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OpenGL Development Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenGL Development Cookbook OpenGL brings an added dimension to your graphics by utilizing the remarkable power of modern GPUs. This straight-talking cookbook is perfect for intermediate C++ programmers who want to exploit the full potential of OpenGL.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849695046
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Muhammad Mobeen Movania Muhammad Mobeen Movania
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Modern OpenGL FREE CHAPTER 2. 3D Viewing and Object Picking 3. Offscreen Rendering and Environment Mapping 4. Lights and Shadows 5. Mesh Model Formats and Particle Systems 6. GPU-based Alpha Blending and Global Illumination 7. GPU-based Volume Rendering Techniques 8. Skeletal and Physically-based Simulation on the GPU Index

Implementing pseudo-isosurface rendering in single-pass GPU ray casting


We will now implement pseudo-isosurface rendering in single-pass GPU ray casting. While much of the setup is the same as for the single-pass GPU ray casting, the difference will be in the compositing step in the ray casting fragment shader. In this shader, we will try to find the given isosurface. If it is actually found, we estimate the normal at the sampling point to carry out the lighting calculation for the isosurface.

In the pseudocode, the pseudo-isosurface rendering in single-pass ray casting can be elaborated as follows:

Get camera ray direction and ray position 
Get the ray step amount
For each sample along the ray direction
    Get sample value at current ray position as sample1
    Get another sample value at (ray position+step) as sample2
    If (sample1-isoValue) < 0 and (sample2-isoValue)>0 
       Refine the intersection position using Bisection method
       Get the gradient at the refined position...
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