UPCOMING CLASSES

Date	Instructor	Price	Status	Venue
Jun 17 - Jun 21	Blocksom	$3700	Wait List! Sold Out	Atlanta, Georgia

What You’ll Learn

Upon completion of OpenGL ES, the student will be able to:

• Specify 3D geometry for OpenGL
• Write vertex and fragment shaders for full control over 3D rendering
• Understand how to use transformation matrices to position objects in a 3D scene
• Create perspective and orthogonal views
• Texture 3D objects with images
• Control lighting in a 3D scene
• Control the camera in both first and third person views
• Add special effects like bump mapping and shadow mapping
• Render point clouds and make animated particle systems
• Select 3D objects in a rendered scene
• Understand how popular open source projects use OpenGL
• Create higher level scene graphs powered by OpenGL rendering
• Use OpenGL ES on iOS, Android, and WebGL
• Explain the difference is between the fixed function and programmable pipelines
• Write geometry shaders for tessellating objects

OpenGL ES SYLLABUS

Section	Contents
Open OpenGL ES Bootcamp
Hello, Triangle	Introduction to OpenGL going through everything needed to draw a triangle
Vertex Shaders	Introduction to vertex shaders; uniforms; translate, scale, and rotation
Transformation Matrices	2D transformation matrices for translate, rotate, scale; composing transformations
Geometry	Points, lines, triangle strips
Hierarchical Modeling	Matrix stacks
Fragment Shaders	Introduction to Fragment shaders and textures
Projection Transforms	Introduction to orthogonal and perspective transforms
3D Viewing I	Polarview style 3D viewing (elevation and azimuth); practice composing transforms
3D Viewing II	Flight simulator style viewing transforms
Geometry II	Loading objects; common data formats
Surface Normals and Lighting	How to calculate surface normals and implement basic directional lighting
Lighting and Materials	How to specify material properties for effects like plastic and metal rendering
Image Textures	How to load image textures in OpenGL and apply them to 3D objects
Procedural Textures	How to create textures from mathematical functions
Noise	How to generate natural materials such as wood and marble from Perlin noise functions
Cube Maps and Reflection Mapping	How to render immersive backgrounds using cube maps or skyboxes and reflect them on internal objects
Bump Maps	How to displace normals on 3D objects for bumpy effects
Cartoon Rendering	How to render something as if it were a cartoon
Point Rendering	Point clouds, point sprites, billboards, and particle systems
Shadow Mapping	Using depth maps for creating real time shadows
Anti-Aliasing	Smoothing rough edges with
Geometry Shaders	Tessellating objects using OpenGL geometry shaders
Scene Graphs	Building higher level data structures for 3D rendering and learning how popular 3D scene graphs work

REQUIREMENTS

For best results, students should know a procedural programming language (such as C) and have a basic understanding of trigonometry and vector mathematics.