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OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1, 7/E
Dave ShreinerARM, Inc.
The Khronos OpenGL ARB Working Group

ISBN-10: 0321552628
ISBN-13:  9780321552624

Publisher:  Addison-Wesley Professional
Copyright:  2010
Format:  Paper; 936 pp
Published:  07/21/2009
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For years, graphics programmers have relied on a single authoritative book to master OpenGL programming: The OpenGL Programming Guide, also known as "the Red Book." With the release of Version 3.0, developers must master a radically new and more powerful version of OpenGL: one that breaks binary and source code compatibility and requires fundamentally different coding techniques. For graphics programmers, it's almost like starting over: the new interface largely invalidates some fifteen years of accumulated knowledge and techniques.


Features

  • A significant revision of the definitive programming guide to the Open Graphics Library, the defacto standard for all developers creating 3d applications. This is an update which will cover the radically new 3.0 release.
  • For years, graphics programmers have relied on a single authoritative book to master OpenGL programming: The OpenGL Programming Guide, also known as "the Red Book."
  • The Author, Dave Shreiner has been working with OpenGL for almost two decades, and more recently with OpenGL ES. During that time, he authored the first commercial training course on OpenGL while working at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems (SGI), and has worked as an author on the OpenGL Programming Guide.

 


New To This Edition

With roughly 70% new text and code examples, The OpenGL Programming Guide, Seventh Edition has been systematically revamped to fully cover the brand-new OpenGL 3.0. OpenGL Series editor Dave Shreiner begins with a high-level introduction to OpenGL and its new interface standard. He introduces the new OpenGL programming model, demonstrating its extensive new use of buffers and objects. Next, Shreiner carefully explains shaders, which play a greatly expanded role in OpenGL 3.0. This edition's fully-updated, example-rich coverage also includes: new shader-integrated approaches to viewing and transformations; modern approaches to texture mapping; framebuffer operations; OpenGL lighting and shadow techniques; and much more.


Table of Contents

Figures xxi

Tables xxv

Examples xxix

About This Guide xxxv

Acknowledgments xlv

 

Chapter 1: Introduction to OpenGL 1

What Is OpenGL? 2

A Smidgen of OpenGL Code 5

OpenGL Command Syntax 7

OpenGL as a State Machine 9

OpenGL Rendering Pipeline 10

OpenGL-Related Libraries 14

Animation 22

OpenGL and Its Deprecation Mechanism 27

 

Chapter 2: State Management and Drawing Geometric Objects 31

A Drawing Survival Kit 34

Describing Points, Lines, and Polygons 42

Basic State Management 53

Displaying Points, Lines, and Polygons 55

Normal Vectors 68

Vertex Arrays 70

Buffer Objects 91

Vertex-Array Objects 104

Attribute Groups 110

Some Hints for Building Polygonal Models of Surfaces 113

 

Chapter 3: Viewing 123

Overview: The Camera Analogy 126

Viewing and Modeling Transformations 137

Projection Transformations 152

Viewport Transformation 158

Troubleshooting Transformations 162

Manipulating the Matrix Stacks 164

Additional Clipping Planes 168

Examples of Composing Several Transformations 172

Reversing or Mimicking Transformations 179

 

Chapter 4: Color 185

Color Perception 186

Computer Color 188

RGBA versus Color-Index Mode 190

Specifying a Color and a Shading Model 196

 

Chapter 5: Lighting 203

A Hidden-Surface Removal Survival Kit 205

Real-World and OpenGL Lighting 207

A Simple Example: Rendering a Lit Sphere 210

Creating Light Sources 214

Selecting a Lighting Model 227

Defining Material Properties 231

The Mathematics of Lighting 240

Lighting in Color-Index Mode 246

 

Chapter 6: Blending, Antialiasing, Fog, and Polygon Offset 249

Blending 251

Antialiasing 267

Fog 280

Point Parameters 291

Polygon Offset 293

 

Chapter 7: Display Lists 297

Why Use Display Lists? 298

An Example of Using a Display List 299

Display List Design Philosophy 302

Creating and Executing a Display List 305

Executing Multiple Display Lists 312

Managing State Variables with Display Lists 318

 

Chapter 8: Drawing Pixels, Bitmaps, Fonts, and Images 321

Bitmaps and Fonts 323

Images 333

Imaging Pipeline 343

Reading and Drawing Pixel Rectangles 359

Using Buffer Objects with Pixel Rectangle Data 362

Tips for Improving Pixel Drawing Rates 366

Imaging Subset 367

 

Chapter 9: Texture Mapping 389

An Overview and an Example 395

Specifying the Texture 400

Filtering 434

Texture Objects 437

Texture Functions 444

Assigning Texture Coordinates 448

Automatic Texture-Coordinate Generation 457

Multitexturing 467

Texture Combiner Functions 472

Applying Secondary Color after Texturing 478

Point Sprites 479

The Texture Matrix Stack 481

Depth Textures 483

 

Chapter 10: The Framebuffer 489

Buffers and Their Uses 492

Testing and Operating on Fragments 501

The Accumulation Buffer 518

Framebuffer Objects 526

 

Chapter 11: Tessellators and Quadrics 541

Polygon Tessellation 542

Quadrics: Rendering Spheres, Cylinders, and Disks 559

 

Chapter 12: Evaluators and NURBS 569

Prerequisites 571

Evaluators 572

The GLU NURBS Interface 586

 

Chapter 13: Selection and Feedback 605

Selection 606

Feedback 627

 

Chapter 14: Now That You Know 635

Error Handling 637

Which Version Am I Using? 639

Extensions to the Standard 641

Cheesy Translucency 644

An Easy Fade Effect 645

Object Selection Using the Back Buffer 646

Cheap Image Transformation 647

Displaying Layers 649

Antialiased Characters 650

Drawing Round Points 653

Interpolating Images 653

Making Decals 653

Drawing Filled, Concave Polygons Using the Stencil Buffer 655

Finding Interference Regions 656

Shadows 658

Hidden-Line Removal 659

Texture Mapping Applications 661

Drawing Depth-Buffered Images 662

Dirichlet Domains 662

Life in the Stencil Buffer 664

Alternative Uses for glDrawPixels() and glCopyPixels() 665

 

Chapter 15: The OpenGL Shading Language 667

The OpenGL Graphics Pipeline and Programmable Shading 668

Using GLSL Shaders 672

The OpenGL Shading Language 681

Creating Shaders with GLSL 681

Uniform Blocks 692

Accessing Texture Maps in Shaders 707

Shader Preprocessor 711

Extension Processing in Shaders 714

Vertex Shader Specifics 715

Transform Feedback 722

Fragment Shader Specifics 727

 

Appendix A: Basics of GLUT: The OpenGL Utility Toolkit 731

Initializing and Creating a Window 732

Handling Window and Input Events 733

Loading the Color Map 735

Initializing and Drawing Three-Dimensional Objects 735

Managing a Background Process 736

Running the Program 737

 

Appendix B: State Variables 739

The Query Commands 740

OpenGL State Variables 743

 

Appendix C: Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformation Matrices 803

Homogeneous Coordinates 804

Transformation Matrices 805

 

Appendix D: OpenGL and Window Systems 809

Accessing New OpenGL Functions 810

GLX: OpenGL Extension for the X Window System 812

AGL: OpenGL Extensions for the Apple Macintosh 819

WGL: OpenGL Extension for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP 824

 

Glossary 831

Index 857

 

The following appendices are available online at http://www.opengl-redbook.com/appendices/.

 

Appendix E: Order of Operations

Appendix F: Programming Tips

Appendix G: OpenGL Invariance

Appendix H: Calculating Normal Vectors

Appendix I: Built-In OpenGL Shading Language Variables and Functions

Appendix J: Floating-Point Formats for Textures, Framebuffers, and Renderbuffers

Appendix K: RGTC Compressed Texture Format

Appendix L: std140 Uniform Buffer Layout


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  • OpenGL® Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL®, Version 2.1, 6/E
    OpenGL Architecture Review Board, Shreiner, Woo, Neider & Davis
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Dave Shreiner, director of graphics technology at ARM, Inc., was a longtime member of the core OpenGL team at SGI. He authored the first commercial OpenGL training course and has been developing computer graphics applications for more than two decades. Dave regularly presents at SIGGRAPH and other conferences worldwide. He is coauthor of the OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2009) and the OpenGL® Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley, 2004), and is series editor for Addison-Wesley’s OpenGL Series.


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OpenGL is a powerful software interface used to produce high-quality, computer-generated images and interactive applications using 2D and 3D objects, bitmaps, and color images.

 

The OpenGL®Programming Guide, Seventh Edition, provides definitive and comprehensive information on OpenGL and the OpenGL Utility Library. The previous edition covered OpenGL through Version 2.1. This seventh edition of the best-selling “red book” describes the latest features of OpenGL Versions 3.0 and 3.1. You will find clear explanations of OpenGL functionality and many basic computer graphics techniques, such as building and rendering 3D models; interactively viewing objects from different perspective points; and using shading, lighting, and texturing effects for greater realism. In addition, this book provides in-depth coverage of advanced techniques, including texture mapping, antialiasing, fog and atmospheric effects, NURBS, image processing, and more. The text also explores other key topics such as enhancing performance, OpenGL extensions, and cross-platform techniques.

 

This seventh edition has been updated to include the newest features of OpenGL Versions 3.0 and 3.1, including

 

  • Using framebuffer objects for off-screen rendering and texture updates
  • Examples of the various new buffer object types, including uniform-buffer objects, transform feedback buffers, and vertex array objects
  • Using texture arrays to increase performance when using numerous textures
  • Efficient rendering using primitive restart and conditional rendering
  • Discussion of OpenGL’s deprecation mechanism and how to verify your programs for future versions of OpenGL

 

This edition continues the discussion of the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) and explains the mechanics of using this language to create complex graphics effects and boost the computational power of OpenGL. The OpenGL Technical Library provides tutorial and reference books for OpenGL. The Library enables programmers to gain a practical understanding of OpenGL and shows them how to unlock its full potential. Originally developed by SGI, the Library continues to evolve under the auspices of the Khronos OpenGL ARB Working Group, an industry consortium responsible for guiding the evolution of OpenGL and related technologies.

 

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