Hands-On Courses

Hardware
If you want to participate in hands-on courses, you should bring your laptop computer equipped with wireless card to hands-on courses. A limited quantity of laptops is also available from AVW-TELAV, the official SIGGRAPH 2004 computer-rental contractor, at the Speaker Preparation area in West Hall A. The rental fee is $99 per day, and charge approval on a valid credit card is required as a deposit. Rental laptops include Windows and Office XP. Hands-On Course software can be installed in the Speaker Prep area. Computer rentals are available only through AVW-TELAV, not SIGGRAPH 2004.

Software
Use the links below to access software required in hands-on courses.

Course 29: An Interactive Introduction to OpenGL Programming
Downloads: Course 29 tutorials and source code are available from the course organizer's web site.

System requirements: Items that MUST be installed before attending the course:

• Windows: base operating system only (Windows PC running Windows 95 or higher)
• Linux: either Mesa, or proprietary OpenGL drivers from the hardware vendor. (Intel-based system running Linux.)