CSE 581 - Interactive Computer Graphics

Syllabus

Instructor: Roger Crawfis
Office: 683 Dreese Labs
Telephone: 292-2566
e-mail: crawfis [at] cse [dot] ohio-state [dot] edu
Course URL: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~crawfis/cse581/index.html

Course Summary

Introduction to interactive graphics programming, Graphics APIs, display hardware, graphics processing pipeline (geometry processing, rasterization, texture mapping, etc.), geometric modeling, image formats, color theories.

Objectives

Particularly:

• Understand the basic concepts of interactive computer graphics
• Be able to write interactive 2D drawing programs
• Be able to write interactive 3D graphics rendering programs
• Be fluent in programming OpenGL

Texts

(Optional) Ed Angel, Interactive Computer Graphics - A Top-Down Approach using OpenGL, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2003.

(Recommended) OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 2, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006 (aka, the Red Book).

• An old version for OpenGL 1.1 is on-line, but is pretty much worthless, as too much has changed over the decades.

(On-line) OpenGL SDK, Reference Manual pages

Supplemental Material

My video lectures for "Programming in C#" are available on-line.

The following books are on-line and available to OSU students through Safari (partial list):

• C# in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, by Ben Albahari, Peter Drayton, Ted Neward
• Windows Forms 2.0 Programming, by Chris Sells, Michael Weinhardt (recommended)
• Microsoft® Visual C++® .NET 2003 Kick Start, by Kate Gregory
• Programming .NET Components, 2nd Edition, by Juval Lowy
• C# for Java Developers, by Allen Jones, Adam Freeman
• Learning C# 2005, by Jesse Liberty, Brian MacDonald
• C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition, by Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet
• Essential C# 2.0, by Mark Michaelis
• Microsoft®C# Programming for the absolute beginner, by Andy Harris
• Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, by Bill Wagner
• OpenGL® SuperBible, Fourth Edition, by Richard S. Wright Jr., Benjamin Lipchak and Nicholas Haemel
• OpenGL® Distilled, by Paul Martz
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Unleashed, by Lars Powers, Mike Snell