The Complete Course of OpenGL and Computer Graphics

Explore OpenGL rendering modes, from immediate mode to shader based rendering, including display lists, vertex array rendering, vertex buffer objects, deferred rendering, forward rendering, and ray tracing.

Explore how to render basic shapes in OpenGL using vertex buffer objects, numpy arrays, and Python, drawing points, lines, triangles, rectangles, and preparing for shading.

Explore colors and shading in OpenGL by building a reusable renderer for basic shapes, applying vertex and fragment shaders, and interpolating colors across triangles and quads.

Discover translation, rotation, and scaling in OpenGL, implemented with matrices applied to vertex positions. Learn to combine these transforms in a shader to rotate, translate, and scale a rectangle.

Map an image as a texture onto a rendered object using 2d textures and texture coordinates, rotate and flip axes for orientation, and sample the texture in the fragment shader.

Explore texture filtering and mipmapping in OpenGL, comparing linear and anisotropic filtering, enabling anti-aliasing, and improving texture clarity as objects scale and rotate.

Render a 3d cube by building vertex data and indices, using a vertex buffer object and shaders, and a camera with view projection, plus per-face colors and depth testing.

Learn to render a colored cube with depth buffering and perspective projection by using element array buffers and indices, enabling depth testing, and applying per-face colors in OpenGL.

Explore ambient, diffuse, and specular lighting to achieve realistic shading. Learn how light position, normals, and camera drive shaders for flat and Phong models.

Explore how to model material properties in OpenGL, including ambient, diffuse, and specular shading, shininess, and texture mapping, with examples of wood, copper, and emission effects.

Render multiple objects on one screen with a vertex array object, supporting different materials, textures, and shaders, while managing camera and lighting. Explore using textures and lighting for varied appearances.

Implement frame buffers for off-screen rendering to support multiple camera views and project three-dimensional scenes onto a two-dimensional surface, including depth testing and texture-based display.

Explore the graphics pipeline from OpenGL to Vulkan and DirectX, comparing abstraction levels, driver overhead, and cross-platform considerations while outlining CPU to rasterization stages and shader processing.

Create games with OpenGL by using vertices, textures, and pre-made objects, importing from Blender and Wavefront; optimize performance with mipmaps and anisotropy.

OpenGL project part-1 introduces setting up the development environment, including camera, light, textures, and shaders, and building a gun–target scene with a mini camera and framebuffer.

Implement firing by creating bullets at the gun position, moving them along the front direction at speed 0.1, and rendering with a dedicated material and shader.

Cover OpenGL in Python from basic 2D shapes using VBOs and vertex attributes, to 3D rendering with VAOs, EBOs, shaders, textures, lighting, camera, and frame buffers.

Test your OpenGL and computer graphics knowledge through a final assessment that covers rendering algorithms, transformations, shading, texture mapping, depth buffering, and perspective and orthographic projections.