March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
984 pages
26h 18m
English
book
OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition
by Dave Shreiner, Graham Sellers, John M. Kessenich, Bill M. Licea-Kane
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Geometry Shading
The next shader stage—geometry shading—allows additional processing of individual geometric primitives, including creating new ones, before rasterization. This shading stage is also optional, but very powerful as we’ll see in Chapter 10.