
24. Exploring Mobile vs. Desktop OpenGL Performance 347
24.4.2 Full-Screen Effects
Full-screen postprocessing effects are a major tool for visual effects in modern games
and graphics applications and have been an area of innovation in recent years. Com-
mon applications of full-screen postprocessing in games are motion blur, depth of
field, screen-space ambient occlusion, light bloom, color filtering, and tone-mapping.
Other applications such as photo-editing tools may use full-screen or large-area ef-
fects for composition, blending, warping, and filtering.
Full-screen postprocessing is a powerful tool to create effects, but it is an easy
way to consume ...