Roller Coaster

• A roller coaster simulation using OpenGL
• The roller coaster is created with Catmull Rom spline and the track is made to extend out along the path of spline
• The camera is also made to follow along the spline with physically based movement

Note: The code is not disclosed as it was implemented as a part of CSCI 420 Computer Graphics course at the University of Southern California.

Technological Stack

C++ • OpenGL • GLSL

Features

• Spline
  • Used Catmull Rom splines
  • Used Recursive subdivision algorithm for splines
  • Used Sloan method for generating Spline normals
• Phong shading
  • Ambient lighting
  • Diffused lighting
  • Specular lighting
• Physically based dynamic camera movement along the roller coaster
• Phong shading to the ground with Normal maps using Tangent, Binormal, Normal space transformations
• Skybox
• Back face culling
• Anti-aliasing

Features Demo