Links and resources

General Links

• applets at Princeton University
• an online computer graphics book

OpenGL

• http://www.opengl.org/ – lots of information about OpenGL
• OpenGL Programming Guide (Red book) (version 1.1 is available online, the current 8^th edition that can be purchased is updated to OpenGL version 4.3)
• OpenGL 2.1 Reference Pages
• For documentation on OpenGL 4 (the latest version of this moment) see http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/
• OpenGL extensions list (mostly nVidia) or this alternative OpenGL extensions list
• online papers from many computer graphics conferences
• OpenGL tutors that allow you to interactively explore OpenGL concepts (for example, transformations, lights, and viewing).

GPU Topics

• GPU Gems 1
• GPU Gems 2

Texture Mapping

• NASA's solar system simulator with maps for planets and moons
• JHT's planet texture maps for planets and their moons including bump maps, displacement maps, and more
• Steve Albers' planetary maps
• more planetary maps

Color

• VisCheck to simulate color blindness
• Ishihara Test 1

* Ishihara Test 2

• Ishihara Test 2 (Wikipedia)

Global Illumination: Raytracing and Radiosity

• POV-Ray
• POV-Ray Hall of Fame (example images)
• The Workings of a Radiosity Renderer

Curves and Smooth Surfaces

• Java Applet for the DeCasteljau algorithm
• A tool to experiment with splines
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project: DeCasteljau algorithm
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project: Simple spline curves
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project: B-spline curve with knots
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project: B-spline basis functions
• Interpolating Cardinal and Catmull-Rom splines including Java applet
• Program to play with Bézier surfaces

Computer Graphics at Other Schools

• CS123 Brown University