Computer Graphics Lecture Notes

These lecture notes are drawn from material from a variety of sources including texts by Edward Angel; James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes; Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, Opengl Architecture Review board; Donald Hearn, M. Pauline Baker; and lecture notes by Albert Goodman, and at University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto's Dynamic Graphics Project.

• Lecture Topic 01 -- Introduction pdf
• Lecture Topic 02 -- Development of Computer Graphics : History pdf
• Lecture Topic 03 -- Development of Computer Graphics (ctd). pdfpdf one up
• Lecture Topic 04 -- Simple X graphics program; Introduction to Scan Conversion
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• Lecture Topic 04b -- Reference pages on a Simple X Graphics Program
• Lecture Topic 05 -- Efficient Scan Conversion for Lines
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• Lecture Topic 06 -- Polygon Filling
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• Lecture Topic 07 -- Clipping
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• Lecture Topic 08 -- Antialiasing
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• Lecture Topic 09 -- Introduction to OpenGL Introduction to OpenGL
• Lecture Topic 10 -- The OpenGL Rendering Pipeline Reference material
• Lecture Topic 11 -- Drawing Geometric Objects in OpenGL Reference Material
• Lecture Topic 12 -- Viewing in OpenGL Reference Material
• Lecture Topic 13 -- Color Representation
• Lecture Topic 14 -- Color in OpenGL Reference Material
• Lecture Topic 15 -- Local Illumination Models
• Lecture Topic 16 -- Lighting in OpenGL Reference Material
• Lecture Topic 17 -- Photorealistic Effects
• Lecture Topic 17a -- Rendering Line Drawings and Shaded Images

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• Lecture Topic 18 -- Blending, Antialiasing, and Fog in OpenGL Reference Material
• Lecture Topic 19 -- Display Lists in OpenGL Reference Material

Reference Material

• Color and Lighting
  Reference Material
• OpenGL Programming Guide