| Getting Started / 1： |
| Introduction / 1.1： |
| Access to Libraries / 1.2： |
| Data Types / 1.3： |
| Terminology / 1.4： |
| The OpenGL Utility Toolkit-GLUT / 1.5： |
| Our First Program / 1.6： |
| Drawing Primitives / 1.6.1： |
| Gaps, Lines and Blobs / 1.6.2： |
| Other Line Types / 1.6.3： |
| Surface Patterns and Polygon Stippling / 1.6.4： |
| Character Generation / 1.6.5： |
| Parametric Representation of Curves / 1.7： |
| The Growth or Logarithmic Spiral / 1.7.1： |
| Approximation and Processing Efficiency / 1.8： |
| Line Drawing / 1.8.1： |
| The Digital Difference Analyser / 1.8.2： |
| Bresenham's Algorithm / 1.8.3： |
| Bresenham's Algorithm for a Circle / 1.8.4： |
| Problem Solving Through Graphics / 1.9： |
| The Application Programming Interface (API) / 1.10： |
| The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) Library / 1.10.1： |
| Mouse Interaction / 1.10.2： |
| Keyboard Interaction / 1.10.3： |
| Exercises / 1.11： |
| Conclusion / 1.12： |
| Image File Formats / 2： |
| The Bitmap File / 2.1： |
| Bitmap-file Structure / 2.2.1： |
| A Typical File Layout / 2.2.2： |
| Reading and Drawing a Bitmap File / 2.2.3： |
| Creating a Display Window / 2.2.4： |
| Creating the Image for Display / 2.2.5： |
| Monochrome Bitmaps / 2.2.6： |
| A General Class for Input of Bit Map Files / 2.2.7： |
| Manipulating Bit Maps - Embossing / 2.2.8： |
| Audio/Video Interleaved (AVI) File Format / 2.3： |
| Chunk Hierarchy / 2.3.1： |
| An Example of Web Cam Display / 2.3.2： |
| Compression / 2.3.3： |
| Image Processing / 2.4： |
| Finding Objects / 3.1： |
| Edge Detection / 3.2.1： |
| Numerical Implementation / 3.2.2： |
| Sobel Operator / 3.2.3： |
| Convolution / 3.2.4： |
| Laplacian Operator / 3.2.5： |
| Smoothing and Edge Finding / 3.2.6： |
| Histogram Equalisation / 3.3： |
| Component (object) Labelling / 3.4： |
| Exploring Connectivity (1) / 3.4.1： |
| Exploring Connectivity (2) / 3.4.2： |
| Multiple Regions / 3.4.3： |
| Drawing on the Screen and Data Capture / 3.5： |
| Outlining of Areas of Interest on Images / 3.5.1： |
| An Approach to Automating Edge Detection / 3.5.2： |
| Transformations / 3.6： |
| Representing Points and Vectors / 4.1： |
| Vector Dot Products / 4.2.1： |
| The Vector Cross Product / 4.2.2： |
| Using the Cross Product to Provide Colour Variation to a Cylinder / 4.2.3： |
| Coordinate Systems / 4.3： |
| Rotation / 4.4： |
| A Simple Example of Rotation / 4.4.2： |
| General Rotations About Any Point / 4.4.3： |
| The Model View Matrix / 4.5： |
| Adding Some Movement / 4.6： |
| Movement of Composite Objects / 4.6.1： |
| The Orrery / 4.6.2： |
| The Internal Combustion Engine / 4.6.3： |
| Arms, Robots, Actuators and Movement / 4.6.4： |
| Data Capture of Limb Movement / 4.6.5： |
| Animation - A Walking Robot / 4.6.6： |
| Collision Detection / 4.7： |
| Viewing and Projection / 4.8： |
| Vertex Pipeline / 5.1： |
| The Viewing Process / 5.3： |
| Engineering Drawings / 5.3.1： |
| Orthographic or Parallel Projection / 5.4： |
| From Real World to Screen Window / 5.4.1： |
| Inside the Matrix / 5.4.2： |
| Getting to Grips with Where Things Are / 5.4.3： |
| Perspective Projection / 5.4.4： |
| Understanding the View / 5.4.5： |
| Lighting and Colour / 5.5： |
| The Electromagnetic Spectrum / 6.1： |
| Colour / 6.2.1： |
| Mixing Colours / 6.2.2： |
| The Shading Model / 6.2.3： |
| Lighting and Illumination / 6.3： |
| Setting up the Lighting / 6.3.1： |
| Addition of Specular Light / 6.3.2： |
| A Synthetic Face / 6.4： |
| Getting the Vertex Coordinates / 6.4.1： |
| Moving the Eye and Light Source Together / 6.4.2： |
| Shadows - A Projection / 6.5： |
| Derivation of the Shadow Outline Using Equation of a Line / 6.5.1： |
| A Polygon Moving Shadow / 6.5.2： |
| Texture Mapping / 6.6： |
| The Mapping Process / 7.1： |
| Setting up Textures / 7.3： |
| Drawing the Texture / 7.3.1： |
| Mapping onto Curved Surfaces / 7.4： |
| Mercator Lines of Projection / 7.4.1： |
| Quadric Surfaces / 7.4.2： |
| Mapping onto a Spherical Surface / 7.4.3： |
| Mapping one Image to Sphere / 7.4.4： |
| Cylinder Texturing Mapping / 7.4.5： |
| Mapping to a Circle / 7.4.6： |
| Mapping to a Cone / 7.4.7： |
| Mapping onto a General Surface / 7.4.8： |
| Mapping onto a Contour Surface / 7.4.9： |
| Adding Some Movement - A Rotating Hemisphere / 7.5： |
| Movement via the Mouse / 7.5.1： |
| Using Bit Maps to Provide Context / 7.6： |
| Blending / 7.6.1： |
| Manipulating Pixels / 7.6.2： |
| Three-Dimensional Texturing / 7.7： |
| Simulation of a Spherical Object / 7.7.1： |
| Building a Solid Model of a Head / 7.7.2： |
| Objects to Artefacts / 7.8： |
| Artefact Hierarchy / 8.1： |
| Construction Double Sided Squares / 8.2.1： |
| A Box as a Basic Building Block / 8.2.2： |
| Building a Table / 8.2.3： |
| Integrating to a System / 8.3： |
| Changing the Furniture Style / 8.4： |
| Curves, Surfaces and Patterns / 8.5： |
| Fitting a Line or a Curve / 9.1： |
| Straight Line Fitting to Data Points / 9.2.1： |
| Lagrange Polynomials and Curve Fitting / 9.2.2： |
| A Practical Approach to Curve Fitting / 9.2.3： |
| Curve Fitting Using Cubic Splines / 9.2.4： |
| Surface Construction from Contour Maps / 9.2.5： |
| A Spline Surface Construction / 9.2.6： |
| Bezier Curves / 9.2.7： |
| General Curve Representation / 9.2.8： |
| The Beginning's of a Bezier Surface / 9.2.9： |
| Using Rotation to Sweep Out a Ring / 9.2.10： |
| Patching a Surface / 9.2.11： |
| Complex Shapes and Fractal Geometry / 9.3： |
| Introductory Concepts / 9.3.1： |
| Reduction Copying / 9.3.2： |
| Implementation of a Sierpinski Gasket / 9.3.3： |
| Pascal's Triangle / 9.3.4： |
| The Sierpinski Gasket in 3 Dimensions / 9.3.5： |
| Order Out of Chaos - A Non-deterministic Gasket? / 9.3.6： |
| An Alternative Idea for a Tree or Plant / 9.3.7： |
| Koch Curves / 9.4： |
| Further Thoughts on the Koch Snowflake / 9.4.1： |
| Self-Similarity / 9.4.2： |
| Random Koch Fractals / 9.4.3： |
| Back to Trees and Bushes / 9.4.4： |
| Brownian Motion / 9.5： |
| Fractalised Lines / 9.5.1： |
| Fractal Surfaces / 9.5.2： |
| Appendix A / 9.6： |
| Starting up VC++ 6.0 / A.1： |
| Appendix B |
| Bresenham's Line Algorithm - General Conditions / B.1： |
| Appendix C |
| Matrix and Vector Algebra / C.1： |
| Matrix Addition or Subtraction / C.2： |
| Matrix Multiplication / C.3： |
| Matrix Vector Multiplication / C.4： |
| Example of Matrix Multiplication / C.5： |
| Shearing Matrices / C.6： |
| Appendix D |
| Equation of a Plane / D.1： |
| References |
| Index of Functions |
| Index |
| Getting Started / 1： |
| Introduction / 1.1： |
| Access to Libraries / 1.2： |
