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Programming Courses

SGI OpenGL On-Going Programming Courses

• The OpenGL Programming 1 course helps application programmers master graphics programming using OpenGL. Students learn to view and model in 3D, and to create animated, wire frame and solid geometry, under interactive control from input devices. Students will add lighting and other effects to increase realism.

OpenGL SIGGRAPH & Game Developer Conference Courses
These courses demonstrate sophisticated and novel computer graphics programming techniques. The techniques are implemented in C using the OpenGL library. By explaining the concepts and demonstrating the techniques required to generate images of greater realism and utility, the courses helps developers achieve two goals: they gain a deeper insight into OpenGL functionality and computer graphics concepts, while expanding their "toolbox" of useful OpenGL techniques.

• SIGGRAPH 96: Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Rendering
  Course Notes in html format
  Example programs
  
  
• SIGGRAPH 97: Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Techniques
  Course Overview
  Course Notes in html format.
  Course Slides in html format.
  Example Programs
  
  
• SIGGRAPH 98: Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Techniques
  Course Overview
  
  
• Game Developers Conference '99: Advanced OpenGL Game Development
  
  
• SIGGRAPH 99: Programming with OpenGL: Lighting & Shading Techniques and Advanced Techniques
  Course Overviews, Notes & Source Code
  
  

SGI OpenGL Programming Kitchen/Lab
In October and November of 1997, Silicon Graphics, 3DLabs, and Texas Instruments presented a series of lectures and programming labs to game developers working principally on Microsoft Windows platforms. These lectured discussed basic techniques fro improving performance and visual realism. The following pages provide the presentations from those lectures.

• OpenGL Overview
• Advanced Lighting Techniques
• Advanced Texture Mapping Techniques
• OpenGL 1.2 Features
• Performance Techniques
• Lab programs and data files for Windows NT and 95 Systems using Microsoft's OpenGL Implementation.
• Lab programs and data files for IRIX (and most other Unix) Systems.

OpenGL Programming Tutorials