SLIDE Code Guidelines

• Hungarian Notation
• The Complete SLIDE Software Pipeline

Hungarian: Identifier Naming Conventions

The SLIDE code is written using a modified version of the Hungarian Notation for identifier names. At first variable names like m_ppcFileNames may be as understandable as Hungarian to you, but once you learn the naming rules it will make reading and debugging SLIDE code very comfortable.

The Complete SLIDE Software Pipeline

The ultimate goal of the SLIDE Graphics Pipeline assignments is to implement a fairly complete graphics pipeline in software. In doing this you will gain an understanding for what OpenGL is doing for you. The rendering pipeline which we implement includes the following capabilities:

• 3D modeling transformations
• Hierarchical axis aligned bounding boxes
• Parallel and perspective projections
• View frustum bounding box culling
• Back face culling
• Homogeneous polygon clipping
• Polygon scan conversion
• Software Z-buffer visibility calculations
• Gouraud shading
• Lighting calculations

Complete SLIDE Software Pipeline Reference gives more information on the over all structure of the SLIDE rendering process.