Resources

This page provides some helpful resources for you. Check back during the semester as we continue to add tools.

Additional Supplemental Material

• Physically Based Deformable Models in Computer Graphics by Andrew Nealen, Mathias Muller, Richard Keiser, Eddy Boxerman and Mark Carlson  (Nice survey paper of the field)
• Physically Based Modeling (The 2001 course notes by Baraff and Witkin)
• Fluid simulation (SIGGRAPH 07 course notes on by Bridson et. al.)
• Computer Animation Information Page (Rick Parent's page with large number of links)
• Hecker Articles(Rigid body dynamics)

Useful Books (not required)

• Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (H. M. Schey)
• Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics (Robert Bridson, A K Peters, 2008)
• Physics Based Animation (Book by Erleben, Sporring,Henriksen, Dohlmann)
• Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3-D Technology)
• Mathematics for Computer Graphics, 3rd Edition, by John Vince, Springer-Verlag, February 2010

OpenGL Developer Tools

• Drivers [NVIDIA | ATI]
• freeglut - window management, input, etc.
• GLEW - OpenGL extensions
• GLM - vectors, matrices, etc. [Documentation]
• NShader - GLSL syntax highlighting in Visual Studio
• gDEBugger - OpenGL/OpenCL debugger, profiler, and memory analyzer
• GLIntercept - log OpenGL calls, shaders, and textures
• OpenGL Report - web-based video card OpenGL capabilities. Also see [GPU Caps Viewer | GLview]
• OpenTK - use OpenGL from C#/.NET.

OpenGL Resources

• OpenGL/GLSL API Quick Reference Guide [3.2 | 4.0]
• OpenGL Reference Pages [2.1 | 3.3 | 4.1]
• OpenGL Forums
• OpenGL Samples Pack
• Orange Book Shader Examples
• OpenGL Red Book - old version on GL 1.1 is free online.
• OpenGL Tutorials
• An intro to modern OpenGL
• OpenGL Step By Step
• Introduction to OpenGL 3.2
• GLSL Tutorials [Lighthouse | Swiftless]
• Song Ho Ahn's OpenGL Tutorials - VBO, PBO, FBO, etc. tutorials

General Graphics Developer Tools

• Author shaders [ATI RenderMonkey | NVIDIA FX Composer]
• FRAPS - measure framerate, capture video, etc.
• NVIDIA NVPerfKit, which includes GLExpert
• ATI [GPU PerfStudio | GPU Shader Analyzer]
• GPUBench
• The Image Debugger