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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
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
984 pages
26h 18m
English
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Figure 1.1 Image from our first OpenGL program: triangles.cpp
Figure 1.2 The OpenGL pipeline
Figure 2.1 Shader-compilation command sequence
Figure 3.1 Vertex layout for a triangle strip
Figure 3.2 Vertex layout for a triangle fan
Figure 3.3 Packing of elements in a BGRA-packed vertex attribute
Figure 3.4 Packing of elements in a RGBA-packed vertex attribute
Figure 3.5 Simple example of drawing commands
Figure 3.6 Using primitive restart to break a triangle strip
Figure 3.7 Two triangle strips forming a cube
Figure 3.8 Result of rendering with instanced vertex attributes
Figure 3.9 Result of instanced rendering using gl_InstanceID
Figure 4.1 Region occupied by a pixel
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