Resources

Textbooks

There are two "required" text books for the course:

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics: 2nd Edition by Peter Shirley
A.K. Peters, 2005, ISBN: 1568812698

OpenGL Programming Guide version 2.1 by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board
Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0321335732, (6th edition)

Version 1.1 of the "Red Book" is also available online for free, for example at the official OpenGL website: www.opengl.org/documentation. This doesn't cover newer OpenGL features, but this course won't necessarily need the more advanced features, and depending on your platform they may not be available anyhow.

Note that while the textbooks are listed as required, and are highly recommended as fantastic books to own for both this course and future work you might do in graphics, it's not critical to buy both if you can't afford them. Lectures and the older online version of the Red Book should suffice if you are a diligent student.

Newsgroup

The course newsgroup is ubc.courses.cpsc.314. The CSSS has a web gateway if you haven't got your newsreader set up.

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