July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
25h 30m
English
This appendix describes the floating-point formats used for pixel storage in framebuffers and renderbuffers, and texel storage in textures. It has the following major sections:
• “Reduced-Precision Floating-Point Values”
• “16-Bit Floating-Point Values”
• “10- and 11-Bit Unsigned Floating-Point Values”
In addition to the normal 32-bit single-precision floating-point values you normally use when you declare a GLfloat in your application, OpenGL supports reduced-precision floating-point representations for storing data more compactly than its 32-bit representation. In many instances, your floating-point data may not require ...
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