Subsequently, concepts were introduced in order of perceived conceptual difficulty, leaving mention of complete sections of the OpenGL pipeline to the latter parts of the book. Much of this complexity was hidden behind tools libraries, ‘stock shaders’ or simply glossed over. Another contrast to prior editions is that before, the very first examples actually made use of quite a bit of functionality – complete triangles are drawn, necessitating the initialization of a viewport, a vertex buffer, a minimal vertex shader with inputs and outputs and a fragment shader. In fact, much of the criticism of the 5th edition of the book was not of the quality of the material, but that it spent much of its volume describing the use of the tools library rather than the OpenGL API itself. We propose to do away with this set of libraries in the 6th edition and supply only the minimal amount of code to allow the user to start working with OpenGL. In the past, the book has shielded the reader from the underlying complexities of the hardware and the OpenGL API by using a set of utility functions known as GLTools, written in part for the book. The 6th Edition of the OpenGL SuperBible is to be somewhat of an overhaul of previous editions.
This edition spends a lot less time describing the use of the openGL tools library and more time on the OpenGL API itself.Now part of the official OpenGL series, which will give it more visibility within the OpenGL community.Includes an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad tutorial, with example programs for those devices.Fully revised and updated, with new or re-written coverage on OpenGL 4.X.It has been reorganized to focus more tightly on the API, to cover the entire pipeline earlier, and to help your students thoroughly understand the interactions between OpenGL and graphics hardware.
Extensively revised, this edition presents many new OpenGL 4.3 features, including compute shaders, texture views, indirect multi-draw, and enhanced API debugging. 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. 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.
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