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CS488/688: Introduction to Computer Graphics

Contests

2009 Cover Competition for the Computer Graphics Forum, journal of Eurographics.

The Internet resources listed below can be very useful. However, the following rules apply:

Code obtained from elsewhere and used as part of a project must be documented in the README. Failure to do so will be treated the same as cheating. Course credit cannot be obtained for someone else's work (obviously!).
Ideas obtained from elsewhere, either from a printed paper or from online material, must be referenced in your project report.
You may develop at home, but projects and assignments must be tested on the machines in the undergraduate graphics lab. Failure of a program to compile or execute properly in that environment will result in loss of marks.
If you discover a link that you think would be helpful to current or future graphics students, feel free to send it to us and we'll consider adding it to this page.

SIGGRAPH is the ACM's Special Interest Group in Graphics, and hosts the major conference in the field. This web site has a large searchable bibliography of graphics papers (not just from SIGGRAPH).
ACM has other journals on graphics, like the ACM Transactions on Graphics. NOTE: you can access the ACM Digital Library for free if you are a student at UW through the Davis Library. Most recent SIGGRAPH and ACM ToG papers are available online.
Graphics Interface is another good graphics conference whose proceedings are in the library. Many recent papers can be downloaded from the above web site.
Yahoo Graphics Directory Page has a searchable index.
Kurhila maintains a list of links to other computer graphics educational resources on the web.
Michiel van de Panne maintains a list of companies and graduate graphics labs in Canada.
The exploratories at Brown University. Lots of interactive demos of graphics principles.
Theories of Colour Vision at the University of Calgary's department of psychology.

OpenGL Consortium Resource Centre. These pages also include OpenGL-related course materials, documentation, various bits-o-software, downloadable demos, news, and information on advanced OpenGL applications (i.e. good project ideas).
GLUT, the OpenGL Utility Toolkit, is installed in the undergraduate lab. It is a simple user interface toolkit which you may want to use for your projects, although it is very limited. Note that many examples in the OpenGL Programming Guide use GLUT, since it is platform-independent.
OpenGL Programming Guide (aka the Red Book).
OpenGL Reference (aka the Blue Book).

Company webpages such as NVIDIA's and ATI's usually provide drivers and information about programming their graphics cards.

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Revision 1.23 by smann on 2008/08/25 20:32:30 (UTC).