OpenGL SuperBible
by Wright, Richard S; Lipchak, BenjaminEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback w/CD
Pub. Date: 2005-01-01
Publisher(s): Sams
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Summary
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 SuperBiblesimplifies 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.
Author Biography
Richard S. Wright, Jr., has used OpenGL for 10 years and teaches OpenGL programming in the game design degree program at Full Sail in Orlando, Florida Benjamin Lipchak develops OpenGL drivers at ATI Research in Marlboro, Massachusetts
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Classic OpenGL | |
| Introduction to 3D Graphics and OpenGL | p. 11 |
| What's This All About? | p. 11 |
| A Brief History of Computer Graphics | p. 11 |
| A Survey of 3D Effects | p. 15 |
| Common Uses for 3D Graphics | p. 21 |
| Basic 3D Programming Principles | p. 24 |
| Summary | p. 32 |
| Using OpenGL | p. 33 |
| What Is OpenGL? | p. 33 |
| How Does OpenGL Work? | p. 41 |
| OpenGL: An API, Not a Language | p. 44 |
| API Specifics | p. 45 |
| Platform Independence | p. 48 |
| Animation with OpenGL and GLUT | p. 62 |
| The OpenGL State Machine | p. 68 |
| OpenGL Errors | p. 69 |
| Identifying the Version | p. 71 |
| Getting a Clue with glHint | p. 71 |
| Using Extensions | p. 72 |
| Summary | p. 74 |
| Reference | p. 75 |
| Drawing in Space: Geometric Primitives and Buffers | p. 89 |
| Drawing Points in 3D | p. 90 |
| Setting Up a 3D Canvas | p. 90 |
| A 3D Point: The Vertex | p. 92 |
| Draw Something! | p. 93 |
| Setting the Point Size | p. 97 |
| Drawing Lines in 3D | p. 100 |
| Drawing Triangles in 3D | p. 109 |
| Building Solid Objects | p. 112 |
| Other Primitives | p. 122 |
| Other Buffer Tricks | p. 132 |
| Summary | p. 141 |
| Reference | p. 142 |
| Geometric Transformations: The Pipeline | p. 159 |
| Is This the Dreaded Math Chapter? | p. 159 |
| Understanding Transformations | p. 160 |
| The Matrix: Mathematical Currency for 3D Graphics | p. 166 |
| Using Projections | p. 178 |
| Advanced Matrix Manipulation | p. 186 |
| Moving Around in OpenGL Using Cameras and Actors | p. 193 |
| Bringing It All Together | p. 196 |
| Summary | p. 203 |
| Reference | p. 204 |
| Color, Materials, and Lighting: The Basics | p. 211 |
| What Is Color? | p. 212 |
| PC Color Hardware | p. 215 |
| PC Display Modes | p. 216 |
| Using Color in OpenGL | p. 218 |
| Color in the Real World | p. 224 |
| Materials in the Real World | p. 227 |
| Adding Light to a Scene | p. 229 |
| Using a Light Source | p. 234 |
| Lighting Effects | p. 244 |
| Putting It All Together | p. 250 |
| Shadows | p. 258 |
| Summary | p. 265 |
| Reference | p. 266 |
| More on Colors and Materials | p. 275 |
| Blending | p. 275 |
| Fog | p. 286 |
| Accumulation Buffer | p. 289 |
| Other Color Operations | p. 292 |
| Summary | p. 294 |
| Reference | p. 295 |
| Imaging with OpenGL | p. 301 |
| Bitmaps | p. 301 |
| Pixel Packing | p. 309 |
| Pixmaps | p. 310 |
| More Fun with Pixels | p. 320 |
| The Imaging "Subset" | p. 335 |
| Summary | p. 353 |
| Reference | p. 353 |
| Texture Mapping: The Basics | p. 375 |
| Loading Textures | p. 376 |
| Mapping Textures to Geometry | p. 380 |
| A Simple 2D Example | p. 383 |
| Texture Environment | p. 390 |
| Texture Parameters | p. 392 |
| Texture Objects | p. 405 |
| Summary | p. 416 |
| Reference | p. 416 |
| Texture Mapping: Beyond the Basics | p. 435 |
| Secondary Color | p. 435 |
| Anisotropic Filtering | p. 438 |
| Texture Compression | p. 440 |
| Texture Coordinate Generation | p. 443 |
| Multitexture | p. 457 |
| Texture Combiners | p. 465 |
| Summary | p. 467 |
| Reference | p. 467 |
| Curves and Surfaces | p. 477 |
| Built-in Surfaces | p. 478 |
| Bezier Curves and Surfaces | p. 487 |
| NURBS | p. 501 |
| Tessellation | p. 508 |
| Summary | p. 518 |
| Reference | p. 519 |
| It's All About the Pipeline: Faster Geometry Throughput | p. 547 |
| Model Assembly 101 | p. 548 |
| Display Lists | p. 563 |
| Measuring Performance | p. 567 |
| Vertex Arrays | p. 574 |
| Summary | p. 596 |
| Reference | p. 596 |
| Interactive Graphics | p. 611 |
| Selection | p. 612 |
| A Feedback Example | p. 627 |
| Summary | p. 634 |
| Reference | p. 634 |
| OpenGL Everywhere | |
| Wiggle: OpenGL on Windows | p. 643 |
| OpenGL Implementations on Windows | p. 644 |
| Basic Windows Rendering | p. 647 |
| Putting It All Together | p. 658 |
| Windows Palettes | p. 669 |
| OpenGL and Windows Fonts | p. 679 |
| Full-Screen Rendering | p. 685 |
| Multithreaded Rendering | p. 689 |
| OpenGL and WGL Extensions | p. 690 |
| Summary | p. 725 |
| Reference | p. 725 |
| OpenGL on MacOS X | p. 743 |
| The Basics | p. 743 |
| Using the AGL and Carbon APIs | p. 744 |
| Using the Cocoa API | p. 775 |
| Summary | p. 788 |
| Reference | p. 788 |
| GLX: OpenGL on Linux | p. 793 |
| The Basics | p. 793 |
| The OpenGL Extension for the X Window System | p. 797 |
| Creating Bitmap Fonts for OpenGL | p. 812 |
| Offscreen Rendering | p. 825 |
| Using the Motif Library | p. 839 |
| Summary | p. 855 |
| Reference | p. 855 |
| OpenGL: The Next Generation | |
| Buffer Objects: It's Your Video Memory; You Manage It! | p. 865 |
| First, You Need Vertex Arrays | p. 867 |
| Migration to Buffer Objects | p. 872 |
| Loading Data into Buffer Objects | p. 874 |
| A Few Loose Ends | p. 881 |
| Summary | p. 882 |
| Reference | p. 882 |
| Occlusion Queries: Why Do More Work Than You Need To? | p. 891 |
| The World Before Occlusion Queries | p. 892 |
| Bounding Boxes | p. 895 |
| Querying the Query Object | p. 900 |
| Summary | p. 903 |
| Reference | p. 903 |
| Depth Textures and Shadows | p. 907 |
| Be That Light | p. 908 |
| A New Kind of Texture | p. 913 |
| Draw the Shadows First?! | p. 913 |
| And Then There Was Light | p. 914 |
| Two Out of Three Ain't Bad | p. 925 |
| A Few Words About Polygon Offset | p. 926 |
| Summary | p. 927 |
| Reference | p. 928 |
| Programmable Pipeline: This Isn't Your Father's OpenGL | p. 931 |
| Out with the Old | p. 932 |
| In with the New | p. 936 |
| Introduction to Shader Extensions | p. 940 |
| Summary | p. 944 |
| Low-Level Shading: Coding to the Metal | p. 945 |
| Managing Low-Level Shaders | p. 946 |
| Instruction Sets | p. 950 |
| Variable Types | p. 954 |
| Input and Output Modifiers | p. 961 |
| Resource Consumption and Queries | p. 963 |
| Shader Options | p. 966 |
| Summary | p. 967 |
| Reference | p. 967 |
| High-Level Shading: The Real Slim Shader | p. 981 |
| Managing High-Level Shaders | p. 982 |
| Variables | p. 987 |
| Expressions | p. 991 |
| Control Flow | p. 995 |
| Summary | p. 999 |
| Reference | p. 999 |
| Vertex Shading: Do-It-Yourself Transform, Lighting, and Texgen | p. 1015 |
| Getting Your Feet Wet | p. 1015 |
| Diffuse Lighting | p. 1018 |
| Specular Lighting | p. 1021 |
| Improved Specular Lighting | p. 1024 |
| Per-Vertex Fog | p. 1032 |
| Per-Vertex Point Size | p. 1037 |
| Customized Vertex Transformation | p. 1040 |
| Vertex Blending | p. 1043 |
| Summary | p. 1049 |
| Fragment Shading: Empower Your Pixel Processing | p. 1051 |
| Color Conversion | p. 1052 |
| Image Processing | p. 1061 |
| Lighting | p. 1072 |
| Procedural Texture Mapping | p. 1083 |
| Summary | p. 1103 |
| Further Reading | p. 1105 |
| Other Good OpenGL Books | p. 1105 |
| 3D Graphics Books | p. 1105 |
| Web Sites | p. 1106 |
| Glossary | p. 1107 |
| OpenGL ES | p. 1113 |
| Reduction of Data Types | p. 1113 |
| Totally Gone | p. 1114 |
| Greatly Reduced Functionality | p. 1115 |
| Texture Mapping | p. 1115 |
| Raster Operations | p. 1115 |
| Lighting | p. 1115 |
| Conclusion | p. 1116 |
| Index | p. 1117 |
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