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OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook

You're reading from OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook Build high-quality, real-time 3D graphics with OpenGL 4.6, GLSL 4.6 and C++17

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789342253

Length 472 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

GLSL

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Authors (2):

David A Wolff

David 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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Shadows

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Rendering shadows with shadow maps
Anti-aliasing shadow edges with PCF
Creating soft shadow edges with random sampling
Creating shadows using shadow volumes and the geometry shader

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Authors (2)

Wolff

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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