OpenGL Programming

Welcome to the OpenGL Programming book. OpenGL is an API used for drawing 3D graphics. OpenGL is not a programming language; an OpenGL application is typically written in C or C++. What OpenGL does allow you to do is draw attractive, realistic 3D graphics with minimal effort. The API is typically used to interact with a GPU, to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering.

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Also see the GLSL Programming book.

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[edit] Introduction

1. About this book
2. History and Evolution of OpenGL

[edit] Setting Up OpenGL

• Installation on GNU/Linux
• Installation on Macintosh
• Installation on Windows with Code::Blocks
• Installation for Android NDK development
  • with a GLUT-like wrapper to follow the exercises
• Installation for iPhone development
• Installing GLUT

[edit] Modern OpenGL

"Modern" OpenGL is about OpenGL 2.1+, OpenGL ES 2.0+ and WebGL, with a programmable pipeline and shaders.

[edit] The basics arc

01		Tutorial 01: newcomer's introduction, first dive into shaders	02		Tutorial 02: adding more robustness to our code, transparency
03		Tutorial 03: passing information to shaders: attributes, varying and uniforms	04		Tutorial 04: transformation matrices: positioning and rotating
05		Tutorial 05: adding the 3rd dimension: a cube, plus a camera	06		Tutorial 06: textures: displaying a wooden cube
07		OBJ format: loading Suzanne the monkey from Blender	08		Navigation: navigate in 3D space and manipulate objects in our model viewer

Tutorial_drafts: ideas and notes for upcoming tutorials

[edit] The lighting arc

This series of tutorials is a C++ port of the GLSL wikibook Basic Lighting tutorials.

01		Diffuse Reflection: about per-vertex diffuse lighting and multiple light sources of different kinds	02		Specular Highlights: about per-vertex lighting
03		Two-Sided Surfaces (about two-sided per-vertex lighting)	04		Smooth Specular Highlights (about per-pixel lighting)
05		Two-Sided Smooth Surfaces (about two-sided per-pixel lighting)	06		Multiple Lights (about for-loops for handling multiple light sources)

This series of tutorials is a C++ port of the GLSL wikibook Basic Texturing tutorials.

01		Textured Spheres: about texturing a sphere	02		Lighting Textured Surfaces: about textures for diffuse lighting
03		Glossy Textures: about gloss mapping	04		Transparent Textures: about using alpha textures for discarding fragments, alpha testing, and blending
05		Layers of Textures: about multitexturing

This series of tutorials is a C++ port of the GLSL wikibook tutorials about Textures in 3D.

01		Lighting of Bumpy Surfaces: about normal mapping	02		Projection of Bumpy Surfaces: about parallax mapping
03		Cookies: about projective texture mapping for shaping light	04		Light Attenuation: about texture mapping for light attenuation and lookup tables in general
05		Projectors: about projective texture mapping for projectors

There are more tutorials to port at the GLSL wikibook!

[edit] The scientific arc

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