Some Resources

The following links could be helpful for the programming of the projects:

• OpenGL main page. Look in particular at the resources section, and its Tutorials and Classes part. Among the tutorials, the one by Nehe Productions seems pretty thorough (long, well-structured, and with coverage of quite a number of areas).

• Online version (older version) of the Open GL Programming Guide.

• OpenGL intro from a Stanford course (ppt).

• OpenGL intro from a University of Colorado course.

• The Lightweight Java Game Library.

• Tutorial on Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques Using OpenGL (1999).

• If you are really ambitious, note that the industry standard Maya 3D modeling animation and animation software has a "personal learning edition" which is free for non-commercial use.

• Lots of down-to-earth info (3D programming related) on matrices on these faqs from a site on Java 3D.

• Nice overview article (in 11 parts) on the elements of a game engine.

• The Game AI Page has lots of info on game AI, including some info on what methods are used in concrete games (see under "Topics" in left sidebar). See "Resources Quick Jump" at bottom of page for links to actual technical material.

• Another good collection of technical info on Game AI, maintained by Alex J. Champandard.

• Three very nice collections of resources on computer game programming are the websites of Tomas Akenine-Möller and Eric Haines, Craig Reynolds, and Jeff Lander. For some of the sites, you'll need to explore the site a bit to find the lists of resources.

• Lecture notes from SIGGRAPH 2001 course by Witkin and Baraff on physically based modelling.

• Simon Clavet maintains a very nice (and large) collection of pointers to scientific papers in the area of physically based modelling in graphics.

• DevMaster.net is one site devoted to gathering sources for game development.

• Flipcode is another site (now fixated) devoted to sources for game development. In particular, see the collection of articles and tutorials.

• For a good list of papers about LOD, see this page of the Virtual Terrain Project (which has lots of information on terrain visualization).

• The syllabus from a course by Benjamin Watson at Northwestern, with a contents quite similar to DM80. Many relevant references to quality material, a reasonable amount of which is online.