Developing Graphics Frameworks 21 Local Transformations

Summary

Write a Matrix class that can be used to generate Create extensions of the base Material class that enable geometric shapes to be rendered as points, lines, or triangulated ... Learn how to use the recently added functionality from the Input class to change values of Uniform variables and move geometric ... Learn about the OpenGL functions used to send shader code to the GPU, compile shader programs, link shaders to create a ... Based on student and viewer feedback, in order to increase cross-platform compatibility, a few changes are introduced in this ... Test the code in the Texture class, UV coordinates, and TextureMaterial shader by Learn about the four stages of the Learn about why uniform variables are useful, the OpenGL functions needed to upload uniform data to the GPU, and create a ... Create the Object3D class, which corresponds to a node in the scene graph, stores a model matrix, and references to its parent ... Learn how to derive a perspective projection matrix: given a viewable region represented with a frustum (truncated pyramid) ... Create the base Geometry class, which defines the overall shape of geometric objects and stores vertex-related properties (such ... Learn about scene graphs: a tree data structure that organizes the 3D objects in a scene. Then learn about the main classes that ...