Home | Amazing | Today | Tags | Publishers | Years | Account | Search 
OpenGL Insights

Buy
OpenGL Insights, 9781439893760 (1439893764), AK Peter, 2012

OpenGL is not a single API anymore. OpenGL has involved into a family of APIs, with OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and WebGL being closely related siblings that enable application developers to write and deploy graphics applications on a wide variety of platforms and operating systems. OpenGL has become an ecosystem; 3D graphics is truly everywhere now. OpenGL is the cross platform 3D API for desktop machines and work stations. OpenGL ES is the 3D API for mobile devices, like tablets and cell phones, and embedded platforms from settop boxes to cars. WebGL ties this all together by providing a pervasive 3D API in browsers, based on OpenGL ES, that run on any platform. It doesn’t stop with graphics. Combining the use of OpenGL with a compute API like OpenCL or CUDA enables the creation of amazing visual computing applications on the desktop.

It is Khronos’ job to provide APIs that serve their targeted developers, their markets, and their platforms, while encouraging silicon vendors to innovate underneath the API. Because the power consumption budget, hardware gate budget, and cost budget is larger for desktop GPUs than it is for mobile GPUs, the 3D API reflects this. Hence, OpenGL will generally be the first to expose leading edge functionality, on desktop platforms. The focus for OpenGL ES is to provide maximum functionality with the most optimal hardware and power budget for mobile and embedded devices. WebGL has a unifying focus; the goal for WebGL is to provide the same functionality everywhere, regardless of whether the underlying platform is capable of OpenGL 4.2 or OpenGL ES 2.0. This is fundamental to achieving the browser vision of “write once, deploy everywhere.” It is exciting to see WebGL provide access to the GPU, and therefore hardware accelerated 3D rendering, everywhere. The HTML5 standard provides a rich set of APIs to develop web applications. WebGL is leading the way to do so in a hardware accelerated way within HTML5. This will truly transform the type of web applications that will be available to us to enjoy, precisely becauseWebGL integrates into the HTML5 standard.

Get Real-World Insight from Experienced Professionals in the OpenGL Community
With OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and WebGL, real-time rendering is becoming available everywhere, from AAA games to mobile phones to web pages. Assembling contributions from experienced developers, vendors, researchers, and educators, OpenGL Insights presents real-world techniques for intermediate and advanced OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and WebGL developers.

Go Beyond the Basics
The book thoroughly covers a range of topics, including OpenGL 4.2 and recent extensions. It explains how to optimize for mobile devices, explores the design of WebGL libraries, and discusses OpenGL in the classroom. The contributors also examine asynchronous buffer and texture transfers, performance state tracking, and programmable vertex pulling.

Sharpen Your Skills
Focusing on current and emerging techniques for the OpenGL family of APIs, this book demonstrates the breadth and depth of OpenGL. Readers will gain practical skills to solve problems related to performance, rendering, profiling, framework design, and more.

(HTML tags aren't allowed.)

Home Networking : A Visual Do-It-Yourself Guide
Home Networking : A Visual Do-It-Yourself Guide

The only home networking book you'll ever need

Setting up a home network doesn't need to be difficult. You can use this easy-to-understand reference to set up your home network, secure it, and turn it into an entertainment network. Don't be fooled by other guides-it can be this simple:

Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development: A step-by-step developer's guide
Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development: A step-by-step developer's guide

Zen Cart is a popular open-source PHP/MySQL-based e-commerce solution available under GPL that is designed to put the merchants' and shoppers' requirements first. Not only does Zen Cart offer a very long list of features, but the system is designed with both store owners and web developers in mind. There's no sacrifice of usability or power.

...
Photographing Washington D.C. Digital Field Guide
Photographing Washington D.C. Digital Field Guide

The ideal companion guide for capturing awe-inspiring photos of Washington, D.C.!

Whether using a compact camera or a high-end dSLR, this companion guide provides you with detailed information for taking spectacular shots of some of the most recognizable architecture in the world. Whether you aim to capture memorable photos...


Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009
Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009
Design Your Way from Field to Finish with This Expert Guide to Civil 3D

Understand concepts, create perfect designs, and manage every stage of your projects with this thorough guide to Autodesk's powerful civil engineering software. Authored by experts with close ties to Autodesk and the Civil 3D community, this guide...

Paris (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Paris (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations.

DK Eyewitness Travel
...

Leading in a VUCA World: Integrating Leadership, Discernment and Spirituality (Contributions to Management Science)
Leading in a VUCA World: Integrating Leadership, Discernment and Spirituality (Contributions to Management Science)

This open access book brings together works by specialists from different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book spells out, first of all, what our VUCA...

©2021 LearnIT (support@pdfchm.net) - Privacy Policy