Homework 1: Data Collection

Computer Graphics

2017-02-20

1. Introduction

Welcome to the homework section of Computer Graphic! CG is a vast and recent area in computer science. You can find more very interesting information about CG in references at the end of this homework. It might be too cruel to let you to write codes in your first homework. Hence, you are only required to do some paperwork and data searching in this homework. Good luck and have fun.(En Taro CG!)

Warning： We encourage discussions among students, but codes and documents should be written and submitted individually, without copying existed answers (Neither from other student nor from the Internet). Plagiarism = Fail. Besides, there may be at least 30% penalty for late homework.

2. Tasks

Write down the answers of following questions in your report.

2.1 Know OpenGL

OpenGL is basically an API standard for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. Answer the following questions:

What is OpenGL? OpenGL ES? WebGL? Vulkan? DirectX?
What is gl.h for? What about glu.h and glew.h?
Choose one project to introduce: The freeglut Project, The GLFW Project.

2.2 Know the State of the Art

SIGGRAPH is one of the most authoritative conference in Computer Graphics. It is also the world’s largest, most influential annual event in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Here(SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Courses) are some topics on SIGGRAPH-Asia 2016.

Choose your favorite topic. Try to explain what it is about and what CG technologies it is involved.

3. Submitting Format

Please submit your homework to sysucg2017@163.com. You subject of the email should be as same as your attachment(aka. your .zip file)

Only a .zip file should be submitted. Under the .zip file, the content should look like this:

classTpye_studentID_Name_hw?_version?/
　　|— doc/

classType: R for required(必修班); E for elective(选修班).
studentID: 1xxxxxxx
Name: Your Chinese Name.
hw?: Specific which homework you are submitting.
version?: Specific if you modify your submitted homework, only the last version would be graded. Started with version0.
doc/: Only one PDF should be included.

For example, a student in required class want to submit homework1 for the second time, his .zip file should be:

　　R_16214382_杨耀兴_hw2_version1.zip
　　　　|—R_16214382_杨耀兴_hw2_version1/
　　　　　　｜—doc/ 　　　　　　——放report.pdf

4. References

[1] 什么是计算机图形学: http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~lgliu/Resources/CG/What_is_CG.htm
[2] Definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_graphics
[3] GLFW http://www.glfw.org/
[4] freeglut: http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/
[5] SIGGRAPH: http://www.siggraph.org/