OpenGL Development Cookbook. OpenGL brings an added dimension to your graphics by utilizing the remarkable power of modern GPUs. This straight-talking

OpenGL Development Cookbook. OpenGL brings an added dimension to your graphics by utilizing the remarkable power of modern GPUs. This straight-talking - Opis

OpenGL is the leading cross-language, multi-platform API used by masses of modern games and applications in a vast array of different sectors. Developing graphics with OpenGL lets you harness the increasing power of GPUs and really take your visuals to the next level.OpenGL Development Cookbook is your guide to graphical programming techniques to implement 3D mesh formats and skeletal animation to learn and understand OpenGL.OpenGL Development Cookbook introduces you to the modern OpenGL. Beginning with vertex-based deformations, common mesh formats, and skeletal animation with GPU skinning, and going on to demonstrate different shader stages in the graphics pipeline. OpenGL Development Cookbook focuses on providing you with practical examples on complex topics, such as variance shadow mapping, GPU-based paths, and ray tracing. By the end you will be familiar with the latest advanced GPU-based volume rendering techniques. Spis treści: 1. Introduction to Modern OpenGL2. 3D Viewing and Object Picking System Development3. Offscreen Rendering and Environment Mapping4. Lights and Shadows5. Working with Mesh Model formats and Simple Particle Systems6. GPU based Global illumination and Alpha Blending Techniques7. GPU based Volume Rendering Techniques8. Skeletal and Physically Based Simulation on the GPU O autorze: Muhammad Mobeen Movania received his PhD degree in Advanced Computer Graphics and Visualization from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He completed his Bachelor of Science Honors (BCS(H)) in Computer Sciences from Iqra University, Karachi. Before (...) więcej joining NTU, he was a junior graphics programmer at Data Communication and Control (DCC) Pvt. Ltd. Karachi, Pakistan. He was working on DirectX and OpenGL API for producing real-time interactive tactical simulators and dynamic integrated training simulators. His research interests include volumetric rendering, GPU technologies, real-time shadows, digital geometry processing, and hierarchical geometric data structures. He is also the author of an OpenCloth project which implements various cloth simulation algorithms in OpenGL. His blog lists a lot of useful graphics tips and tricks. When not involved with computer graphics, he composes music and is an avid squash player. He is currently working at a research institute in Singapore. mniej