CPSC 324, Fall 2002                        Information for the First Test
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     The first test for this course will be given in class on Monday,
September 30.  It will cover Chapter 2 (up to page 56) and Chapter 4
from "OpenGL Programming Guide", as well as everything we've done in
class and in the labs.  Here is a list of some of the things we have
covered:

   painting vs. drawing
   using a data structure to store information about objects in a scene
   capabilities and limitations of OpenGL graphics
   device coordinates and world coordinates
   viewport
   vertex
   simple convex polygon
   OpenGL as a "state machine"
   animation
   Basic 3D graphics concepts:  
      objects, material, texture, lighting, viewing
   Transformations in 3D: 
      rotation, scaling, translation
   camera
   rendering
   polygonal meshes
   edit mode in blender
   aspect ratio
   color
   color gamuts of display devices
   color models: RGB, CMY, CMYK, HSV, YIQ
   luminance
   the RGB cube and the HSV cone
   pixels
   aliasing and anti-aliasing
   alpha channel
   indexed color
   dithering
   Graphics file formats:  GIF, JPEG, PNG
   lossless vs. lossy compression
   Gimp painting tools
   gradients
   selections in Gimp
   Bezier curves
   layers in Gimp
   color channels in Gimp
   image composition in Gimp
   equivalence of masks and selections

   QT functions:
       initializeGL(), resizeGL(), paintGL(), updateGL() 

   OpenGL functions:
       glVertex3f, glVertex3f, glVertex3fv, glColor3f, glColor4f, 
       glClearColor, glClear, glBegin, glEnd, glRectf, gluOrtho2D
       glLineWidth, glLineStipple, glEnable, glFlush
       
   Parameters for glBegin:
       GL_POLYGON, GL_LINES, GL_LINE_LOOP