OpenGL Programming Guide, 9th Edition

Complete Coverage of OpenGL® 4.5—the Latest Version (Includes 4.5, 4.4, SPIR-V, and Extensions)

The latest version of today’s leading worldwide standard for computer graphics, OpenGL 4.5 delivers significant improvements in application efficiency, flexibility, and performance. OpenGL 4.5 is an exceptionally mature and robust platform for programming high-quality computer-generated images and interactive applications using 2D and 3D objects, color images, and shaders.

OpenGL® Programming Guide, Ninth Edition, presents definitive, comprehensive information on OpenGL 4.5, 4.4, SPIR-V, OpenGL extensions, and the OpenGL Shading Language. It will serve you for as long as you write or maintain OpenGL code.

This edition of the best-selling “Red Book” fully integrates shader techniques alongside classic, function-centric approaches, and contains extensive code examples that demonstrate modern techniques. Starting with the fundamentals, its wide-ranging coverage includes drawing, color, pixels, fragments, transformations, textures, framebuffers, light and shadow, and memory techniques for advanced rendering and nongraphical applications. It also offers discussions of all shader stages, including thorough explorations of tessellation, geometric, and compute shaders.

New coverage in this edition includes

• Thorough coverage of OpenGL 4.5 Direct State Access (DSA), which overhauls the OpenGL programming model and how applications access objects
• Deeper discussions and more examples of shader functionality and GPU processing, reflecting industry trends to move functionality onto graphics processors
• Demonstrations and examples of key features based on community feedback and suggestions
• Updated appendixes covering the latest OpenGL libraries, related APIs, functions, variables, formats, and debugging and profiling techniques

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction To Opengl
Chapter 2. Shader Fundamentals
Chapter 3. Drawing With Opengl
Chapter 4. Color, Pixels, And Fragments
Chapter 5. Viewing Transformations, Culling, Clipping, And Feedback
Chapter 6. Textures And Framebuffers
Chapter 7. Light And Shadow
Chapter 8. Procedural Texturing
Chapter 9. Tessellation Shaders
Chapter 10. Geometry Shaders
Chapter 11. Memory
Chapter 12. Compute Shaders
Appendix A. Support Libraries
Appendix B. Opengl Es And Webgl
Appendix C. Built-In Glsl Variables And Functions
Appendix D. State Variables
Appendix E. Homogeneous Coordinates And Transformation Matrices
Appendix F. Floating-Point Formats For Textures, Framebuffers, And Renderbuffers
Appendix G. Debugging And Profiling Opengl
Appendix H. Buffer Object Layouts