MAE 152 : Computer Graphics for Engineers and Scientists

FALL 2003 Quarter

page last updated Mon., 2/14/05, 1:00pm

Announcements

• Check out your final projects here at the final project page: Final project page here

• Final Project turnin procedures:

  • First create a basic webpage (one document) which has a description of your project, and a link to your file, which should be in the same folder, and saved as a zip file
  • Name your file similar to your homeworks, with no spaces in the name (this is important to make the link work on the web). Example : "myname_finalproject.zip"
  • Name your html document (web page) index.html this is important!
  • Here is a web page sample, it has some text, an image, and a link to a file. You can use this and change the links and images if you wish, or create your own. Just remember your total quota is 10MB, no more!
  • Place the files in the web folder of your directory by ftp. Connect with any of a number of free ftp programs, such as WS_FTP LE which you can find free online. Use your user name and password given at the final. If any one lost their logins, email Alex Simpkins, and he'll send it to you again. You'll be able to connect for the next month or so to make changes and additions.

• Old Announcements can be found here

• For those who want to work on your own PC (Windows or Linux), click here.

Contents

• Projects

• What we will be doing this quarter

• Prerequisites

• Instructor

• Teaching Assistants

• Labs

• Handouts

• Textbook

• Grading

Textbook

Purchase this book. There may be readings and material drawn from this.

online version to browse:

http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/

or ...

download the zip file of the entire book here (~4MB)

or ...

download the pdf file here (7MB! It is suggested you use a high speed connection at home or download at school and use the CD Burning drives to put it onto a CD.)

Woo, Neider, Davis, and Shreiner, OpenGL Programming Guide, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
This is available from the UCSD bookstore. Other course material will consist of web pages, handouts, and notes taken in class.
Also, the following book is very good:

Ed Angel, OpenGL: A Primer, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
It doesn't explain much, but it is good at reminding you how to do certain things in OpenGL. Its examples use GLUT.

and (not pictured)

Daniel B. Olfe, Computer Graphics for Design: From Algorithms to AutoCAD, Prentice-Hall, 1995.

This book is out of print but you may find it online for purchase. We may be able to make selected chapters available for download.

Download the color theory chapter here (ch3)

Other References

* Chandrajit Bajaj, Data Visualization Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
* F. S. Hill, Computer Graphics Using OpenGL, Prentice Hall, 2001.
* OpenGL Reference Manual, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
* Edward Angel, Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-down Approach Using OpenGL, Addison-Wesley, 1999. (Second Edition)
* Alan Watt, 3D Computer Graphics, Addison-Wesley, 2000. (Third Edition)
* Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, and Bill Lorensen, The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998.
* Michael Mortenson, Geometric Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
* Gerald Farin, Curves and Surfaces for Computer Aided Geometric Design, Academic Press, 1990.
* David Thompson, Jeff Braun, and Ray Ford, OpenDX: Paths to Visualization, VIS, Inc., 2001.

Prerequisites:

MAE 152. Computer Graphics for Engineers and Scientists (4)

• Computer graphics algorithms studied using the C programming language and also by use of the computer-aided design software package AutoCAD. Applications in engineering and science. Topics include line-drawing algorithms, color, the user interface in CAD, spline curves and surfaces, 2-D and 3-D transformations, 3-D viewing, wireframe and solid models, and hidden-surface elimination. Weekly computer laboratory assignments plus a final graphics design project. Prerequisites: admission to the major and grade of C or better in AMES 15; college-level programming course in C, FORTRAN, or Pascal. (F,S)
• Functioning brain.

Grading:

see the grading page

(Note, the grading page had to be removed due to privacy restrictions. We will look into a way of displaying them to you)

Grading will follow the fill-the-bucket principle. For each homework assignment and for the Midterm and Finals test you will get score points. These will be added. The grade will be based on your score and the maximum achievable score.

~5 projects

1 final project

1 final exam

total possible will be around 1000 pts, plus bonus

Instructor

Dr. Prashant V.Mahajan, Senior Research Scientist, AValonRF, Inc., El Cajon, CA,

drmahajanp at hotmail dot com

Office Hours

3.45 p.m.-4.45 p.m. Mon and Wed in 383 EBUII

Lecture Schedule

• OpenGL system and sample code
• simple geometric modeling and GL/GLUT primitives
  
• transformations
  
• managing transformation stacks and composing transformations
  
• animation, double buffering of images
  
• color models and representation
  
• lights and shading models
  
• display lists
  
• event models and event-driven programming
  
• standard OpenGL callbacks
  
• Matrix operations
  
• Representations, linear functions and interpolations, polynomials, splines,
  
• bezier functions
  
• ProENGINEER solid modeling
  
• DXF (between ProE and external programs)

Teaching Assistants

Alex Simpkins, PhD student, MAE department, System Identification and Controls Lab, csimpkin at ucsd dot edu

Lab Hours

All lab hours will take place in EBU II room 203 (the computer lab closest to the construction). Here the TA's will be available to assist with homework assigments and questions.

The following are the lab hours:

Projects

Grading page for your review

Turn-in procedures are explained here

UltimateZip instructions

• Many of these are formatted as microsoft powerpoint files (*.ppt). If you don't have powerpoint, microsoft has a free viewer on their website. These files will be converted to PDF as soon as possible.

• example programs- these are zipped files, the computers in the labs have an unzipping program

FAQs

In many on-line newsgroups or web topics, there is an entity known as a Frequently Asked Questions list, or a FAQ (rhymes with "yak"). Here we have several FAQs, arranged by topic. Click below to see individual FAQs:

Other Useful Online Graphics and Visualization Information

• OpenGL:
  • Industry-wide OpenGL Information: http://www.opengl.org
  • OpenGL Man Pages: http://www.sun.com/software/graphics/OpenGL/manpages
  • Java bindings for OpenGL: http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~robin/JavaGL
  • The Mesa 3-D Graphics Library (all software implementation in an X Window): http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html

• The GLUT Library:
  • GLUT Documentation: http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/glut/spec3/spec3.html
  • GLUT Information: http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/glut/index.html?GLUT
  • GLUT FAQ: http://www.opengl.org/developers/faqs/technical/glut.htm

• The GLUI Library:
  • OpenGL User Interface (GLUI) http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui
  • OpenGL User Interface (GLUI) Documentation http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui/glui_manual_v2_beta.pdf

• Open DX:
  • Open Data Explorer (DX): http://www.opendx.org

• Visualization Toolkit (vtk)
  • vtk Home Page: http://public.kitware.com/VTK
  • vtk Documentation: http://public.kitware.com/VTK/doc/nightly/html
  • vtk Example Code: http://public.kitware.com/VTK/example-code.php

• The Web:
  • Web design tools: http://www.prana3.com/tools/

• 3D on the Web:
  • Web3D Consortium: http://www.web3d.org
  • Web3D Repository http://www.web3d.org/vrml/vrml.htm
  • Sun's Java 3D Information: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/index.html
  • Cosmo Player Home Page: http://cosmosoftware.com
  • Cosmo Player Software Download: http://cosmosoftware.com/download/player.html

• Game Information:

  • Game Developer: http://www.gamedev.net
  • Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com
  • Select Parks Game Development Information: http://www.selectparks.net

• 3D Geometry File Formats: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/3d-hi.html

• The UCSD/SDSC Center for Visualization Prototypes Project (be sure to check out the web cams!): http://dvl.sdsc.edu/webcam

• SIGGRAPH (The Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics): http://www.siggraph.org

• SIGGRAPH Online Computer Graphics Bibliography Database: http://www.siggraph.org/publications/bibliography

• Nice pointers to many other computer graphics sites: http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/cg.html

• 3D Models you can download:
  • Avalon site (free): http://avalon.viewpoint.com
  • Ohio State (free): http://sampl.eng.ohio-state.edu/%7Esampl/data/3DDB/Models/index.htm
  • Viewpoint (costs money): http://avalon.viewpoint.com

• Devices of Wonder (this has nothing to do with graphics, but it is too cool not to list...): http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devices/
• Graphics software:
  • Useful software for converting between many file formats: http://www.graphic-converter.net

• A very good publishing company:

  • www.radiantdolphinpress.com
  • They have books on eastern philosophy, psychology, meditation, and self-hypnosis. These books can be helpful in a sense of discipline, concentration, and finding bugs in code.