CSC 308 Graphics Programming

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CSC 308 Graphics Programming

• Java 3D New Geometry Content
• Information from online tutorial at
• http//java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/java
  3d/

Dr. Paige H. Meeker Computer Science Presbyterian
College, Clinton, SC
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Creating New Content in Java 3D

• There are three major ways to create new
  geometric content using Java3D
• Use the Geometric Utility Classes
• Specify Vertex Coordinates
• Use a Geometry Loader

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Shape3D Objects

• Defines a visual object
• Can only be a leaf of the scene graph
• Does not contain information about shape or color
• Refers to node component objects to obtain
  geometry and appearance

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Node Components

• Contain exact specifications of attributes of
  visual objects

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Geometry Utility Classes

• Box
• Cone
• Cylinder
• Sphere
• Inside the com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry package

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Creating a Yoyo using two cones

• public ConeYoyo()
• yoyoBG new BranchGroup()
• Transform3D rotate new Transform3D()
• Appearance yoyoAppear new Appearance()
• rotate.rotZ(Math.PI/2.0d)
• TransformGroup yoyoTGR1 new
  TransformGroup(rotate)
• translate.set(new Vector3f(0.1f,0.0f,0.0f)
• TransformGroup yoyoTGT1 new
  TransformGroup(translate)
• Cone cone1 new Cone(0.6f, 0.2f)
• cone1.setAppearance(yoyoAppear)
• yoyoBG.addChild(yoyoTGT1)
• yoyoTGT1.addChild(yoyoTGR1)
• yoyoTGR1.addChild(cone1)

translate.set(newVector3f(-0.1f, 0.0f, 0.0f)
TransformGroup yoyoTGT2 new TransformGroup(trans
late) rotate.rotZ(-Math.PI/2.0d)
TransformGroup yoyoTGR2 new TransformGroup(rotat
e) Cone cone2 new Cone(0.6f, 0.2f)
cone2.setAppearance(yoyoAppear)
yoyoBG.addChild(yoyo.TGT2)
yoyoTGT2.addChild(yoyoTGR2)
yoyoTGR2.addChild(cone2) yoyoGB.compile()
// end of ConeYoyo constructor
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Mathematical Classes

• Found in javax.vecmath.
• Each vertex of a visual object made up of up to
  four javax.vecmath objects commonly
• Point (for coordinates)
• Color (for colors)
• Vector (for surface normals)
• TexCoord (for texture coordinates)

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Point

• Point classes represent
• the coordinates of a vertex
• Position of a raster image
• Point light sources
• Spatial location of a sound

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Color

• Color classes represent a color for
• A vertex
• A material property
• Fog
• Other visual object

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Vector

• Vector classes represent
• A surface normal
• Direction of light source
• Direction of sound source

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TexCoord

• Two types used to represent a set of texture
  coordinates at a vertex
• TexCoord2f maintains texture coordinates as an
  (s,t) coordinate pair
• TexCoord3f maintains texture coordinates as an
  (s,t,r) coordinate triple

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Geometry Classes
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GeometryArray subclasses
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Geometry Strip Array
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Appearance Bundle

• Refers to several different NodeComponent
  subclasses called appearance attribute objects
• PointAttributes
• LineAttributes
• PolygonAttributes
• ColoringAttributes
• TransparencyAttributes
• RenderingAttributes
• Material
• TextureAttributes
• Texture
• TexCoordGeneration

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Appearance Bundle Example
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Sharing NodeComponent Objects
Sharing NodeComponent Objects can enhance
performance
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Back Face Culling

• Polygons have two faces. For many visual
  objects, only one needs to be rendered, so the
  renderer can cull the unnecessary faces.
• Front face is the face for which the vertices are
  defined in counter-clockwise order.
• By default, back faces are culled

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Not Culling

• Sometimes backface culling is a problem you can
  turn it off.

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Turning off back face culling