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OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.5 with SPIR-V, 9th edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (July 8, 2016) © 2017

  • John Kessenich ARM, Inc.
  • Graham Sellers ARM, Inc.
  • Dave Shreiner ARM, Inc.

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OpenGL® Programming Guide, Ninth Edition, provides clear explanations of OpenGL functionality and techniques, including processing geometric objects with vertex, tessellation, and geometry shaders using geometric transformations and viewing matrices; working with pixels and texture maps through fragment shaders; and advanced data techniques using framebuffer objects and compute shaders.
  • Authoritative, trusted OpenGL 4.5 coverage: the latest book in the official Open Graphics Library, written by members of the Khronos OpenGL standards committees
  • Responds to developers' requests with extensive, up-to-date coverage of shaders, the part of the OpenGL spec that has changed the most
  • Contains extensive new text and code, replacing coverage of deprecated features
Previous book only went through OpenGL version 4.3, but, OpenGL has added 4.4, 4.5, SPIR-V, and extensions. This new (and final) update will incorporate all of these changes.
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to OpenGL
  • Chapter 2: Shader Fundamentals
  • Chapter 3: Drawing with OpenGL
  • Chapter 4: Color, Pixels, and Fragments
  • Chapter 5: Viewing Transformations, Culling, Clipping, and Feedback
  • Chapter 6: Textures and Framebuffers
  • Chapter 7: Light and Shadow
  • Chapter 8: Procedural Texturing
  • Chapter 9: Tessellation Shaders
  • Chapter 10: Geometry Shaders
  • Chapter 11: Memory
  • Chapter 12: Compute Shaders
  • Appendix A: Support Libraries
  • Appendix B: OpenGL ES and WebGL  
  • Appendix C: Built-in GLSL Variables and Functions
  • Appendix D: State Variables
  • Appendix E: Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformation Matrices  
  • Appendix F: Floating-Point Formats for Textures, Framebuffers, and Renderbuffers
  • Appendix G: Debugging and Profiling OpenGL
  • Appendix H: Buffer Object Layouts

 

John M. Kessenich, staff software engineer at Google and creator of SPIR-V, has been active in OpenGL and GLSL Khronos standards’ development since 1999. He is the primary editor of the SPIR-V and GLSL specifications, and creates shader compiler tools and translators to promote portability of those standards.

Graham Sellers, AMD Software Architect and Engineering Fellow, is a Khronos API lead and represents AMD at the OpenGL ARB. He has contributed to the core Vulkan and OpenGL specs and extensions, and holds several graphics and image processing patents.

Dave Shreiner is a twenty-five year veteran of the computer graphics industry, where he’s worked almost exclusively with programming interfaces like OpenGL. In addition to having written and taught instructional courses on using computer graphics APIs, he was also the lead author for almost ten years on several Addison-Wesley publications relating to computer graphics.

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