Thursday, March 19, 2009

open gl is not so bad


So here are the two assignments.  the curve came out pretty easily but the coloring on the house is not so great,  all of the walls are there but from the angle that the camera is at you cannot see them.  I need to just paint both sides of the wall.

1.  The thing that I find the most interesting about the openGL stuff is how some of the process that the processor would normally do are now being done by the graphics card which is probably under utilized by most computer users.  I also thought that it was pretty cool that by pawning off some of the responsibilities onto the graphics hardware the machines are able to use less process and save battery overall, even if it is not that much.  I also think the it is cool that processing and python are open to utilizing some of the open gl stuff as well.


2. Some of the things are new in this program are the glEnable and frontface that say they are used for hidden surface removal, the way the polygons face and the way some calculations are done.  Also the glLight functions are new to this project.

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