Class Notes

• What will we be Learning?
• Some of my expectations
• An introduction to web programming
• Accessing the System
  • HTML
    • Intro to HTML
    • HTML Tags
  • JavaScript
    • Intro to Javascript
    • Basic Javascript: Making a button work
    • Adding Callbacks, some more information
    • Basic Javascript: User Input
    • Basic Javascript: Some Control Structures
    • Html: The Canvas Element
    • Some Data Structures
    • Code for this section
• 2d Graphics
  • Moving towards 2d, the HTML 2d canvas
    • Primitives and their attributes of the HTML 5 canvas 2d context
    • Timers
    • Canvas Class
    • Some More Events
    • More Zap Orderer Notes
    • Zap Orderer
    • Code for this section.
  • Back To Graphics
    • Pixels and Vector vs Raster
    • Lines
      • Drawing a line in a frame buffer
      • Bresenham's Line Algorithm
      • Line Code
  • Some Math
    • LERP
    • Lerp demo
    • Circle Stuff
    • Changing Viewing Coordinates
    • Transformations in the plane
    • Fixing the canvas
    • Rotations and Saving the state
    • Final Thoughs
    • Code for this section
• 3d Graphics
  • The Pinhole Camera
• Intro to WebGL/OpenGL
  • Introduction
  • A simple program
  • Code for this section
  • A non-exercise exercise, sorry I am out of time.
  • An in depth look at the non-exercise
  • More Scenarios for Data in WebGL
  • A Final Session on *GL only, back to graphics soon.
• Some Data Files
  • Intro to Off files
  • Some Models
  • There might be different models here
• Wireframe Triangls in WebGL
  • Triangles
  • A Triangle Demo
  • The mv.js file.
  • More GL?
  • Barycentric Coordinates (redundant)
  • Code for this section.
• Viewing
  • The camera and the view frustum.
  • Moving About in Space.
• The Lighting Model
  • Introduction
  • Details

1. Introduction
2. Graphics Hardware
3. Mathematics for Computer Graphics
4. 2D Primitives
5. Output Attributes
6. 2D Transformations
7. 2D Viewing Pipeline
8. 3D Viewing
9. 3D Representation
10. Light and Color
11. Visible Surface Methods
12. Other Topics