Interactive computer graphics - a top-down approach with OpenGL

Interactive computer graphics - a top-down approach using OpenGL (4. ed.)

Redesign of an Introductory Computer Graphics Course

The redesign of our historically grown Computer Graphics course was primarily triggered by the need to incorporate modern, shader-based OpenGL. This technical modification led to discussions on the relevance of course topics, the order of presentation, the role of sample programs, and problem sets addressed in lab exercises. The redesign resulted in changing from a bottom-up to a top-down appro...

Using Computer Games Techniques for Improving Graph Visualization Efficiency

Creating an efficient, interactive and flexible unified graph visualization system is a difficult problem. We present a hardware accelerated OpenGL graph drawing engine, in conjunction with a flexible preview package. While the interactive OpenGL visualization focuses on performance, the preview focuses on aesthetics and simple network map creation. The system is implemented as Gephi, a modular...

Using 3D Graphics in Combination with other Models of Computation

This paper presents a framework for developing a new graphics domain, called GRO, in Ptolemy II [1]. GRO is an OpenGL-based implementation that imports utilities, semantic and functionalities of OpenGL. The specification provides users to fully utilize the potential in the communication between the rendering engine and the computation in the model. This bottom-up design approach allows develope...

Web-Based Interactive 3D Visualization for Computer Graphics Education

Instead of developing web-based course material using an off-the-shelf web authoring tool, we believe that a better way to show principles and techniques in computer science is to have the related algorithms running “live” in the background and to allow students to interact with them within a web browser. We have chosen computer graphics as an example course because of its demand for visualizat...