{"id":64,"date":"2010-09-18T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cores2.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2010-11-25T07:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T07:25:01","slug":"introduction-to-3d-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cores2.com\/blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to 3D, part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, right when I was starting to learn how to program, I found a little CAD (Computer Aided Design – basically 3D modeling) application for my programable graphing calculator (a TI-89). The application was horribly slow – it had an “amazing” render speed of a new frame every three<\/em> seconds! If you know your away around it, you could even prevent it from crashing well after a few minutes of light usage<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Even though the application was pretty rough, it got me wondering as a kid: how in the world could I program this? How does 3D actually work? It took me a few weeks of research, coding, some ugly hacks, and some nasty code to finally get my own program with similar functionality up and running. When I finally got\u00c2\u00a0things\u00c2\u00a0working,\u00c2\u00a0the moment I saw my first rotating 3D cube was the moment I decided programming was for me! Solving this little question of 3D graphics was the big step that pushed me into computer science.<\/p>\n

It’s now a dozen years later and I hope to inspire the next generation of programmers with the same\u00c2\u00a0experience, solving the same question: “How do I draw\/program 3D?”<\/p>\n

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I’ve started a three-part tutorial teaching\u00c2\u00a0new or novice level programmers on how to solve this problem. These tutorials will not use any sort of library or wrapper – they go straight to the lowest level when it comes to 3D graphics! These tutorials are not meant to answer the question “how do I draw my 3D character” or “how do I program a 3D game?” These\u00c2\u00a0tutorials\u00c2\u00a0are more fundamental, asking “how does OpenGL or DirectX work?” which I hope inspires programmers and doesn’t scare them away with the complexity of modern graphics libraries.<\/p>\n

The first tutorial is linked here, and will be placed within the root directory of this website.<\/a> Expect future tutorials within a few days.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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