Introduction to Computer Graphics for Engineering - Short Course - 16th -18th June 2014

Download

• General:

  • Instruction for installing Visual Studio 2008 and Qt plugin do Qt.

  • Dynamic libraries (DLL) for executing stand-alone Qt programs (version 4.8.5):
    Debug version: QtCored4.dll, QtGuid4.dll e QtOpenGLd4.dll.
    Release version: QtCore4.dll, QtGui4.dll e QtOpenGL4.dll.

• Lectures:

  • Day 01 - Lecture A - About de Course

  • Day 01 - Lecture B - A Brief Introduction to Computer Graphics

  • Day 01 - Lecture C - Hello World: simple program created with Qt and VS 2008
    Download of program.

  • Day 01 - Lecture D - Simple program to make the sum of two numbers
    Download of program.

  • Day 01 - Lecture E - Program to make algebraic operations two numbers, a calculator working in console mode using RPN
    Download of console RPN calculator program.
    Homework assignment:
    Implementation of a GUI RPN calculator for integer numbers.
    Incomplete code of program (to be completed).
    Executable solution program.

  • Day 01 - Lecture F - Object oriented modeling using the example of RPN calculator

  • Day 01 - Lecture G - Color / OpenGL
    Download of program.
    Tutorial to create program.

  • Day 01 - Lecture H - Event Driven Programming

  • Day 01 - Lecture I - Geometric Transformations in 2D
    Homework assignment:
    Implementation of a simple graphics program with window-viewport manipulation.
    Incomplete code of program (to be completed).
    Executable solution program.

  • Day 01 - Lecture J - Window-Viewport Transformation
    This material was obtained from the homepage of Abel Gomes, Associate Professor, Departamento of Informática, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal.

  • Day 02 - Lecture A - Curve Representations

  • Day 02 - Lecture B - Canvas mouse event tutorial
    Download of program.
    Executable solution program.
    Homework assignment:
    Implementation of a simple graphics program for creation of digital curves using the mouse and visualization of digital curves.
    Incomplete code of program (to be completed).
    Executable solution program.

  • Day 02 - Lecture C - Computational Geometry
    Homework assignment:
    Implementation of a simple graphics program for creation of regions from curves and for intersection of straight line segments.
    Incomplete code of program (to be completed).
    Executable solution program.

  • Day 02 - Lecture D - Geometric Modeling

  • Day 03 - Lecture A - Mesh Generation
    Implementation of a simple graphics program for simple mesh generation using discrete transfinite mapping algorithms.
    Incomplete code of program (to be completed).
    Executable solution program.

Content

References

• C++ in the Internet: www.cplusplus.com.

• B. Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, Addison-Wasley, 3rd edition, 2000.
  B. Stroustrup, C++ A Linguagem de Programação, Bookman Companhia, 3a edição, 2000.

• Rogers, D.F., Adams, J.A.; Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill International Editions, Computer Series, New York, 1990.

• Rogers, D.F.; Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics, McGraw-Hill International Editions, Computer Series, New York, 1985.

• Foley, J.D., van Dam, A., Feiner, S., Hughes, J.; Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition in C, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

• Qt - User Inteface Toolkit:
  Qt documentation.
  Qt course materials.

• OpenGL Programming Guide, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996.

• OpenGL – The Industry's Foundation for High Performance Graphics: www.opengl.org.

• Qt OpenGL Tutorial.