Computer Graphics, Fall'99 Programming Links

Programming links

You will need OpenGL and GLUT libraries to do some of the assignments. OpenGL libraries are typically included with recent versions of Windows.
To check if you already have them, look for opengl32.dll in /windows/system32 or /winnt/system32. If you do not have them you can retrieve them from Microsoft's ftp site. Most likely you will have to install the GLUT library yourself, as described on GLUT for Windows home page

Programming Style

In your code you are strongly encouraged to follow this guide.

OpenGL and GLUT Information

Documentation

OpenGL main site
SGI OpenGL Page
OpenGL man pages
GLUT (Graphics Library Toolkit)
GLX (GL and X) Documentation
Micro User Interface (MUI)
Pico User Interface (PUI)
Mesa (free OpenGL implementation) Home Page
How to make GLUT pre-compiled libraries work with Borland C++
Free C compiler for Windows. No C++ support, not exactly bug-free; speaks with a slight Spanish accent. Use at your own risk. The version of GLUT libraries that appears to be working with LCC can be found here. More information related to LCC.
Cygwin Project, UNIX tools (gcc in particular) for Windows. Although it is called a beta release, it is quite reliable. You need to download the full binary release (full.exe, 13.6 MB). If you are familiar with UNIX and gcc, this is recommended. I did not try it with GLUT yet, I'll try it and post an explanation here.

Downloads

OpenGL for Windows 95 (included in the OSR2 release)
GLUT (if you are using a Windows machine, use pre-compiled libraries version 3.6, NOT 3.7)!

A note about Running OpenGL programs on UNIX machines without GLX (Stanford)

Using Mesa to run OpenGL programs remotely

The sample GLUT program (C) written in the class

sample.c; Visual C++ 6.0 project file

Another sample GLUT program (C++)

sample