Introduction:
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The purpose of this assignment is to get you acquainted with the very
basics of any openGL/GLUT program. It is possible to run these programs
on all platforms. 

There are three labs in the CS department that you can work on:

> The WAM and Glue workstation labs, located on 1st floor of AVW, have
  both Sun Workstations running Solaris and a few PC's running
  Microsoft Windows.
> The Junkfood lab, located on 3rd floor of AVW, has a combination of
  worstations of various sorts. (This facility is typically only
  available to CS graduate students).
> CSIC Linux Lab, located on the 3rd floor of CSIC (just across the
  bridge), has PC's running Linux.
  
You will need a WAM account to log onto the WAM and Glue machines, a CS
department account to log onto a Junkfood machine, and a CSIC Linux lab
account (which all of you will be provided with) to log onto a CSIC
Linuxlab machine.  You may also work on your personal desktop/laptop,
provided you can run your program on one of the above machines during
assignment grading.

Sample Program:
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The program sample1.cpp is a simple OpenGL program written in C++. It
opens a small window and renders a teapot in it. You can go through the
code (C++) and get a feel for the basic structure common to all OpenGL
programs.

Please refer to files "ReadmeForWindows.txt" and "ReadmeForUnix.txt" for
information on how to get sample1.cpp up and running on Windows and Unix
environments respectively. 

Other Resources:
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Some very good sites that you might refer to throughout the semester
are:

For extensive reading on what openGL is (and tutorials):

  http://www.opengl.org/ 

For a very nice reference on openGL provided API (and tutorials):

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/opengl/openglstart_9uw5.asp

And some more nice tutorials with sample code:

  http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/
  http://nehe.gamedev.net/
  http://www.xmission.com/~nate/opengl.html