OpenGL Programming Guide

Second Edition

Front Matter

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Table of Contents

1.

About This Guide
What This Guide Contains
What's New in This Edition
What You Should Know Before Reading This Guide
How to Obtain the Sample Code
Errata
Style Conventions

Acknowledgments

2. Introduction to OpenGL
What Is OpenGL?
A Smidgen of OpenGL Code
OpenGL Command Syntax
OpenGL as a State Machine
OpenGL Rendering Pipeline
OpenGL-Related Libraries
Animation

3. State Management and Drawing Geometric Objects
A Drawing Survival Kit
Describing Points, Lines, and Polygons
Basic State Management
Displaying Points, Lines, and Polygons
Normal Vectors
Vertex Arrays
Attribute Groups
Some Hints for Building Polygonal Models of Surfaces

4. Viewing
Overview: The Camera Analogy
Viewing and Modeling Transformations
Projection Transformations
Viewport Transformation
Troubleshooting Transformations
Manipulating the Matrix Stacks
Additional Clipping Planes
Examples of Composing Several Transformations
Reversing or Mimicking Transformations

5. Color
Color Perception
Computer Color
RGBA versus Color-Index Mode
Specifying a Color and a Shading Model

6. Lighting
A Hidden-Surface Removal Survival Kit
Real-World and OpenGL Lighting
A Simple Example: Rendering a Lit Sphere
Creating Light Sources
Selecting a Lighting Model
Defining Material Properties
The Mathematics of Lighting
Lighting in Color-Index Mode

7. Blending, Antialiasing, Fog, and Polygon Offset
Blending
Antialiasing
Fog
Polygon Offset

8. Display Lists
Why Use Display Lists?
An Example of Using a Display List
Display-List Design Philosophy
Creating and Executing a Display List
Executing Multiple Display Lists
Managing State Variables with Display Lists

9. Drawing Pixels, Bitmaps, Fonts, and Images
Bitmaps and Fonts
Images
Imaging Pipeline
Reading and Drawing Pixel Rectangles
Tips for Improving Pixel Drawing Rates

10. Texture Mapping
An Overview and an Example
Specifying the Texture
Filtering
Texture Objects
Texture Functions
Assigning Texture Coordinates
Automatic Texture-Coordinate Generation
Advanced Features

11. The Framebuffer
Buffers and Their Uses
Testing and Operating on Fragments
The Accumulation Buffer

12. Tessellators and Quadrics
Polygon Tessellation
Quadrics: Rendering Spheres, Cylinders, and Disks

13. Evaluators and NURBS
Prerequisites
Evaluators
The GLU NURBS Interface

14. Selection and Feedback
Selection
Feedback

15. Now That You Know
Error Handling
Which Version Am I Using?
Extensions to the Standard
Cheesy Translucency
An Easy Fade Effect
Object Selection Using the Back Buffer
Cheap Image Transformation
Displaying Layers
Antialiased Characters
Drawing Round Points
Interpolating Images
Making Decals
Drawing Filled, Concave Polygons Using the Stencil Buffer
Finding Interference Regions
Shadows
Hidden-Line Removal
Texture-Mapping Applications
Drawing Depth-Buffered Images
Dirichlet Domains
Life in the Stencil Buffer
Alternative Uses for glDrawPixels() and glCopyPixels()

A. Order of Operations
Overview
Geometric Operations
Pixel Operations
Fragment Operations
Odds and Ends

B. State Variables
The Query Commands
OpenGL State Variables

C. OpenGL and Window Systems
GLX: OpenGL Extension for the X Window System
AGL: OpenGL Extension to the Apple Macintosh
PGL: OpenGL Extension for IBM OS/2 Warp
WGL: OpenGL Extension for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95

D. Basics of GLUT: The OpenGL Utility Toolkit
Initializing and Creating a Window
Handling Window and Input Events
Loading the Color Map
Initializing and Drawing Three-Dimensional Objects
Managing a Background Process
Running the Program

E. Calculating Normal Vectors
Finding Normals for Analytic Surfaces
Finding Normals from Polygonal Data

F. Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformation Matrices
Homogeneous Coordinates
Transformation Matrices

G. Programming Tips
OpenGL Correctness Tips
OpenGL Performance Tips
GLX Tips

H. OpenGL Invariance

I. Color Plates
Plate 1
Plate 2
Plate 3
Plate 4
Plate 5
Plate 6
Plate 7
Plate 8
Plate 9
Plate 10
Plate 11
Plate 12
Plate 13
Plate 14
Plate 15
Plate 16
Plate 17
Plate 18
Plate 19
Plate 20
Plate 21
Plate 22
Plate 23
Plate 24
Plate 25
Plate 26
Plate 27
Plate 28
Plate 29 and 30
Plate 31

Glossary

Index