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Introduction to the site

All the words, or at least some of them

Some basic mathematics

Transformations in 2D, moving, rotating, scaling

Transformations in 3D

Homogeneous Coordinates

Some basic concepts like vector and matrix

Planes, descriptions and use

Curves and surfaces described by parameters

Linear, quadratic and cubic polynomials created from constraints

Bezier functions and surfaces

Non Uniform Rational B-Splines

OpenGL. What it is and how we can use it

Some basics on forms and surfaces

Basics on light and materials

Introducing a class for selection of a set of materials

A simple editor to work with materials

Shading and smoothness

The pipeline from model to screen

The pipeline from model to screen

a handmade simple 3D applet

Frames as a set of coordinate systems

Shadows as they are thrown from one object on another

Blending. Hourglass

Textures. Introduction and principles

Selection of an object in a scene by pointing at it

Marching cubes

Up and down by reflection or suspension

Javabinding for OpenGL

Drawing a simple 3D box as 6 surfaces

Planning and drawing a simple scene with boxes, light and eyepoint

Drawing a sun with planets and moons using the matix stack

Drawing an egg by combining Bezier surfaces

Drawing a walking "pin-horse"

Drawing a walking talking Android

Stan from South Park

Drawing a torus, with and without displaylists

Drawing a textured box

Drawing a Bezier surface, with and without texture

Drawing a Buckyball with and without texture

Drawing 4 tablelamps. Manipulating ligth, position and spots

Drawing a simple scene with an object that casts a shadow on a plane

Drawing a shape with Bezier-functions and frames

Indexed material

Illustrations in this material

PDF output of selected topics

Students

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