Introduction to Computer Graphics Table of Contents

Introduction to Computer Graphics, Version 1.4

Table of Contents

This is the Table of Contents for the free on-line textbook Introduction to Computer Graphics.

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Two-Dimensional Graphics

Section 2.1 Pixels, Coordinates, and Colors
Section 2.2 Shapes
Section 2.3 Transforms
Section 2.4 Hierarchical Modeling
Section 2.5 Java Graphics2D
Section 2.6 HTML Canvas Graphics
Section 2.7 SVG: A Scene Description Language

Chapter 3: OpenGL 1.1: Geometry

Section 3.1 Shapes and Colors in OpenGL 1.1
Section 3.2 3D Coordinates and Transforms
Section 3.3 Projection and Viewing
Section 3.4 Polygonal Meshes and glDrawArrays
Section 3.5 Some Linear Algebra
Section 3.6 Using GLUT and JOGL

Chapter 4: OpenGL 1.1: Light and Material

Section 4.1 Introduction to Lighting
Section 4.2 Light and Material in OpenGL 1.1
Section 4.3 Image Textures
Section 4.4 Lights, Camera, Action

Chapter 5: Three.js: A 3D Scene Graph API

Section 5.1 Three.js Basics
Section 5.2 Building Objects
Section 5.3 Other Features

Chapter 6: Introduction to WebGL

Section 6.1 The Programmable Pipeline
Section 6.2 First Examples
Section 6.3 GLSL
Section 6.4 Image Textures
Section 6.5 Implementing 2D Transforms

Chapter 7: 3D Graphics with WebGL

Section 7.1 Transformations in 3D
Section 7.2 Lighting and Material
Section 7.3 Textures
Section 7.4 Framebuffers
Section 7.5 WebGL Extensions

Chapter 8: Beyond Basic 3D Graphics

Section 8.1 Ray Tracing
Section 8.2 Path Tracing

Chapter 9: Introduction to WebGPU

Section 9.1 WebGPU Basics
Section 9.2 Instances and Indices
Section 9.3 WGSL
Section 9.4 3D Graphics With WebGPU
Section 9.5 Textures
Section 9.6 Compute Shaders
Section 9.7 Some Details

Appendix A: Programming Languages

Section A.1 The Java Programming Language
Section A.2 The C Programming Language
Section A.3 The JavaScript Programming Language
Section A.4 JavaScript Promises and Async Functions

Appendix B: Blender: A 3D Modeling Program

Section B.1 Blender Basics
Section B.2 Blender Modeling
Section B.3 Blender Animation
Section B.4 More on Light and Material

Appendix C: Gimp and Inkscape for 2D Graphics

Section C.1 Gimp: A 2D Painting Program
Section C.2 Inkscape: A 2D Drawing Program

Appendix D: Source Code for Sample Programs

Appendix E: Glossary

David Eck, August 2023