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Computer Graphics Through OpenGL®, 4th Edition
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Computer Graphics Through OpenGL®, 4th Edition

by Sumanta Guha
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
702 pages
27h
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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CHAPTER12Texture

We continue to explore methods to attire objects, which we began in the last chapter with color and light. The topic of this chapter is texturing. Textures are a vital part of the wardrobe available to designers. Texturing makes it possible to create lifelike scenes at acceptable costs. It's an enormously important technique in modern-day CG. We'll examine how texturing is implemented in OpenGL and various aspects of texturing in practice. Textures can be combined, as well, with color and light to good effect, as we'll see.

We cover the basics of loading and applying textures in Section 12.1. The so-called texture map, determined by texture coordinates in a texture space, which in turn specifies how a texture is painted onto ...

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