1. So how does the computer do it? MoonLander one of the earliest computer games. Originally commissioned by Digital Equipment Corporation to demonstrate a dedicated graphics display in 1973 . Based on a text only game written in Basic.

3. Principles of Computer Graphics COMP3004 2011/2012 Introduction Dr. John Carter (jnc@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

11. Application Areas

12. Synthetic Actors

14. Games

15. Visualisation Example

16. More Data Visualisation.

17. GnuPlot a Scientific Graphing tool set yrange [0:1.1] set logscale x set key outside set rmargin 15 set xlabel 'Time between measurements (days)' set ylabel 'Recognition rate' set grid plot '-' using 2:1 / title 'Rate' with linespoints, '-' / using 1:2 title 'Average' with lines 0.974025974 0.083333333 0.932481752 1 0.992307692 2 0.592436975 216.00 0.738589212 275.00 0.432773109 491.00 e 0.01 0.98 999 0.98 e

18. User Interface Example Using Python and TKInter, user interfaces can be fun. from Tkinter import * root = Tk() t = "Hello, world!" w = Label(root,text = t) w.pack() root.mainloop()

20. More History: Spacewar!

23. Early Days

25. Some SVG <?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?> <svg xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&quot;> <g style=&quot;fill-opacity:0.7; stroke:black; stroke-width:0.1cm;&quot;> <circle cx=&quot;6cm&quot; cy=&quot;2cm&quot; r=&quot;100&quot; style=&quot;fill:red;&quot; transform=&quot;translate(0,50)&quot; /> <circle cx=&quot;6cm&quot; cy=&quot;2cm&quot; r=&quot;100&quot; style=&quot;fill:blue;&quot; transform=&quot;translate(70,150)&quot; /> <circle cx=&quot;6cm&quot; cy=&quot;2cm&quot; r=&quot;100&quot; style=&quot;fill:green;&quot; transform=&quot;translate(-70,150)&quot;/> </g> </svg> Now Mozilla and family can draw SVG

27. Angle E “ Interactive Computer Graphics: A top-down approach with Shader-Based OpenGL ”, Addison Wesley 2009, (5 th Edition) Th is is the official course text . (5 th edition is ok, but not OpenGL 3+) F.S. Hill, Jr “ Computer Graphics Using OpenGL ” Prentice-Hall 2001 (and later) This is a good alternative. J., D., Foley et al., &quot; Introduction to Computer Graphics &quot;, Addison Wesley 1994. So is this one but it doesn't speak OpenGl M. Woo et al. “ OpenGL Programming Guide ” Addison Wesley 1999 The so called Red Book, the official how-to guide, free electronic copies available, use Google.

32. GP2X Open Hardware See http://gp2x.co.uk/ordergp2x.html Note that this course is almost the only way that you can get you play with a GP2X.

36. Real work starts next lecture.

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