COSC 3P98 Computer Graphics

This web page illustrates student work from the COSC 3P98 Computer Graphics course. This is an introductory course that concentrates on graphics fundamentals and basic OpenGL programming. The examples shown are from programming assignments, as well as term projects (applications and animations).

All programs, images, and movies Copyright © of the respective authors.

3D Animations

1995 // 1996 // 1997 // 1998 // 1999
2000 // 2001 // 2002 // 2003 // 2004
2005 // 2006 // 2007 // 2008 // 2009
2010 // 2011 // 2012 // 2013 // 2014
2015 // 2016 // 2019 // 2021W // 2021F
2023W // 2023F

OpenGL and C/C++ Programming

Screen Saver

• dvdsaver.mp4 by Michael Boulet (W2023)

Bitmap filter and FX gallery

Procedural Textures

• Rikveet Singh Hayer (2021):
  • Textures:
    Texture_1_a.png
    Texture_1_b.png, Texture_2.png, Texture_3.png, Texture_4.png, Texture_5.png, Texture_6.png, Texture_7.png

  • Animated textures (GIF): 10.gif, 11.gif, 3.gif, 8.gif

Computational geometry

• 2D hulls and peels
  • 20,000 random 2D convex hull peel by Zaid Aljarah (2004). And another hull peel entitled Vortex.
  • Convex hull peels on random points: 100 point and 10000 point by Richard Host (2003).
  • A hull peel of a 250x250 lattice by Michael Piskuric (2004).
  • A hull peel of 100000 random pts by Chris Bernier (2004).
  • 2D hull peels: 50,000 points and 250,000 points by Corrado Coia (2005)
  • 2d peel on 100,000 random points by Adam Stirtan (2008)

• 2D hull peels on clustered data.
  • 1000 points by Matthew Glanfield (2005)
  • 2D multi-peel by Andrew Runka (2006)
  • 10,000 points, 25,000 points, 100,000 points, 500,000 points by Jordan Evens (2005).
    The 100,000 point took about 12 seconds, and the 500,000 point took about 4.5 minutes.
  • 50 clusters on 500K points. by Pawel Jocko (2016).
  • 500K points and 1 million points by Seth Shickluna-Pierce (2021).
    Both were done using 12 threads and shared memory multiprocessing.
    500K took approximately 2 minutes, and 1M around 4 minutes.
    Hardware is an AMD Ryzen 5-2600x and an RTX 2080 GPU.
  • Cluster peel 1 and cluster peel 2 by Joel Jacob (2021)

• 3D Hulls
  • 40000-point 3D convex hull on unit sphere by Eric Stock (2002).
  • A 3D hull peel of concentric spheres by Earl Foxwell (2004).
  • 3d peel by Dmitry Tashnev (2006)
  • 3D Hull Peel movie by Neil Skrypuch (2007):
    3D peel avi, 3D peel screenshot, 3D peel wireframe screenshot.

• Triangulations
  • 100 by 100 lattice 2D triangulation by Sean Thompson (1999)
  • Trisection on point grid by Jeff Mason (2002).
  • Random 52000 pt 2D triangulation by Herman Yu (2002):
    before cleanup trisection, first pass cleanup, and after completed clean-up.
    
  • Triangulation application (linux) by Chip Hogg (2004). Some screen dumps...
    • 3,141,592 random 2D point trisection/cleanup (38 Mb PNG).
      Total processing time: 2 hr 47 min 20 sec.
      Cleanup stats: 25.99 million swaps in 104 passes.
    • Random 60,000 pt triangulation applied to a Bessel function. Includes lighting effects.
  • Triangulation movies by Pascal Comte (2007):
    5000 pts, clean up (wire), clean up (shaded); 500 pts and another.
  • Triangulated bitmap images by Matt Peskett (2015): One. Two. Three. Four.
  • Triangulation by Joel Jacob. (2021)

• Minimal Spanning Trees
  • 2D MST examples by Maike Rees (2015): 30 points, 50 points, 100 points, 100 points.

Particles and flocking

• Pixel/Vertex shading animation by Adrian Harrington
• Alife: A Genetic Algorithm with Competitive 3D Fish by Adam Hewgill (2002). Windows. PDF tech report.
• Particle fountain by Dwight Follick (2003). Windows. Screenshot.
• 3D Particle Simulation by Chris Bernier (2004). Windows. Screenshot.
• Particool: 3D Particle Simulation (linux) by Chip Hogg (2004). Screenshots: one. two.
• Particle system screenshots one, two, and three by Joseph Brown (2006)
• Particle system screenshots one, two, and three by David Mafe (2006)
• Particle system screenshot by Lee Rozema (2006)
• Screenshot of funky fountain by John Vipperman (2006)
• AVI animation of particle volcano by Neil Skrypuch (2007)
• Particle fountain animations one and two by Dan McCarney (2011)
• Particle fountain animation by Pawel Jocko (2016). Also at youtube: particle animation
• Pokestop animation by Bradley Kennedy (2016).
• Flocking animation by Joel Jacob (2021).
  • Colour codes: green=exploration, blue=flocking, pink=move away from close agent, yellow=zombie (others must stay 10 unites away from zombies).`
• Fountain animation by Michael Boulet (2023).

Games (projects)

• Creatively Named Chess by Neil Skrypuch (2007):
  • Linux executable (zip) (requires GeForce 6, Radeon X1000 support or better)
  • documentation (pdf)
  • Screen cap 1 , Screen cap 2
• Chess at Brock by Dennis Ideler & Viktor Stremler (2010)
• Video Game Project (animation) by Nikolas Unger (2012). Screen cap 1. Screen cap 2.
• Billiards by Taras Mychaskiw and Dan Lapp (2013)
• Farmer Run by Adam Balint (2015).
  • Description (PDF).
  • Video.
  • Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2. Screenshot 3. Screenshot 4. Screenshot 5.

Ray tracing

• COSC 3P98 ray tracing gallery.
• COSC 4P98 ray tracing gallery.
• Selected 4P98 projects. (Some projects are graphics oriented.)

Miscellaneous

• putter.mp4: Screen cap of golf game by Michael Boulet (W 2023)
  
• 3D Scan of Isaac Brock Statue by Twino Puthiakunnel (2018):
  • One. Two. Three. Four. Five.
  
  
• Fractal Generator by Robert Scott (2018):
  
  • Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot Zoom.
  • Julia. Julia Zoom.
  • Burning Ship. Burning Ship Zoom.
  • Shuriken . Two Fists. Vein.
  
  
• Photoshop Filters (Windows) by Thanos Mantas and Darren Lehoux (2008).
  A paper describing the project: PSFilters.pdf.
• VRML height field generated from photograph by Scott Konkle (320K VRML)
• Coins by Brian Drennan (Softimage, flocking system) :more info here

Past 4th year graphics-related honours projects are described here.

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