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Appendix G. Additional Sources of Information

OpenGL

Web sites

• www.opengl.org – Everything OpenGL! An excellent source of OpenGL news, examples, tutorials and general information.
  
  
• www.opengl.org/About/About.html - A high-level overview of OpenGL.
  
  
• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/docs/man_pages/hardcopy/GL/html/gl/ - OpenGL API Reference.
  
  
• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/docs/man_pages/hardcopy/GL/html/glu/ - OpenGL Utility Library API Reference.

Newsgroups

• comp.graphics.api.opengl - A newsgroup dedicated to OpenGL programming issues.

Books

• Woo, Mason, Jackie Neider, and Tom Davis, OpenGL Programming Guide, Addison-Wesley. A "must have" for the OpenGL programmer. It’s often referred to as the "Red Book" (the OpenGL equivalent of Smalltalk’s "Blue Book").
  
  
• Sweet, Michael and Richard S. Wright Jr., OpenGL SuperBible 2^nd Edition. Waite Group Press. A good introduction to 3D graphics programming and OpenGL. MS Windows-oriented.
  
  
• A list of available books on OpenGL can be found at www.opengl.org/Documentation/Books.html.

Smalltalk

Web sites

• www.object-arts.com – The home page for Dolphin Smalltalk.
  
  
• www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?index;ring=smalltalk – List of sites on the Smalltalk WebRing.

Newsgroups

• comp.lang.smalltalk.dolphin – Dolphin Smalltalk newsgroup.
  
  
• comp.lang.smalltalk – Smalltalk newsgroup covering all dialects.

Books

See the following web sites for lists of books on Smalltalk

• www.goodstart.com/books.shtml
  
  
• www.whysmalltalk.com/learning.htm

Web sites

• http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math – "Ask Dr. Math". An excellent source of info presented in question/answer format.
  
  
• www.flipcode.com – Lots of good information on various aspects of graphics and game development.
  
  
• www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/algorithms-faq – FAQ on computer graphics.
  
  
• www.gdmag.com – Home page for Game Developer magazine.

Newsgroups

• comp.graphics.algorithms – API independent issues related to computer graphics.
  
  
• alt.math – Math newsgroup

Books

• Moller, Tomas and Eric Haines, Real-Time Rendering, A K Peters.