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GLSL Essentials

You're reading from   GLSL Essentials If you're involved in graphics programming, you need to know about shaders, and this is the book to do it. A hands-on guide to the OpenGL Shading Language, it walks you through the absolute basics to advanced techniques.

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Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849698009
Length 116 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jacobo Rodríguez is a real-time computer graphics programmer living in the north of Spain. He has working experience with computer graphics, digital photogrammetry, computer vision, and video game development. Jacobo has worked for cutting-edge technology companies such as Metria Digital and Blit Software, and has also worked as an entrepreneur and freelancer for a variety of clients of platforms such as PC, iOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation Portable. Jacobo has been working and learning at the same time for the last 20 years in the computer graphics field in roles ranging from junior programmer to project manager, passing through R&D director as well. Jacobo has always been very committed to the computer graphics community, having released for free the OpenGL Shader Designer: the first application in the world (even before NVIDIA with FX Composer or ATI with RenderMonkey) designed to visually develop and program GLSL shaders, as well as some OpenGL programming tutorials, all forming part of the Official OpenGL SDK.
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GLSL Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. The Graphics Rendering Pipeline FREE CHAPTER 2. GLSL Basics 3. Vertex Shaders 4. Fragment Shaders 5. Geometry Shaders 6. Compute Shaders Index

Summary

In this chapter, we learnt that there exists other worlds beyond the CPUs: GPUs and parallel computation. We also learnt how the internals of a graphics rendering pipeline are, which parts is it composed of, and a brief understanding of their functions.

In the next chapter, we will face the details of the language that controls the pipeline; a bit of grammar, and a bit of syntax.

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Jacobo Rodríguez is a real-time computer graphics programmer living in the north of Spain. He has working experience with computer graphics, digital photogrammetry, computer vision, and video game development. Jacobo has worked for cutting-edge technology companies such as Metria Digital and Blit Software, and has also worked as an entrepreneur and freelancer for a variety of clients of platforms such as PC, iOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation Portable. Jacobo has been working and learning at the same time for the last 20 years in the computer graphics field in roles ranging from junior programmer to project manager, passing through R&D director as well. Jacobo has always been very committed to the computer graphics community, having released for free the OpenGL Shader Designer: the first application in the world (even before NVIDIA with FX Composer or ATI with RenderMonkey) designed to visually develop and program GLSL shaders, as well as some OpenGL programming tutorials, all forming part of the Official OpenGL SDK.
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