tool kiet - The Red Book Examples using JOGL

Red Book Editions, OpenGL Versions

1. First edition, OpenGL 1.0

2. Second edition, OpenGL 1.1

3. Third edition, OpenGL 1.2/1.2.1 *

4. Fourth edition, OpenGL 1.3/1.4

5. Fift edition, OpenGL 1.5/2.0

Not sure which OpenGL version you have? Quickly check here. It will tell about

JOGL Binding info
OpenGL Vendor, Version, Driver info
OpenGL Extensions listing

* This is the edition I own.

Difference Between C and Java Examples

No render calls from listeners compare to C examples.
Some data, especially n-dimensional arrays, requires wrapping in another buffer object or a direct buffer.
Swing replaces GLUT's window management API. Also all examples now use GLJPanel
All examples file names are preserved in the Java version; except for double.c, which is renamed to doublebuf.java. to resolve name conflict with double keyword.
xfont.c, an X Window example, is jfont.java for Java.
All color index and NURBS examples are not ported since javax.media.opengl does not support for them.
All examples are doubly buffered and all quits on Esc button.
All examples quit with shut down hook runExit() button.

WebStart OpenGL Examples

I made Java Web Start (JWS) links for all the programs but you may need to set your "file type association" so your browser will download and deploy programs with JWS file extension (.jnlp). As a convenience, I have archived all the JNLP files along with the sources and classes for the examples so you don't have to individually download each examples. You do need to extract the jnlp folder from that archive to get to the individual jnlp file.

1 Intro to OpenGL

Briefs you on the OpenGL graphics system, as an API, what it does, what it do not; provides a couple of examples to show the sequence of steps for a simple rendition and animation.

simple.jnlp

hello.jnlp 1.1

doublebuf.jnlp

2 State Management and Drawing Geometric Objects

How to draw geometric primitives, the basic of managing states, steps in using vertex arrays.

lines.jnlp

polys.jnlp

varray.jnlp 1.1

mvarray.jnlp 1.4

3 Viewing

Describes the view and modeling, projection, and viewport transformations; working with the matrix stacks, using clipping planes, composing transformations, and reverse transformation.

unproject.jnlp 1.1

4 Color

Colors as a 4-tuple RGBA versus color-index, how to draw colored objects, how shading affect a multicolor polygon.

smooth.jnlp

5 Lighting

Describes light models, material colors of objects, how normals affect light on an object, directional lighting, multiple lights, moving light sources.