Comp 360: Introduction to Computer Graphics

Fall 2006

Lectures: MW 12:40pm - 2:20pm, KH 101

Announcements

Course Resources

The course newsgroup is rice.owlnews.comp360.
If you don't already have one, you can sign up for an Owlnet PC password.

Staff

Instructor:
Dr. Ron Goldman (rng@cs.rice.edu)
Office: DH 3116
Office Hours: M, W 2:30-3:30pm

Labby:
Travis McPhail (tjice@rice.edu)
Office: DH 3114
Office Hours: T, Th 4:00-5:00pm (subject to change)

References

General

• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice -- Foley, Van Dam, Feiner, Hughes
• Computer Graphics -- Hearn and Baker

Fractals

• Turtle Geometry -- Abelson and DiSessa
• Fractals Everywhere -- Barnsley

Freeform Curves and Surface -- Bezier and Lagrange

• Curves and Surfaces for Computer Aided Geometric Design: A Practical Guide -- Farin
• Pyramid Algorithms: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Curves and Surfaces for Geometric Modeling -- R. Goldman

All texts listed above are on reserve at Fondren Library.

Online References

• OpenGL References:
• • OpenGL Programming Guide (The Red Book)
  • OpenGL Reference Manual (The Blue Book)
  • NeHe OpenGL Tutorials
  • OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) API Reference
• C++ for Java Programmers

This page is maintained by Travis McPhail.