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Angel: Interactive Computer Graphics 4E ? Addison-Wesley 2005 Curves and Surfaces in OpenGL Ed Angel Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Media Arts University of New Mexico Objectives Introduce OpenGL evaluators Learn to render polynomial curves and surfaces Discuss quadrics in OpenGL GLUT Quadrics GLU Quadrics What Does OpenGL Support? Evaluators: a general mechanism for working with the Bernstein polynomials Can use any degree polynomials Can use in 1-4 dimensions Automatic generation of normals and texture coordinates NURBS supported in GLU Quadrics GLU a