Example program: rotating_camera_demo.c
CS-116A: Introduction to Computer Graphics
Instructor: Rob Bruce
Fall 2016
This program demonstrates how to animate or move the camera in OpenGL. The program draws three spheres on the screen: one red, one green, and one blue. Then the camera rotates in a cicular motion around the three spheres. The camera remains focused on the three spheres as it rotates around them.
The full source code for rotating_camrea_demo.c is available at http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~bruce/programs/fall_2016_cs_116a/rotating_camera_demo/rotating_camera_demo.c
A Makefile to build this code on your Linux solid state drives is available at http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~bruce/programs/fall_2016_cs_116a/rotating_camera_demo/linux_makefile/Makefile (right mouse click then select "Save Link As..." to download)
A Makefile to build this code on Mac OSX is available at http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~bruce/programs/fall_2016_cs_116a/rotating_camera_demo/osx_makefile/Makefile (right mouse click then select "Save Link As..." to download)
NOTE: Make sure you DO NOT call your Makefile Makefile.txt
Your Makefile should be called simply Makefile with NO EXTENSION.
At a terminal on the command line, enter "make" in the same directory where you downloaded rotating_camera_demo.c and Makefile.
Robert Bruce
Research
Courses
Fall 2016, CS-116A:
Lectures:
- Introduction to OpenGL and GLUT
- Fractals
- Splines
- Mesh: Vertices, Edges, and Faces
- Event driven programming, capturing keypresses and mouse clicks
- Camera and clipping plane
- Animating the camera
- Light and Color (part 1 of 2)
- Light and Color (part 2 of 2)
- Graphics File Formats
- Creating mouse-driven menus in GLUT
- Developing Graphical user interface widgets with OpenGL
- Hidden surface removal
- GLSL: OpenGL Shading Language (part 1 of 2)
- GLSL: OpenGL Shading Language (part 2 of 2)
- Accelerated Graphics Hardware (GPU)
- Metaballs and Blobbies
- Linear transformations
- Coordinate systems in OpenGL
- Introduction to Blender
- Algorithmic animation and modelling (part 1 of 2)
- Algorithmic animation and modelling (part 2 of 2)
- Squash, Stretch, and Bounce: The twelve principles of animation
- Character Rigging for animation
- Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
- Introduction to WebGL
Assignments:
Handouts:
- Creating a bootable Linux Mint flash drive
- How to update software on Linux Mint
- Installing OpenGL libraries in Linux Mint
Programs:
- mouse_keyboard_click_position
- rotating_camera_demo
- example_glut_menu
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