OpenGL / C / C++ - an example to get you started

For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

A Computer Graphics application in C / C++ - that's the coding that one of my delegates is going to be doing for her "real work" after this week's course, and I found myself looking back to old times - when I used (amongst other things) to subcontract to Silicon Graphics to present courses on their GL Library - the forerunner of OpenGL.

It's surprising just how quickly things come back - this graphic was a quick example that I played with, setting up an image, drawing some vectors onto it, and swapping my buffers - the Silicon Graphics system was almost always double buffered, and (joy of joys) addressable with world rather than pixel co-ordinates.

The pretty pattern shown here is quite a short program - a "hello graphics world" example that I wrote to show a very simple program, and all the libraries, etc, that were needed at load time for it to work on my system (Xcode on Mac OS X). Source is [here] and includes my load line so that you - if you have a similar environment to mine - won't end up having to play "hunt the include file" and "hunt the library".

(written 2011-01-26)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

Q913 - Object Orientation and General technical topics - Computer Graphics Principles
  [2245] Client side (Applet) and Server side (Servlet) Graphics in Java - (2009-06-17)
  [2633] Why do I teach niche skills rather than mainstream? - (2010-02-13)
  [2758] But what will you DO with all those pictures? - (2010-05-09)
  [2992] Matplotlib - graphing in Python - teaching examples - (2010-10-10)
  [3049] Computer Graphics is fun - even if Java Applets are Old Hat - (2010-11-13)
  [3211] Computer Graphics in PHP - World (incoming data) to Pixel (screen) conversion - (2011-03-24)
  [3261] Scalable Vector Graphics - easy, low bandwidth, high resolution, dynamic. - (2011-04-23)
  [3262] Some SVG Elements, pixel and percent positioning - (2011-04-24)

C211 - C and C based languages - Standard Libraries and other headers
  [2575] Sharing variables between files of code in C - extern - (2010-01-14)
  [3234] Your program - you just provide the filling in the sandwich - (2011-04-08)
  [3244] C and C++ - preprocess, compile, load, run - what each step is for - (2011-04-12)
  [4465] Sockets, time handling and keyboard interrupt handling in C - (2015-03-27)

Back to
Hotel star ratings - towards a better system of review

Previous and next
or
Horse's mouth home

Forward to
Looking back at www.wellho.net

Some other Articles

Jargon busting
Disassembling Python and Java - previously compiled code
Python dictionaries - mutable and immutable keys and values
Looking back at www.wellho.net
OpenGL / C / C++ - an example to get you started
Hotel star ratings - towards a better system of review
Strings in C
Structures v Structure Pointers in C. How, which, why.
Setting up arrays in C - fixed size at compile time, or dynamic
On time

4759 posts, page by page

Link to page ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 at 50 posts per page

This is a page archived from The Horse's Mouth at http://www.wellho.net/horse/ - the diary and writings of Graham Ellis. Every attempt was made to provide current information at the time the page was written, but things do move forward in our business - new software releases, price changes, new techniques. Please check back via our main site for current courses, prices, versions, etc - any mention of a price in "The Horse's Mouth" cannot be taken as an offer to supply at that price.

Link to Ezine home page (for reading).
Link to Blogging home page (to add comments).

You can Add a comment or ranking to this page

Like this? ??