Chen Goldberg

OpenGL Resources

About

I have had the chance to instruct numerous OpenGL courses over the past year, each focusing on different aspects. I have found the information available online extremely helpful and here I share some of my own resources in hope that they will be of assistance to others.

Exercises

Here are some of the exercises I use in lab sessions. You can download the complete source code from here. Download the partial exercises from here Provided are solutions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2008 express. The projects require glut,freeglut and glew headers, libs and dlls to compile link and run. For convenice the headers and libs are included, and the dlls are downloadable from here.

Name	Topics	C++	JOGL
ex1 - 2D scene	States, color, polygon mode	yes	yes
ex2 - RGB cube	Immediate mode drawing, face direction	yes	yes
ex3 - Fractal Tree	View and model transformations, GLU quadrics	yes	yes
ex4 - Lights	Lighting, Z-buffer	yes	yes
ex5 - Acceleration	Display lists, Vertex Arrays, VBO	yes	no
ex6 - Textures	2D Textures, Filtering, environment, FBO render to texture, Blending	yes	no
ex7 - Mirror	Stencil, user clipping	yes	no

Useful Links

Meshes

Princeton benchmark - Huge OFF database
Aim@shape - OFF, PLY database

Presentations

Alon Lerner's OpenGL lectures - Great fixed-function lectures
Lior Shapira's GLSL lecture - Great GLSL presentation