Links

General Links

• applets at Princeton University
• an online computer graphics book

OpenGL

• http://www.opengl.org/ – lots of information about OpenGL
• OpenGL Programming Guide (Red book) (version 1.1 is available online, the current 5^th edition that can be purchased is updated to OpenGL version 2.0)
• OpenGL 2.1 Reference Pages
• OpenGL extensions list (mostly nVidia)
• online papers from many computer graphics conferences
• OpenGL tutors that allow you to interactively explore OpenGL concepts (for example, transformations, lights, and viewing).

GPU Topics

• GPU Gems 1
• GPU Gems 2

Texture Mapping - Solar System

• NASA's solar system simulator with maps for planets and moons
• JHT's planet texture maps for planets and their moons including bump maps, displacement maps, and more
• Steve Albers' planetary maps
• more planetary maps

Texture Mapping - Bump Maps

• bump maps for a stone wall from Unity manual (see at the bottom of the page)
• another stone wall with bump map
• brick texture and associated bump map
• the gargoyle texture and bump map from the example shown in class

Color

• VisCheck to simulate color blindness
• Ishihara Test 1
• Ishihara Test 2
• Ishihara Test 3 (Wikipedia)

Global Illumination: Raytracing and Radiosity

• POV-Ray
• POV-Ray Hall of Fame (example images)
• The Workings of a Radiosity Renderer
• Online raytracer
• Another online raytracer

Curves and Smooth Surfaces

• Java Applet for the DeCasteljau algorithm
• A tool to experiment with splines
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project: DeCasteljau algorithm
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project: Simple spline curves
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project: B-spline curve with knots
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project: B-spline basis functions
• Interpolating Cardinal and Catmull-Rom splines including Java applet
• Program to play with Bézier surfaces

Computer Graphics at Other Schools

• CS123 Brown University