Lab 3

The Lorenz Attractor and zooming, reshaping, and text rendering.

• Slides for this lab

• The source code

New in this code

• glutIdleFunc
• glutReshapeFunc
• glutSpecialFunc
• glut font rendering: glutBitmapCharacter, glutStrokeCharacter
• gluOrtho2D: orthographic perspective
• glViewport

Try

• to get zooming to work with either glScale or by changing gluOrtho2D in appropriate places
• start or extend your assignment code with the help of the code provided in this example

Interesting Links

• Colour Scales: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~haim/ColorCenter/
• Glut Version 3: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/glut/spec3/spec3.html
• The OpenGL programming guide: http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/