OpenGL Insights

II

Rendering

Te chniques

We can’t possibly imagine a book about OpenGL without rendering, and neither

could the authors of this book.

Ant´onio Ramires Fernandes and Bruno Oliveira provide a use case for the new

OpenGL 4 tessellation pipeline through terrain rendering in their chapter “GPU

Tessellation: We Still Have a LOD of Terrain to Cover,” providing an entirely GPU-

based method for continuous level of detail maintaining a high level of fidelity to the

original mesh.

S´ebastien Hillaire brings us to a parallel universe where rendering is defined by

lines in his chapter “Antialiased Volumetric Lines Using Shader-Based Extrusion.”

He comes back on the