Webbased Visualization, Fall 2001
READING GUIDE

• Tue Sep 18. Lecture 1.
  • Read Chapter 1 at your leisure within the first 3 weeks. This will provide your general introduction to the field of Computer Graphics.
  • Chapter 2 is foundational. Please read Sections 1 to 5.
  • We suggest getting the source code from the publisher of Hill's book at Prentice-Hall. For your convenience, we have also downloaded it on the homework page.
• Tue Sep 26. Lecture 2.
  • Read Chapter 3 for basic techniques of OpenGL.
  • You don't have to read Chapter 4, except as needed.
  • We want to master the transformations used in the OpenGL pipeline, as this is the basis of techniques for animation, zooming and panning, tiling, etc.
  • Read Chapter 5 generally, but be sure to master 5.5 (based on parallel projection).
  • Read Chapter 7 generally for perspective projection. HINT: you need not follow the mathematical development of the formulas! All these will be done for you automatically.