CPSC 515: Computer Graphics and Computational Geometry

Programming Environment Setup

Installation

1. Download software:

• Visual Studio Code (if not installed already)
  • https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• Anaconda (if not installed already)
  • https://www.anaconda.com/products/distribution
• (For Windows only) PyOpenGL-3.1.6 and PyOpenGL_accelerate-3.1.6
  • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Lr94q2Yfg1NXiNH2ZB9mOMY72GVXAI3?usp=sharing

2. Install software (to default location)

• Visual Studio Code
• Anaconda

3. Create python virtual environment and install PyGame and PyOpenGL

Windows

Create and activate Anaconda virtual environment

• Open Anaconda Promopt Command Window
• type conda create --name cpsc515 python=3.8
• type conda activate cpsc515

Install PyGame

• type pip install pygame

Install PyOpenGL and PyOpenGL_accelerate from downloaded files

• Navigate to the folder where you downloaded PyOpenGL-3.1.6 and PyOpenGL_accelerate-3.1.6
  • For example, cd Downloads\cpsc515
• type pip install PyOpenGL-3.1.6-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl --force-reinstall
• type pip install PyOpenGL_accelerate-3.1.6-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl --force-reinstall

MacOS

Create and activate Anaconda virtual environment

• Open Terminal
• type conda create --name cpsc515 python=3.8
• type conda activate cpsc515

Install PyGame using pip

• type python3 -m pip install -U pygame

Install PyOpenGL and PyOpenGL_accelerate

• type python3 -m pip install PyOpenGL PyOpenGL_accelerate
• Note: if you got errors when running the above command, try one of the following
  • pip install PyOpenGL PyOpenGL_accelerate
  • pip3 install PyOpenGL

4. Install Python Computing Libraries

• type pip install numpy

Run the helloworld code

1. Download code

• Under this github repo, go to Code -> Download Zip
• Alternatively, if you are familiar with git/github, you may also clone the code from: https://github.com/trudiQ/cpsc515-SP25.git (pull only)
  • if you want to save and upload your changes, fork it to your own repo before changing anything

2. Open VScode

• Install Python extention
• Open code folder, e.g.,'cpsc515-SP25'
• Select Interpreter: Python 3.8.x ('cpsc515') # 'cpsc515' is the conda environment you just created

3. Run python file 'helloWorld.py'

• Rotate the object: Hold the left-button of your mouse and drag the mouse (trackpad may also work!)
• Reset the object: Press '0' on your keyboard