CMSC 427 - Computer Graphics

Assignment 1

Due: 11:00am Friday, September 28, 2001

Assignment 1 Handout (PDF)

Startup Code

If you are having problems with GLUTCALLBACK declaration in compiling the assignment this is because the version of GLUT that you are using is older than version 3.7. A simple fix is to globally replace all occurences of GLUTCALLBACK to void. We have made this change to the above source code.

A sample executable for the above program for Windows 2000 is here. It expects the bkg.dt data file in the same directory to display the background image.

If you are using gcc compiler on WAM's UNIX machines, this Makefile works.

Useful links on OpenGL and GLUT

The background Image for Assignment 1 in the .bmp format. This is for those students who will like to write their own image readers or use those with Java3D. This format will not work with Assignment 1 source code above.

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