Graphics with OpenGL

Also see My Graphics Programming Notes & Links.

• Getting Started with OpenGL per opengl.org/resources/faq/technical/
• Visit http://www.opengl.org/ for a wealth of info and resources
• NeHe OpenGL Tutorial at gamedev.net (Neon Helium) News:: 6-28-2005: GAMEDEV.NET ACQUIRES NEHE PRODUCTIONS GameDev.net, LLC, the leading online community for game developers, today announced the acquisition of NeHe Productions. NeHe will continue to operate as an independent website under the management of GameDev.net.
• OpenGL Directory by pzeta.org
• Getting Started with OpenGL from codeproject.com, Amol Kakhandki, 29 Apr 2002

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• pyopengl.sourceforge.net download pyOpenGL to make python 2.4 able to do openGL
  Installtion steps:
  download and install Tcl/TK (and of course, Python 2.4)
  if you don't already have it, download and install glut-3.7.6
  download and install PIL (Python Imaging Library),
  download and install numby 23 (Not the same as numarray!) Note: be careful to match versions of numby and pyOpenGL
  download and install PyOpenGL-2.0.1.09.py2.4-numpy23.exe (in the filename is the version of numby...)
  OpenGLContext is a teaching overlay to pyOpenGL. It requires several other packages...
• GlutInit documentation and example programs GLut is part of pyopenGL. GlutInit is a function call fundamental to using GLut.
• numarray needed in NeHe lesson01.py along with pyopenGL.
• OpenGLContext needed in NeHe lesson01.py along with pyopenGL.
• Python Imaging Library (PIL) used in NeHe lesson18.py
• www.py3d.org
• Paper about Pivy, a binding between python and an OpenGL platform called "Coin"

  Coin, which implements the SGI Open Inventor 2.1 API. Coin is portable over a wide range of platforms (any UNIX / Linux / *BSD platform, all Microsoft Windows operating systems, and Mac OS X) and adds additional features missing in the original SGI Open Inventor API such as VRML97 support, 3D Sound, 3D Textures, Multi-threading and parallel rendering. Additionally GUI bindings implementing viewer widgets for several GUI toolkits (Qt, Gtk, Xt, Cocoa, Win32) are available. Coin is Open Source and has an active and growing community.

• Stani's DXF Python: CAD system
  Example:

  import sdxf
  d=sdxf.Drawing()
  d.append(sdxf.Text('Hello World!',point=(3,0,1)))
  d.append(sdxf.Line(points=[(0,0,0),(1,1,1)]))
  d.saveas('hello_world.dxf')
  

  DXF is an abbreviation of Data Exchange File, a vector graphics file format. It is supported by virtually all CAD products (such as AutoCAD, Blender, 3Dstudio, Maya,Vectorworks...) and vector drawing programs (such as Illustrator, Flash, ...).

  To install, simply put sdxf.py in site-packages directory!
  Note: output is a .dxf file! need viewer to appreciate it...

• PyPI: Python Package Index - Browse over 600 packages at python.org
• Mark Summerland wrote Turtle2 graphics and a neat number game http://www.summerland.uku.co.uk/sudoku.zip">sudoku as well as the 2004 book C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 (ISBN 0-13-124072-2). (You can also download the whole book free as a 21MB PDF file. from phptr.com/bookstore)

  Qt is a graphics environment by TrollTech

  Qt is Open Source
  Through Trolltech's Dual Licensing Model, Qt delivers all of the advantages of Open Source in a commercially-supported, proven framework

• RatFun: Rational and Polynomial Functions
  • Create polynomials and rational functions with an arbitrary number of coefficients. The coefficients can be any numeric type (conversion to complex is the test of a numeric type).
  • Support the usual arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /, **). Polynomials also support %, and divmod.
  • Combine polynomials, rational functions, and ordinary numbers together in arithmetic expressions.
  • Automatically handles rational and extended precision floating point coefficients if the gmpy module is installed. This includes converting integers to rationals when a division is performed.
  • Evaluate a polynomial or rational function by calling it.
• gmpy: General MultiPrecision Python Project Last updated on: 2003, Aug 8; for GMPY release: 1.0 alpha
• Tkinter: Python interface to Tcl/Tk Worth mentioning: Python COMES WITH this graphics module!

back to top Java Open GL

• Jogl User's Guide
• How to build the Jogl OpenGL binding for Java

back to top C++

• London Metropolitan University Lecture 2: Using C++ and OpenGL
  GREAT SIMPLE EXAMPLES!! (Note 1-17-2011 link is gone...)