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OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, Second Edition Acquiring the skills of OpenGL Shading Language is so much easier with this cookbook. You'll be creating graphics rather than learning theory, gaining a high level of capability in modern 3D programming along the way.

Product type Hardcover

Published in Sep 2018

Last Updated in Feb 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789342253

Length 472 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

GLSL

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Authors (2):

Wolff

David A Wolff

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with GLSL FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with GLSL Programs

3. The Basics of GLSL Shaders

4. Lighting and Shading

5. Using Textures

6. Image Processing and Screen Space Techniques

7. Using Geometry and Tessellation Shaders

8. Shadows

9. Using Noise in Shaders

10. Particle Systems and Animation

11. Using Compute Shaders

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Getting Started with GLSL

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Using a loading library to access the latest OpenGL functionality
Using GLM for mathematics
Determining the GLSL and OpenGL version
Compiling a shader
Linking a shader program
Saving and loading a shader binary
Loading a SPIR-V shader program

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Authors (2)

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Wolff

David Wolff is a professor in the computer science department at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU). He received a PhD in Physics and an MS in computer science from Oregon State University. He has been teaching computer graphics to undergraduates at PLU for over 17 years, using OpenGL.

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