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    The code defines functions for drawing basic shapes using OpenGL. It initializes the window and OpenGL context. The display function clears the screen and draws two quadrilaterals with different colors. The main function initializes GLUT, creates a window, registers display callback and enters main loop.

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    The code defines functions for drawing basic shapes using OpenGL. It initializes the window and OpenGL context. The display function clears the screen and draws two quadrilaterals with different colors. The main function initializes GLUT, creates a window, registers display callback and enters main loop.

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    The code defines functions for drawing basic shapes using OpenGL. It initializes the window and OpenGL context. The display function clears the screen and draws two quadrilaterals with different colors. The main function initializes GLUT, creates a window, registers display callback and enters main loop.

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    The code defines functions for drawing basic shapes using OpenGL. It initializes the window and OpenGL context. The display function clears the screen and draws two quadrilaterals with different colors. The main function initializes GLUT, creates a window, registers display callback and enters main loop.

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    MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY

    SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS

    DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY for (BIT)

    BY: WAMBUA MOSES MUTESA

    Reg. No: BIT/2018/85478

    COMPUTER GRAPHICS CAT 30 marks


    a) Discuss liquid crystal displays and plasma displays stating their advantages and
    disadvantages [8 marks]
    Liquid crystal display
    LCD panel monitor technology mostly used in monitors and TVs. This technology is also
    used in cellphones, laptps, an tablets. The base of LCD monitors is a tiny liquid crystals
    that each pixel is made of. They are placed between two sheets of glass.
    When voltage is appied the crystals change their directions. LCD monitors use less enegy
    which makes them advantageous because the crystals do not emit but block the light.
    Advantages
    1. They use less energy.
    2. Best colour reproduction.
    3. Widest viewing angle.
    4. They have better performance than plasma
    Disadvantages.

    1. They are more expensive.


    2. The aspect of ratio and resolution are fixed.
    3. They are more fragile than CRTs.
    Plasma display.

    A plasma display panel or PDP is a display technology characterized by the flat panel orientation
    similar to LED panels and different from CRT displays. The technology is explicitly based on the
    use of plasma or electrically charged ionized gases o produce colors.

    Advantages

    1. Better than CRT display.


    2. More compact than CRT.
    3. Better contrast ratios.
    4. Less visible motion blurs.
    Disadvantages

    1. Flickering effects.
    2. Higher power consumption.
    3. More expensive.
    4. Altitude considerations.
    b) Discuss raster scan displays [2 marks]
    Are most commonly type of graphics monitor which employs CRT. It is based on
    television technology. In raster scan system electron beam sweeps across the screen, from
    top to bottom covering one row at a time. A pattern of illuminated pattern of spots is
    created by turning beam intensity on and off as it moves across each row.a memory area
    called refresh buffer or frame buffer stores picture definition. This memory holds
    intensity value of all screen points.
    c) Discuss Camera control collision detection [5 marks]
    The use of collision detection to infer multi-camera calibration quality.
    Optical motion capture systems are widely used in sports and medicine. The
    performance of these systems depends on, amongst other factors, the quality
    of the camera calibration process
    d) Study the code below and explain what happens at each line of code [15 marks]
    1. #include <windows’>
    It’s a header file used to access the win32 SPI functions and it makes it
    easier for the user to use the inbuilt functionality
    2. #include <GL/glut.h>
    This is a library of utilities for openGL programs, which primarily perform
    system-level I/O with the host operating systems.Helps in monitoring
    keybord and mouse input.

    4. glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);


    }
    5. void display() {
    6. glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
    clears the window
    7. glBegin (GL_QUADS);
    glColor3f (1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
    glVertex2f (-0.8f, 0.1f);
    glVertex2f (-0.2f, 0.1f);
    glVertex2f (-0.2f, 0.7f);
    glVertex2f (-0.8f, 0.7f);

    glColor3f (0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);


    glVertex2f (-0.7f, -0.6f);
    glVertex2f (-0.1f, -0.6f);
    glVertex2f (-0.1f, 0.0f);
    glVertex2f (-0.7f, 0.0f);
    This define the object to be drawn - in this example, a polygon with four vertices.
    The polygon's "corners" are defined by the glVertex3f () commands.
    8. Glen ();
    This marks the end of the polygon
    9. int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    int argc is count of number of arguments provided through command line
    arguments and char **argv is 2 dimensional array of real arguments provided
    through command line.
    10. glutInit(&argc, argv);
    glutInit is used to initialize the GLUT library. Usage. void glutInit(int *argcp,
    char **argv); argcp. A pointer to the program's unmodified argc variable from
    main.
    11. glutCreateWindow("Vertex, Primitive & Color");
    Creates a window with the given title.
    12. glutInitWindowSize(320, 320);
    Specifies the initial window width and height, in pixels.
    13. glutInitWindowPosition(50, 50);
    Positions the top-left corner of the initial window at (x, y). The coordinates (x, y),
    in term of pixels, is measured in window coordinates
    14. glutDisplayFunc(display);
    Registers the callback function (or event handler) for handling window-paint
    event.
    15. initGL();
    We call the initGL() to perform all the one-time initialization operations. In this
    example, we set the clearing (background) color once, and use it repeatably in
    the display() function. glutMainLoop();
    return 0;

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