CSCI 444/544 - Advanced Computer Graphics

Greetings Future Graphickers!

In the first week of class we'll be going over many of the details of class, structure, topics, etc. We also have a variety of backgrounds coming in to the class. Some of you are coming straight out of 441, some took 441 last Fall 2017, and some have not taken 441. As a starter to get up to speed for the beginning of the semester (or for a review), the following tutorials will prove very helpful in learning the prerequisite knowledge. All of these tutorials come from learnopengl.com which does a good job with write-ups, tutorials, images, and code samples.

Needed libraries:

• OpenGL
• glm
• GLFW
• glew
(Note that the tutorials use the glad library instead of glew – they are synonymous and only needed for setup once)

I recommend completing the following tutorials:

• Introduction
• ALL of Getting Started
• ALL of Lighting
• Advanced OpenGL – Depth Testing, Blending, Face Culling, Framebuffers

If you have questions along the way, feel free to contact me – or more preferably, put them up on Piazza. Here is the link to our course page - piazza.com/mines/spring2019/csci444 .

Happy Coding!
- Dr. Paone