Sheridan College
• Seneca College
• Vancouver Film School
• USC School of Cinema-Television

Go to Brock Computer Science home page.