15-462 Computer Graphics I
Resources

Links

• Textbook support by the author, Edward Angel
• www.opengl.org, the OpenGL home page
• OpenGL tutors for windows by Nate Robins

Supplementary Readings

Computer Graphics References

• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice.
  James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes.
  2nd edition in C, Addison-Wesley, 1996.
  ISBN 0201848406.
• An Introduction to Ray Tracing.
  Andrew S. Glassner, editor, Academic Press, 1989.
  ISBN 0-12-286160-4.
• Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques,, Theory and Practice.
  Alan Watt and Mark Watt, ACM Press and Addison-Wesley, 1992.
  ISBN 0-201-54412-1.

Programming and Libraries

• OpenGL Programming Guide.
  Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, Dave Shreiner.
  Third edition, OpenGL Version 1.2, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
  ISBN 0-201-60458-2.
• The C Programming Language.
  Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.
  Second edition, Prentice Hall, 1988.
  ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paperback).

Prerequisites and Background

• Introduction to Linear Algebra.
  Gilbert Strang.
  Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 1998.
  ISBN 0-9614088-5-5.
• Calculus: Early Transcendentals.
  James Stewart.
  Fourth edition, Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1999.
  ISBN 0-534-36298-2.

Prior Course Instances

Some of these have broken links. Only the Fall 2001 version used the same textbook (Angel: Interactive Computer Graphics). Some prior instances used Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes: Computer Graphics.

• Fall 2001, Jessica Hodgins.
• Spring 2001, Joel Welling.
• Fall 2000, Shelby Davis.
• Spring 2000, Paul Heckbert.
• Fall 1999, Joel Welling.
• Spring 1999, Steve Seitz.
• Fall 1998, Stuart Fairley.
• Spring 1998, Andy Witkin.
• Fall 1997, Paul Heckbert.
• Fall 1996, Andy Witkin.

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