CS 4610 Computer Graphics I

Projects

Projects should stress interactivity, 3D graphics, animation, modelling, new rendering methods, realism, new interfaces, and improving your knowledge of OpenGL. The following links to various research groups and their current activities that may give you inspiration in selecting an area for your own project:

• NeHe - A great site with many, many well documented and discussed OpenGL tutorials.
• Gamasutra - An industry site with both technical and business topics related to games
• Lighting & Rendering and Glossary - Tutorials on lighting, multi-pass rendering and other topics from book along with a selective glossary of CG terminology. Purchaseable artist generated 3D models and sample (free) models are available.
• Game Programming Gems - A good collection of graphics, modelling, AI, issues and solutions for building interactive games. The book includes source code.
• Collision Detection - Most interactive environments require some type of fast collision detection ranging from bounding boxes, spheres, ellipsoids, etc.
• 3D File Format Information - A starting point to find software libraries to read 3D model files which you can render within your program. .
• Open Inventor C++ - Object oriented 3D toolkit on top of OpenGL supporting 3D scene databases consisting of cubes, polygonal models, text, materials, cameras, ligths, trackballs, handle boxes, viewers, editors, etc. for interactive graphics programming. Originally developed by SGI.
• Ray Tracing Software - free ray tracing packages like Povray, Rayshade, Radiance, BMRT, polyray, etc
• Computer Vision Research - list of research groups, hardware, software, test images
• Graphics Gems Repository - source code from five books in the series covering widely used graphics algorithms, including a table of contents that you can browse through
• Journal of Graphics Tools
• Graphics Software Archive - image manipulation, 2D rendering, computational geometry, modelling and rendering, 3D file formats and viewers, hidden-surfaces, ray tracing, radiosity, visualization, volume rendering   
• 3D LCD Display (from EE Times)
• Game Developer Magazine