Lecture Notes and Slides

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Lecture Slides on 2D and 3D Graphics

Overview

OpenGL

Color Models

Lighting and Shading

Visible Surface Determination

Shadow Algorithms

Texture Mapping

3D Tranformation

2D graphics

Ray Tracing

Radiosity

Particle System Animation

ODE Basics

More In-depth ODE Slides

Java 3D

OpenGL Programming Guide (aka the Red Book)

OpenGL Reference Manual (aka the Blue Book)

Glut specification

Sample OpenGL programs
 

 
 
 

Tutorial Notes on Java

Get JDK

JDK API Specification

To Learn More About Java (without spending $$$)

Tutorial Notes on Java3D

Java 3D Tutorial

Java 3D Tutorial (by Sowizal and Nadeau)

Java 3D Class API

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