CSCI 441 - Computer Graphics

Byrne Valorgorn

Assignment 1 - Valaquenta involved creating a banner that included our character's name and a crest representing their home, made using various OpenGL primitives and multiple colors. For my banner, I used triangle strips for the letters and the background of my crest, and I used triangle fans for the circles in the crest.

Behind the scenes, I wrote a function to generate a vector of vertices needed to create a circular triangle fan, given a center point and radius. I also created another function to generate a vector of vertices for a color gradient, given starting and ending colors.

Assignment 2 - A Journey in the Dark had us draw our Hero and give them movement, idle animation, additional functionality with the mouse, and the ability to traverse the world map.

For Byrne, I made his head 'bob' up and down for his idle animation, made his eyes turn gold upon clicking the left mouse button, made his eyes follow the mouse cursor, and change his armor/body from black to purple when left clicking and pressing the Q key at the same time.