Resources

Documentation of C++ classes in support code

Use these applets to explore different concepts related to the course.

A document containing a description of the scenefile definition.

Review the linear algebra concepts needed for the course with theses slides.

A short tutorial on using GDB.

A short introduction to Open GL.

Slides that briefly introduce C.

Slides that briefly introduce C++.

This tutorial will help you transition from Java to C++.

Site for learning about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).

WPF Lab slides.

(Windows-only). Lightweight XAML editor

Official C++ Standard Template Library Documentation

Concise three-part STL tutorial, courtesy of the University of British Columbia's CS490.

Concise three-part STL tutorial, courtesy of the University of British Columbia's CS490.

Concise three-part STL tutorial, courtesy of the University of British Columbia's CS490.

Extremely well-written, advanced C++ libraries

The all-inclusive, definitive OpenGL programming guide. Contains everything you could want to know about OpenGL, though is huge and can be hard to wade through

Reference for using OpenGL without going into as much depth as The Red Book

Over 45 of the best OpenGL tutorials around, including beginner, intermediate, and advanced content

Mac-specific OpenGL documentation and techniques; a lot of the information is also generally applicable to OpenGL on other platforms

OpenGL Utility Toolkit for windowing

Provides some OpenGL learning applications that depict OpenGL concepts in an intuitive and graphical manner.

OpenGL quick reference guide (a little bit out of date, but a great quick-reference for beginners) by Dave Mount (University of Maryland)

Concise two page reference for GLSL

Great GLSL tutorial

Collection of GLSL tutorials

Contains lots of great tools, papers, and demos focusing mainly on shaders (GLSL, cg, and HLSL. Many of the papers and demos are advanced.

Links to all OpenGL entrypoints for dealing with GLSL

Example GLSL shaders from The Orange Book

Over 45 of the best OpenGL tutorials around, including beginner, intermediate, and advanced content

Great GLSL tutorial

Collection of GLSL tutorials

Collection of well-written shader tutorials, focusing on how to write Renderman (SL) shaders

Contains lots of great tools, papers, and demos focusing mainly on shaders (GLSL, cg, and HLSL. Many of the papers and demos are advanced.

The best place to learn the Cg shading language. Topics covered are also very much applicable to GLSL and HLSL

Siggraph is the premier venue for advanced Computer Graphics research. Tim Rowley has aggregated a large archive of papers and resources from the Siggraph and Eurographics conferences dating back for almost a decade.

Papers written by Pixar peeps

Nvidia's advanced book on high-performance graphics techniques

Nvidia's advanced book on high-performance graphics techniques

General Purpose GPU Usage Homepage

Easy-to-follow description of parallax occlusion mapping, a recent technique for simulating accurate shading of highly detailed geometry with low memory/computation overhead.

Advanced low level programming optimization guides. Extremely well written and up-to-date.

(Windows-only). Program from Microsoft Research which stitches pictures together to create an immersive 3D experience

Lots of articles on game development

Wide variety of articles related to game development

Very nice list of links in many different areas, though some are a bit outdated