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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Examples
This section includes a number of example use cases for compute shaders. As compute shaders are designed to execute arbitrary work with very little fixed-function plumbing to tie them to specific functionality, they are very flexible and very powerful. As such, the best way to see them in action is to work through a few examples in order to see their application in real-world scenarios.