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Parminder Singh
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Parminder Singh

Parminder Singh is a computation graphics engineer with Blackmagic Design, Singapore. He has been working and developing graphic applications in the fields of network simulations, geo-modeling, navigation, automotive, infotainment systems, image processing, and post-production for the past decade. His research interests include GPU programming for scalable graphics and compute applications, porting, and performance optimization techniques. He is a Vulkan, Metal and OpenGL ES trainer and has also authored OpenGL ES 3.0 Cookbook, Packt. His hobbies include traveling, light cooking, and spending quality time with his baby girl. Feel free to connect Parminder at https://www.linkedin.com/in/parmindersingh18 or you can reach him at http://openglescookbook.com.
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Understanding the Vulkan buffer resource type


A buffer resource represents a contiguous array of data in a linear fashion. Buffer resources are commonly stored attribute data information, such as vertex coordinates, texture coordinates, associated colors, and more. The buffer resource in Vulkan is represented by the VkBuffer object, unlike the image resource (VkImage), which is represented in the view form (image view, VkImageView), the buffer resources can be used directly as the source of vertex data or accessed by shaders through descriptors. They need to be converted explicitly into a buffer view (VkBufferView) to allow the shaders to use buffer data contents in the formatted form. In this section, we will make use of the buffer resource directly using the API commands.

First, this section will discuss the buffer resource concepts covering the API specifications to use them in the implementation. Next, we will use these APIs and implement the buffer resources to store the geometry data...

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Parminder Singh

Parminder Singh is a computation graphics engineer with Blackmagic Design, Singapore. He has been working and developing graphic applications in the fields of network simulations, geo-modeling, navigation, automotive, infotainment systems, image processing, and post-production for the past decade. His research interests include GPU programming for scalable graphics and compute applications, porting, and performance optimization techniques. He is a Vulkan, Metal and OpenGL ES trainer and has also authored OpenGL ES 3.0 Cookbook, Packt. His hobbies include traveling, light cooking, and spending quality time with his baby girl. Feel free to connect Parminder at https://www.linkedin.com/in/parmindersingh18 or you can reach him at http://openglescookbook.com.
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