OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.5 with SPIR-V

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John Kessenich Graham Sellers

OpenGL Programming Guide

The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.5 with SPIR-V

John Kessenich, Graham Sellers, Dave Shreiner

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Addison Wesley
08 July 2016

Graphical & digital media applications; Graphics programming

Series: OpenGL

The latest version of today’s leading worldwide standard for computer graphics, OpenGL 4.5 delivers significant improvements in application efficiency, flexibility, and performance. OpenGL 4.5 is an exceptionally mature and robust platform for programming high-quality computer-generated images and interactive applications using 2D and 3D objects, color images, and shaders.

OpenGL Programming Guide, 9th Edition, presents definitive, comprehensive information on OpenGL 4.5, 4.4, SPIR-V, OpenGL extensions, and the OpenGL Shading Language. It will serve you for as long as you write or maintain OpenGL code.

This edition of the best-selling “Red Book” fully integrates shader techniques alongside classic, function-centric approaches, and contains extensive code examples that demonstrate modern techniques. Starting with the fundamentals, its wide-ranging coverage includes drawing, color, pixels, fragments, transformations, textures, framebuffers, light and shadow, and memory techniques for advanced rendering and nongraphical applications. It also offers discussions of all shader stages, including thorough explorations of tessellation, geometric, and compute shaders.

New coverage in this edition includes

Thorough coverage of OpenGL 4.5 Direct State Access (DSA), which overhauls the OpenGL programming model and how applications access objects

Deeper discussions and more examples of shader functionality and GPU processing, reflecting industry trends to move functionality onto graphics processors

Demonstrations and examples of key features based on community feedback and suggestions

Updated appendixes covering the latest OpenGL libraries, related APIs, functions, variables, formats, and debugging and profiling techniques

By: John Kessenich, Graham Sellers, Dave Shreiner
Imprint: Addison Wesley
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 9th edition
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 1.542kg
ISBN: 9780134495491
ISBN 10: 0134495497
Series: OpenGL
Pages: 976
Publication Date: 08 July 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Introduction to OpenGL Chapter 2: Shader Fundamentals Chapter 3: Drawing with OpenGL Chapter 4: Color, Pixels, and Fragments Chapter 5: Viewing Transformations, Culling, Clipping, and Feedback Chapter 6: Textures and Framebuffers Chapter 7: Light and Shadow Chapter 8: Procedural Texturing Chapter 9: Tessellation Shaders Chapter 10: Geometry Shaders Chapter 11: Memory Chapter 12: Compute Shaders Appendix A: Support Libraries Appendix B: OpenGL ES and WebGL Appendix C: Built-in GLSL Variables and Functions Appendix D: State Variables Appendix E: Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformation Matrices Appendix F: Floating-Point Formats for Textures, Framebuffers, and Renderbuffers Appendix G: Debugging and Profiling OpenGL Appendix H: Buffer Object Layouts

John M. Kessenich, staff software engineer at Google and creator of SPIR-V, has been active in OpenGL and GLSL Khronos standards’ development since 1999. He is the primary editor of the SPIR-V and GLSL specifications, and creates shader compiler tools and translators to promote portability of those standards. Graham Sellers, AMD Software Architect and Engineering Fellow, is a Khronos API lead and represents AMD at the OpenGL ARB. He has contributed to the core Vulkan and OpenGL specs and extensions, and holds several graphics and image processing patents. Dave Shreiner is a twenty-five year veteran of the computer graphics industry, where he’s worked almost exclusively with programming interfaces like OpenGL. In addition to having written and taught instructional courses on using computer graphics APIs, he was also the lead author for almost ten years on several Addison-Wesley publications relating to computer graphics.

Reviews for OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.5 with SPIR-V

Praise for previous editions of OpenGL (R) Programming Guide Wow! This book is basically one-stop shopping for OpenGL information. It is the kind of book that I will be reaching for a lot. Thanks to Dave, Graham, John, and Bill for an amazing effort. -Mike Bailey, professor, Oregon State University The most recent Red Book parallels the grand tradition of OpenGL; continuous evolution towards ever-greater power and efficiency. The eighth edition contains up-to-the minute information about the latest standard and new features, along with a solid grounding in modern OpenGL techniques that will work anywhere. The Red Book continues to be an essential reference for all new employees at my simulation company. What else can be said about this essential guide? I laughed, I cried, it was much better than Cats-I'll read it again and again. -Bob Kuehne, president, Blue Newt Software OpenGL has undergone enormous changes since its inception twenty years ago. This new edition is your practical guide to using the OpenGL of today. Modern OpenGL is centered on the use of shaders, and this edition of the Programming Guide jumps right in, with shaders covered in depth in Chapter 2. It continues in later chapters with even more specifics on everything from texturing to compute shaders. No matter how well you know it or how long you've been doing it, if you are going to write an OpenGL program, you want to have a copy of the OpenGL (R) Programming Guide handy. -Marc Olano, associate professor, UMBC If you are looking for the definitive guide to programming with the very latest version of OpenGL, look no further. The authors of this book have been deeply involved in the creation of OpenGL 4.3, and everything you need to know about the cutting edge of this industry-leading API is laid out here in a clear, logical, and insightful manner. -Neil Trevett, president, Khronos Group