CES Course Materials Repository

Course Notes

The lecture notes are available in two forms, one with one overhead per page and the other with four; you will find the latter better-suited to printing if you do that yourself. (Note that paper copies of the notes will be handed out.) Each section of the notes has an associated quiz ("formative test") which you can download and do on your own computer to check out your knowledge and understanding.

1. Introduction	1-up	4-up
2. Essential Mathematics	1-up	4-up	quiz
3. Essential POV-ray	1-up	4-up	quiz
4. Further POV-ray	1-up	4-up	quiz
5. Essential Geometry	1-up	4-up	quiz
6. Further Geometry	1-up	4-up	quiz
7. Essential Rendering	1-up	4-up	quiz
8. Further Rendering	1-up	4-up	quiz
9. Essential OpenGL	1-up	4-up	quiz
10. Further OpenGL	1-up	4-up	quiz

Laboratory Scripts

Assignment

The assignment is now available, and you should be working on it during your Laboratory sessions. Note that online submission is required no later than 11:59:59 (i.e., before midday) on Friday 14^th November. You can submit work as often as you like to the submissions server, and you are advised to do this frequently. Uploading can take some time when the server is busy, so please don't leave uploading your final version of the submission to the last possible minute!

OpenGL Example Programs

Makefile (remember to rename to Makefile after downloading)
opengl-01.c first example of an OpenGL program
opengl-02.c keyboard handling and initial window configuration
opengl-03.c drawing a single rectangle
opengl-04.c drawing a sphere or teapot
opengl-05.c an articulated arm controlled by the keyboard
opengl-06.c an animated, articulated arm
opengl-07.c displaying image data and text
opengl-08.c an articulated arm controlled by the mouse
opengl-09.c rendering a sphere with lighting
opengl-10.c specifying normal vectors at vertices (c.f. opengl-03.c)
opengl-11.c moving a light source with modelling transformations
opengl-12.c texture mapping
opengl-13.c a spinning, coloured cube with a texture mapped onto it

POV-ray Examples

The POV-ray files listed below all end in .txt to make them compatible with the web-server. Remember to rename each .txt file to .pov before using it.

pov-01.txt an orange ball above a white/green checkerboard
pov-02.txt various simple objects above a white/green checkerboard
pov-03.txt a blue triangle above a white/green checkerboard
pov-04.txt an example of a polymesh
pov-05.txt a surface of revolution above a white/green checkerboard
pov-06.txt an extruded shape above a white/green checkerboard
pov-07.txt orange text above a white/green checkerboard
pov-08.txt showing a hand-calculated normal vector
pov-09.txt orange balls with and without highlights
pov-10.txt as pov-01 but with a cone light
pov-11.txt as pov-01 but with an area light (light source moved to show shadow and "zoomed in")
pov-12.txt as pov-11 but with jitter
pov-13.txt a colour-mapped ball above a white/green checkerboard
pov-14.txt a marble ball above a white/green checkerboard with sky
pov-15.txt a glass ball above a white/green checkerboard with sky
pov-16.txt a set of textured balls above a white/green checkerboard
pov-17.txt a bump-mapped plane above a white/green checkerboard
pov-18.txt a texture-mapped plane above a white/green checkerboard
pov-19.txt an orange ball above a white/green checkerboard with fog
pov-20.txt an orange ball above a white/green checkerboard with more fog
pov-21.txt various objects above a white plane rendered with radiosity