Michaël Defferrard, Pierre Fechting, Vu Hiep Doan.

An OpenGL application which generates a terrain geometry and renders the 3D scene on the GPU. A camera, pictorially illustrated in the global view, follows a configurable Bézier path through the scene. It was realized as a semester project for an introductory lesson in computer graphics at EPFL.

Featured techniques:

• Procedural terrain generated by hybrid multi-fractal with Perlin noise function.
• Material texturing based on terrain height and gradient.
• Seamless cube-mapped skybox.
• Self-shadowing using shadow mapping.
• Water reflection, refraction and depth effects.
• Free flying and FPS exploration modes.
• Runtime configurable Bézier camera path: 2 Béziers, 8 control points.
• Animated pictorial camera along the path.
• Particles system: 8000 particles which position and speed are controlled in parallel by the GPU.
• Two (interchangeable) simultaneous views: global and camera.
• Object oriented programing.

• group19: main source code
• docs/reports: reports explaining what has been done
• common: set of provided CMake and headers
• external: provided external libraries
• textures, skybox, duck: texture and vertex ressources

Dependencies:

• OpenGL: profile version >= 3
• GLFW: API version 2
• GLEW

cd build
cmake ..
make
./group19/group19

• Stage 1 (terrain generation) report
• Stage 2 (rendering) report
• Stage 3 (interaction & animation) report