OpenGL® SuperBible, Sixth Edition, is the definitive programmer’s guide, tutorial, and reference for the world’s leading 3D API for real-time computer graphics, OpenGL 4.3. The best all-around introduction to OpenGL for developers at all levels of experience, it clearly explains both the newest API and indispensable related concepts. You’ll find up-to-date, hands-on guidance for all facets of modern OpenGL development on both desktop and mobile platforms, including transformations, texture mapping, shaders, buffers, geometry management, and much more. Extensively revised, this edition presents many new OpenGL 4.3 features, including compute shaders, texture views, indirect draws, and enhanced API debugging. It has been reorganized to focus more tightly on the API, to cover the entire pipeline earlier, and to help you thoroughly understand the interactions between OpenGL and graphics hardware. Coverage includes <ul>
<li> A practical introduction to the essentials of realtime 3D graphics </li>
<li> Core OpenGL 4.3 techniques for rendering, transformations, and texturing </li>
<li> Foundational math for creating interesting 3D graphics with OpenGL </li>
<li> Writing your own shaders, with examples to get you started </li>
<li> Cross-platform OpenGL, including essential platform-specific API initialization material for Linux, OS X, and Windows </li>
<li> Vertex processing, drawing commands, primitive processing, fragments, and framebuffers </li>
<li> Using compute shaders to harness today’s graphics cards for more than graphics </li>
<li> Monitoring and controlling the OpenGL graphics pipeline </li>
<li> Advanced rendering: light simulation, artistic and non-photo-realistic rendering, and deferred shading </li>
<li> Modern OpenGL debugging and performance optimization </li> </ul>
 Bonus material and sample code are available from the companion Web site, openglsuperbible.com.

OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference

Computers & Technology

Wright, Richard S., Jr.

Sellers, Graham

Haemel, Nicholas

Programming

Addison-Wesley Professional

In a world where everything from how we take pictures to how we get our food is designed to happen as quickly and easily as possible, it can take a lot longer to learn how to make it all work behind the scenes. Theories and concepts can weigh you down when all you really want to know is how to create, design and go. That's where OpenGL SuperBible comes in. Complete with supporting figures and a CD packed with free tools, demos and libraries, OpenGL SuperBible simplifies 3D programming concepts without wasting your time with programming theory. Mac and Windows users will both find this comprehensive hands-on guide helpful as you learn to program for games, visualization applications and multi-platforms. This is the ultimate resource for any new programmer.

Opengl Superbible

Lipchak, Benjamin

Sams.

OpenGL SuperBible, Second Edition is a comprehensive, hands-on guide that provides everything you need to program with the new version of OpenGL. Find the necessary guidance in applying complex concepts-such as drawing in space; points, lines, and polygons; moving around in space; color, lighting, and materials; Raster graphics in OpenGL; texture mapping; 3D modeling and object composition; fog and blending visual effects; curves and surfaces; OpenGL pixel format and rendering context; non-Windows rendering; and more.

Sweet, Michael

Waite Group Pr

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