Computer graphics/2013-2014/Laboratory agenda

Laboratory 1

• AGENDA SUMMARY
• EVALUATION SUMMARY
• TOOLS, FRAMEWORKS, LIBRARIES
  • Eclipse
  • JOGL
• INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS
  • Computer Graphics
  • 2D / 3D Graphics
  • Digital Images
    • Definition
    • Resolution
    • Color Depth/Space
    • File Formats
  • Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• TECHNOLOGIES
  • OpenGL
  • DirectX
  • Java 2D / Java 3D
  • JOGL -- Java OpenGL (this is what will use)
  • XNA
  • X3D (VRML)

Laboratory 2

• (J)OGL BASICS
  • What is JOGL?
  • Comparison with OpenGL
  • OpenGL as a state machine
  • Naming conventions
  • Creating our first simple JOGL scene using AWT (or the well known Hello World program)
    • Installing JOGL libraries
    • Setting up an AWT application
    • Initializing JOGL
    • Callback functions (methods)
    • Drawing
      • Animation
  • JOGL Application Template
• 2D GRAPHICS BASICS (PART 1)
  • Coordinate Systems (JOGL vs. AWT)
  • Coordinate Spaces
  • Projections (orthogonal, perspective), View-port and View Volume
  • Vertices vs. Points. vs. Pixels
  • List of points (lines, line strip, line loop)
  • Changing the properties of points (size) and lines (width, stipple)
  • Coloring

Laboratory 3

• 2D GRAPHICS BASICS (PART 2)
  • Antialising
  • Polygons
    • Validity
    • What are they made of?
    • Dimensionality
    • Polygon Primitives
      • Triangles (normal, fan, list)
      • Quads (normal, strip)
      • Rectangles
    • Polygon filling and orientation
    • Polygon stipple
    • Polygon normals
  • Using Display Lists

Laboratory 4

• 2D GRAPHICS BASICS (PART 3):
  • Textures
  • 2D and 3D textures
    • Texture Files (.PNG, .TGA, .JPG, .BMP)
    • Reading a texture file and applying the texture on an object
    • MipMapping
    • Replacing parts of a texture with another
    • Texture transparency and blending

Laboratory 5

• 2D GRAPHICS BASICS (PART 6):
  • Placing text in the scene

• 2D APPLICATION
  • Simple StarChart

• PUBLISHING YOUR JOGL APPLICATION
  • Java Web Start
  • JNLP

Laboratory 6

• 3D GRAPHICS BASICS:
  • Perspective Projection, Depth and Shading, Looking at the scene from an arbitrary point
  • Drawing simple objects (sphere, torus)
    • Sphere mapping
  • Lighting and Materials
    • Lighting types (ambient, diffuse, specular, emitted)
    • Materials
    • Using materials combined with lighting

Laboratory 7

• USER CONTROL:
  • Keyboard and mouse control

• MORE ON MODELVIEW MANAGEMENT:
  • Model
    • Transformations
      • Rotation
      • Translation
      • Scaling
  • Viewing
    • Camera control

Laboratory 8

• MORE ON STATE VARIABLES AND BUFFERS:
  • State variables: querying their values
  • Buffers: Color buffer, Stencil buffer, Accumulation buffer, Depth buffer

• OBJECT PICKING

Laboratory 9

• USING COMPLEX OBJECTS:
  • File formats (.3DS, .OBJ)
  • Loading complex objects in the scene
• 3D GRAPHICS COMPLEX ISSUES (PART 1):
  • Billboards

Laboratory 10

• 3D GRAPHICS COMPLEX ISSUES (PART 2):
  • World box
  • Handling object collisions

Laboratory 11

• 3D GRAPHICS COMPLEX ISSUES (PART 3):
  • Creating a simple particle engine

Laboratory 12

• 3D APPLICATION:
  • Simple Space Simulator

Laboratory 13

• 3D APPLICATION
  • Simple scene

Laboratory 14

• DirectX API overview
  • Drawing a basic scene using Managed DirectX and C#

You can find romanian slides at - Grafica si Interfete - 2014-2015 - info.uvt.ro

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• Gabriel Iuhasz, iuhasz.gabriel@info.uvt.ro