Developing Graphics Frameworks 26 Geometry

Create another extension of the

Create the base

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

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

Create a Polygon

Create extensions of the base Material class that enable

Create customized

Learn how to derive the parametric functions for a cylinder. See how using a small number of sample points along the ...

Learn about how surfaces of three-dimensional objects can be represented by a parametric function: the x, y, z coordinates are ...

Create the base Material class, which defines the overall appearance of

Learn how to use the recently added functionality from the Input class to change values of Uniform variables and move

Create shader programs containing uniform variables used to change the position and set the color of a

Learn how to use shader variables with the type qualifiers "in" and "out" to pass data from the vertex shader to the fragment shader ...

Learn about local coordinate systems and local transformations, how the accumulated transformations applied to an object are ...

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

Learn about the four stages of the

Learn how to represent translation transformations with matrix multiplication by introducing homogeneous coordinates.

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