triangles & transforms

references

• transforms
  • recommended
    • Haines, E. Videos 191 (Translation) - 208 (Two Clock Hands) in the Udacity course Interactive 3D Graphics.
    • Hurst, J., Mahoney, M. S., Gilmore, J. T., Roberts, L. G., & Forrest, R. (1989, July). Retrospectives II: the early years in computer graphics at MIT, Lincoln Lab, and Harvard. (Focus on Lawrence Roberts section). In ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics (Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 39-73). ACM. (ncsu)
    • Marshner & Shirley. (2016). Chapter 6.1-6.3, Transformation Matrices. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, AK Peters. (ncsu)
  • Other
    • Essence Of Linear Algebra video series for brushing up on linear algebra and matrix math (Jacob Stone, jcstone3)
    • Roberts, L. G. (1963). Machine perception of three-dimensional solids (Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
• models & triangles
  • recommended
    • Haines, E. Videos 85 (Triangles) and 89 (Triangulation and Tessellation) - 93 (How Many Triangles?) in the Udacity course Interactive 3D Graphics.
    • Marshner & Shirley. (2016). Chapter 12.1-12.1.2, Data Structures for Graphics. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, AK Peters. (ncsu)
  • optional
    • Michael R. Garey, David S. Johnson, Franco P. Preparata, Robert E. Tarjan, Triangulating a simple polygon, Information Processing Letters, Volume 7, Issue 4, June 1978, Pages 175-179. (ncsu)

sites

• A discussion in nvidia's book on CG, it's shading language.
• Another discussion in the XNA documentation.
• A discussion in the DirectX documentation.

demos

• openGL
  • By Nate Robins
• webGL
  • Eck's
    • 2d transforms
    • 3d rotation
    • 3d transforms
  • Web fundamentals
    • 2d translate
    • 2d rotate
    • 2d scale
    • 2d matrices
  • jsfiddle
    • modeltransform
    • mouse cube rotation
  • Blog o Ben
    • wireframe
  • Haines
    • teapot
    • teacup
    • teaspoon
    • sphere
  • 3D viewers
    • 3dviewer.net, cannot handle mtl files
    • lazarSoft
    • cornell