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1. Introduction

Since its first release in 1992, OpenGL has been rapidly adopted as the graphics API of choice for real-time interactive 3D graphics applications. The OpenGL state machine is easy to understand, but its simplicity and orthogonality enable a multitude of interesting effects. The goal of this course is to demonstrate how to generate more satisfying images using OpenGL. There are three general areas of discussion: generating aesthetically pleasing or realistic looking basic images, computing interesting effects, and generating more sophisticated images.



 

David Blythe
1999-08-06