July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
25h 30m
English
Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, you’ll be able to do the following:
• Create and use geometry shaders to further process geometry within the OpenGL pipeline.
• Create additional geometric primitives using a geometry shader.
• Use geometry shaders in combination with transform feedback to generate multiple streams of geometric data.
• Render to multiple viewports in a single rendering pass.
In this chapter, we introduce another vertex processing stage: the geometry shader. The geometry shader sits logically right before primitive assembly and fragment shading. It receives as its input complete primitives as a collection of vertices, and these inputs are represented as arrays. Typically, the inputs are ...
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