Developing Graphics Frameworks 09 Triangles Squares Hexagons

Summary

Learn how to create vertex array objects to manage the associations between vertex buffer data and attribute ("in") variables in a ... Create a Polygon Geometry class that can generate data to render a regular polygon with any number of sides and radius. Create another extension of the Geometry class to describe the shape of a three-dimensional box; vertex colors are assigned so ... Create the base Geometry class, which defines the overall shape of geometric objects and stores vertex-related properties (such ... Learn about the OpenGL functions used to send shader code to the GPU, compile shader programs, link shaders to create a ... Create shader programs containing uniform variables used to change the position and set the color of a geometric object. Based on student and viewer feedback, in order to increase cross-platform compatibility, a few changes are introduced in this ... Learn about how surfaces of three-dimensional objects can be represented by a parametric function: the x, y, z coordinates are ... Learn how to derive the parametric functions for a cylinder. See how using a small number of sample points along the ... Create the Rendered class, with performs general OpenGL initialization tasks, and contains a function named render, which takes ... Learn how to represent translation transformations with matrix multiplication by introducing homogeneous coordinates. Create axes and grids that help provide a sense of orientation and scale within a scene. Create the Object3D class, which corresponds to a node in the scene graph, stores a model matrix, and references to its parent ... Learn about scene graphs: a tree data structure that organizes the 3D objects in a scene. Then learn about the main classes that ...