Developing Graphics Frameworks 27 Material Base Class

Create the

Create extensions of the

Learn about scene graphs: a tree data structure that organizes the 3D objects in a scene. Then learn about the main

Create axes and grids that help provide a sense of orientation and scale within a scene.

Learn how to derive the parametric functions for a sphere, and how the equations of a sphere are related to the equations of an ...

Learn how to derive a perspective projection matrix: given a viewable region represented with a frustum (truncated pyramid) ...

Learn about why uniform variables are useful, the OpenGL functions needed to upload uniform data to the GPU, and create a ...

Learn about the OpenGL functions used to send shader code to the GPU, compile shader programs, link shaders to create a ...

Create the

Create customized Geometry and

Test the code in the Texture

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 ...

Learn about setting up Python, installing the packages needed for

Create a Polygon Geometry

Learn about the OpenGL functions needed to generate vertex buffer objects, upload vertex data to the GPU, and specify ...

Create another extension of the Geometry

Learn how to create vertex array objects to manage the associations between vertex buffer data and attribute ("in") variables in a ...