Course Notes

OpenGL (ES) APIs Table

Building OpenGL/GLUT Programs

Building OpenGL/GLFW Apps

Command-line Options and Third-party Libraries
 

OpenGL ES 2.0 Graphics Programming for Android - JAVA

OpenGL ES 3.1 Graphics Programming for Android - Native

OpenGL

Vulkan

OpenGL - Latest Articles and Reviews on AnandTech

Vulkan - Graphics and compute belong together

More on Vulkan and SPIR-V at GDC2015

An Overview of Next-Generation Graphics APIs at SIGGRAPH 2015

Vulkan on NVIDIA GPUs by Piers Daniell at Best of GTC at SIGGRAPH 2015 (video)

Vulkan Tutorial

Mantle - Latest Articles and Reviews on AnandTech

Apple's Metal

Thirty Days of Metal

Some Thoughts on Apple’s Metal API

Metal - Latest Articles and Reviews on AnandTech

Microsoft's Direct3D

Direct3D 12

Windows on Github

Direct3D - Latest Articles and Reviews on AnandTech

The DirectX 12 Performance Preview: AMD, NVIDIA, & Star Swarm

Exploring DirectX 12: 3DMark API Overhead Feature Test

GeForce + Radeon: Previewing DirectX 12 Multi-Adapter with Ashes of the Singularity

Direct3D 11

Microsoft Windows 8 D3D Tutorial

DirectXTutorial Direct3D 9 and 11 up to 11.2

RasterTek DirectX Tutorials Direct3D 10 and 11 (12 to come)

Microsoft Direct3D 11 tutorials

DirectXMath

HLSL

Direct3D 10 and earlier

Blythe, D., "The Direct3D 10 System," Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, 2006, and the accompanying presentation

The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline up to Direct3D 9.0

Direct3D 9 doc tree reading signposts

Ozone3D OpenGL & D3D 8.0 Tutorials

Drunken Hyena D3D8 Tutorials

WebGPU

Intro to WebGPU

From WebGL to WebGPU

Other articles, tutorials, books

SIGGRAPH 2009 courses not available in the above archive

Real-Time Rendering

GPU Gems

Merry, B., "Performance Tunig for Tile-Based Architectures," in OpenGL Insights, eds. Cozzi, P. and Riccio, C., CRC Press, 2012

nvidia's documentation

Eberly

Cg Tutorial

Object/Object Intersection Page

Color Mixing

Tone Mapping

Perlin Noise

Convolution Tutorial

Poynton's and Gamma FAQ

Void, Quaternions, 2003

Zorin et al.'s Subdivision GDC01 tutorial and code

Prusiniewicz, Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

Reynold's NPR site

Comet's 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, animation

GameDev.net

Game Developer Magazine

IT Hare's Programming Guide for Video-Gamers (thanks to Adam and Ally Fuller)

A STEM Student's Guide: Learning to Code and Design Video Games (thanks to Amelia and LouAnne Taylor)

The Technology Behind Virtual Reality: Coding and Design (thanks to Katie and Yazmin Casal)

Demoes and Interactive Tutorials

Austin's geometric explanation of SVD

Kalman, D., "A Singularly Valuable Decomposition: The SVD of a Matrix," The College Mathematics Journal, 27:2-23, 1996

Digital Image Processing Interactive Tutorials

BSP Trees Demo (old version)

Color Space Conversion

Michael Bach's 84 Optical Illusions

Refraction

Algebraic Surfaces

Curve Interpolation

Zymon's BRDF browser

Tools

GUI Toolkits

GLFW

OpenGL Related Toolkits and APIs

GLUT-like Windowing, GUI, and Media Control toolkits

The GUI Toolkit/Framework Page (old)

PUI

Shader development:

Nvidia's FX Composer

Javascript/WebGL scenegraphs:

three.js

SceneGraph.js

babylon.js

Non-WebGL x3dom

Scenegraphs/Game engine:

Unity Technologies' unity

Epic Games' Unreal Engine

OGRE3D (wiki) and CEGUI

Rendering engine:

POV-Ray

Arbaro: tree generation for povray

Radiance

Pixie: opensource Renderman

Sunflow

OpenQVis

glm: OpenGL Mathematics a header-only C++ math library based on GLSL specs

Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

OpenMesh: polygonal mesh data structure

Open Dynamics Engine: rigid body dynamics simulation

Encoding formats:

glTF

Collada (wiki)

X3D (Book and Resources)

X3D tutorials

File Formats

GD library

FreeImage

Data Sets

Stanford Data Archives

Debevec's Light Probe Image Gallery

Computer Vision Information Pages