Appendix B: OpenGL Online Resources

This book and the excerpts on this blog are from 2004. Obviously, the API has changed a bit since then. I provide the older information and book in the hope that it will be useful to some hobbyists.

Purchase Printed Book Learning Java Bindings for OpenGL (JOGL)

Table of Contents: Learning Java Bindings for OpenGL (JOGL)

This book describes JOGL which was approved as JSR 231 and will become the javax.media.opengl package.

-T. Gene Davis

This list of links is no longer maintained, but may give a starting point for searching for JOGL resources.

Various Web Resources

These links are all to C or C++ tutorials on OpenGL, but if you squint really hard it will look just like Java. So don’t let any C like gibberish put you out.

OpenGL Home Page: The Industry’s Foundation for High Performance Graphics

http://www.opengl.org/

OpenGL Survival Kit Tutorial by Nicole Deflaux Terry

http://www.cs.tulane.edu/www/Terry/OpenGL/Introduction.html

“Game Tutorials: Game Programming with Personality, From Start to Finish”

http://www.gametutorials.com/Tutorials/OpenGL/OpenGL_Pg1.htm

Light House 3D: OpenGL Tutorials

http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/tutorials.shtml

A Quick OpenGL Tutorial by Will Weisser

http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~wyh/opengl/OpenGL_quick_tour.html

Help stamp out GL_PROJECTION abuse

http://www.sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/projection_abuse.html