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OpenGL: A Primer
Edward Angel, University of New Mexico

ISBN-10: 0201741865
ISBN-13: 9780201741865

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 235 pp
Published: 06/19/2001

This concise introduction to OpenGL version 1.2 is ideal for students in a graphics course that requires programming using OpenGL. In this primer, best-selling author Edward Angel presents the commands, provides examples, and discusses common beginners' pitfalls when talking about: two-dimensional programs; interaction and animation; three-dimensional programs; transformations; lights and materials; bits and pixels; texture mapping; curves and surfaces; as well as some advanced features. Open GL: A Primer is designed to be a companion to a textbook that covers computer graphics principles.

Available FREE to all adopters of Angel's Interactive Computer Graphics, 2e for Fall and Spring semesters: order using ISBN 0-201-74892-4.

Provides an introduction to basic OpenGL 1.2 commands.

Presents a non-mathematical treatment of OpenGL that covers the “how to” and gets students programming quickly with OpenGL.

Each chapter introduces a set of commands and develops two running program examples that apply these.

All chapters include a discussion of common pitfalls.

Code is written on the SGI platform and checked in Windows, UNIX and Linux.

Preface.

1. Getting Started.

The OpenGL API.

Three Views of OpenGL.

OpenGL Functions.

OpenGL Versions of Extensions.

Languages.

Programming Conventions.

Compiling.

Sources.

Who Should Use this Primer.

Outline.

2. Two-Dimensional Programming in OpenGL.

A Simple Program

GLUT.

Event Loops and Callback Functions.

Drawing a Rectangle.

Changing the GLUT Defaults.

Color in OpenGL.

Coordinate System Differences Between BLUT and OpenGL.

Two-Dimensional Viewing.

Coordinate Systems and Transformations.

Second Version of a Simple Program.

Primitives and Attributes.

Polygon Types.

Color Interpolation.

Text.

Inquires and Errors.

Saving the State.

The Viewport.

3. Interaction and Animation.

The Reshape Callback.

The Idle Callback.

A Rotating Square.

Double Buffering.

Using the Keyboard.

Using the Mouse Callback.

Mouse Motion.

Menus.

The NULL Callback.

Subwindows and Multiple Windows.

Example: single_double.c.

Display Lists.

Picking and Selection Mode.

4. Basic Three-Dimensional Programming.

Cameras and Objects.

Orthographic Projects in OpenGL.

Viewing a Cube.

Locating the Camera.

Building Objects.

Hidden-Surface Removal.

GLU and GLUT Objects.

Perspective Projects.

5. Transformations.

Line-Preserving Transformations.

Homogeneous Coordinates.

The Model-View and Projection Transformations.

Translation.

Rotation.

Scaling.

Setting Matrices Directly.

Transformations and Coordinate Systems

Modeling with Transformations.

6. Lights and Materials.

Light/Material Interactions.

The Phong Model.

OpenGL Lighting.

Specifying a Light Source.

Specifying a Material

Controlling the Lighting Calculation.

Smooth Shading.

Working with Normals.

Transparency.

7. Images.

Pixels and Bitmaps.

Drawing Modes.

Reading and Writing Pixels.

Selecting Buffers.

Pixel Store Modes.

Displaying a PPM Image.

Using Luminance.

Pixel Mapping.

Pixel Zoom.

Imaging Processing in OpenGL.

8. Texture Mapping.

Texels and Textures?

Constructing a Texture Map.

Texture Coordinates.

Texture Parameters.

A Rotating Cube with Texture.

Applying Textures to Surfaces.

Borders and Sizing.

Mipmaps.

Automatic Texture Coordinate Generation.

Texture Objects.

Texture Maps for Image Manipulation.

9. Curves and Surfaces.

Parametric Curves.

Parametric Surfaces.

Bézier Curves and Surfaces.

One-Dimensional OpenGL Evaluators.

Two-Dimensional Evaluators.

An Interactive Example.

Other Types of Cures.

The Utah Teapot.

Normals and Shading.

10. Putting It Together and Moving On.

A Demo Program.

Other OpenGL Features.

Buffers.

Writing Portable, Efficient, Robust Code.

Index.

OpenGL (Computer Science)
Computer Graphics--Intro (Computer Science)

OpenGL: A Primer, 3/E
Angel
©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 304 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321398114 | ISBN-13: 9780321398116
Net price: $18.02 (What's this?)Brief Description

OpenGL^®: A Primer is a concise presentation of fundamental OpenGL, providing readers with a succinct introduction to essential OpenGL commands as well as detailed listings of OpenGL functions and parameters. Angel uses a top-down philosophy to teach computer graphics based on the idea that students learn modern computer graphics best if they can start programming significant applications as soon as possible. The book makes it easy for students to find functions and their descriptions, and supplemental examples are included in every chapter to illustrate core concepts. This primer can be used both as a companion to a book introducing computer graphics principles and as a stand-alone guide and reference to OpenGL for programmers with a background in computer graphics.

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