OpenGL Headline News
Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware using the OpenGL API and Cg
Category: Developers •
Jan 31, 2005
This Master’s Thesis presents how to implement a ray tracer supporting reflection, refraction, texturing and more, using C++, GLUT, the OpenGL API and pixel shaders & vertex shaders. It also present a way to speed up rendering (relative to standard grid traversal) using proximity clouds. Source code and the full thesis is available for download.
iDance uses the OpenGL API to let users learn how to dance to the latest songs
Category: Applications •
Jan 31, 2005
iDance with D-Player is a real time OpenGL API-based 3D dance learning environment where a cyberdancer dances to music. The user can see the latest dance moves by selecting the characters and watching them in slow motion, section repetition, angle-adjusting function, zoom in and zoom out. Since the dance data is motion captured data from actual professional dancers, the movements are fluid and natural.
gDEBugger v1.2 OpenGL API debugger adds textures support
Category: Developers •
Jan 31, 2005
gDEBugger is an OpenGL API debugger, traces application activity on top of the OpenGL API letting programmers see what is happening within the graphic system implementation. The new v1.2 includes an interactive texture viewer that displays render contexts texture objects, texture objects parameters and the textures’ data as an image. 1D, 2D, 3D and cube map texture data viewing is supported. This version also includes performance improvements, bug fixes and new OpenGL extensions support.
OpenGL texturing tutorials
Category: Developers •
Jan 31, 2005
These two texturing tutorials explain how to generating textures and use BMP files to texture objects for OpenGL API rendering. The site also features other game related tutorials including a port of the texturing tutorial to SDL for non-Windows OSes.
AgentFX V2.1.1 Java/OpenGL API-based 3D engine adds support for shader-skinned models
Category: Developers •
Jan 28, 2005
AgentFX is a platform independent 3D-engine written in Java and uses the OpenGL API to deliver high-end features like real-time shadow volumes and dynamic lights. The new v2.1.1 of AgentFX is mainly an update but also integerates skelton-based models with shaders using Cg language. Tutorials shows how to use shader-skinned skelton-based models.
