Dynamically subdividing a plane using the geometry shader
After the vertex shader, the next programmable stage in the OpenGL v3.3 graphics pipeline is the geometry shader. This shader contains inputs from the vertex shader stage. We can either feed these unmodified to the next shader stage or we can add/omit/modify vertices and primitives as desired. One thing that the vertex shaders lack is the availability of the other vertices of the primitive. Geometry shaders have information of all on the vertices of a single primitive.
The advantage with geometry shaders is that we can add/remove primitives on the fly. Moreover it is easier to get all vertices of a single primitive, unlike in the vertex shader, which has information on a single vertex only. ...
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