Homework 3

Short Description:

Write a utility library to display text in a given format.

This assignment is worth 50 points.

Goals

When you finish this homework, you should

Become familiar with transforming objects.

Formal Description

Create a library which will allow you to display text in openGL program. You may accomplish this any way you wish, a text object or a series of routines, but you need to be able to accomplish the following:

Display text left justified.
Display text right justified.
Display text right centered.
Given a string and a justification, return the lower left and upper right coordinates of a bounding box for this text.

Some discussion points:

Multiple lines will be marked with a '\n'.
All text should begin at 0,0 and be written along the positive x axis
Additional lines should be displayed along the negative y axis.
All text should have proportionality preserved, but be one unit high.
Your library should be in separate files (so it can be used in multiple projects). It should include a header and an implementation file.

Using your new library, write a program which will display the following

"Computer Graphs\nCSCI360" in the first quadrant, spinning along the center line of the text parallel to the y axis. as a unit. This text should be centered. Letters in this section should be one unit tall.
"Text In OpenGL" in the second quadrant, each word spinning independently at different rates. The first word should spin around a line parallel to they axis. The second should spin around a line parallel to the x axis and the third in a line parallel to the z axis. Letters in this phrase should be 2 units tall.
In the third quadrant you should simulate the opening credits from Star Wars, but using your own multi line message. This should be left justified (or better yest, fully justified).
In the fourth quadrant, display a two line phrase which is right justified and follows some form of circular path. The text should be 1/2 unit high. The path can be a circle, ellipse, lemniscate. ...

You should create a Makefile which will compile this program. This file should be called Makefile and contain the following lines:

Submission

You should email tar file as an attachment to a message to danbennett360@gmail.com. This tar file should contain all of the source code required to generate your project, a Makefile, and the README file.