RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS (BUT NOT REQUIRED)
Computer Graphics with OpenGL, Fourth Edition
by
Donald Hearn,
M. Pauline Baker,
Warren R. Carithers
Published by Pearson, 2011
OpenGL® Programming Guide, Ninth Edition
(the "Red Book")
by
John Kessenich,
Graham Sellers,
Dave Shreiner
Published by Addison-Wesley Professional, 2016
OpenGL® Reference Manual: The Official Reference Document to OpenGL, Version 1.4 (Fourth Edition)
(the "Blue Book")
by
Dave Shreiner
Published by Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004
OpenGL® SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference (Seventh Edition)
by
Graham Sellers,
Richard Wright Jr.,
Nicholas Haemel
Published by Addison-Wesley Professional, 2015
OPENGL RESOURCES
OpenGL and all of its supporting documents could be accessed from: www.opengl.org
For OpenGL API documents, please refer to OpenGL® and OpenGL® ES Reference Pages
If you are new to OpenGL, you may start with this Online OpenGL Tutorial
Many other online resources are also available!
OTHER USEFUL AND RELEVANT JOURNALS
- Computer Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH)
- IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computer Aided Geometric Design
- Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Journal)
- The Visual Computer
- Graphical Models
- And others!
TA HELP PAGE
OpenGL resources and submission instructions: TA Help Page
Our TA will host 1-2 OpenGL tutorial recitations during this semester.
OLD TA HELP PAGES (FROM PRIOR SEMESTERS!)
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ONLY, I am making the following links available. These materials are ONLY for your reference and convenience (they are from prior years!):
- OpenGL resources and homework submission instructions (Fall 2019)
- HELP INFO on OpenGL (Spring 2011)