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3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook

By : Sergey Kosarevsky, Viktor Latypov
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Book Image

3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook

4 (2)
By: Sergey Kosarevsky, Viktor Latypov

Overview of this book

OpenGL is a popular cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) used for rendering 2D and 3D graphics, while Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics API that targets high-performance applications. 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook helps you learn about modern graphics rendering algorithms and techniques using C++ programming along with OpenGL and Vulkan APIs. The book begins by setting up a development environment and takes you through the steps involved in building a 3D rendering engine with the help of basic, yet self-contained, recipes. Each recipe will enable you to incrementally add features to your codebase and show you how to integrate different 3D rendering techniques and algorithms into one large project. You'll also get to grips with core techniques such as physically based rendering, image-based rendering, and CPU/GPU geometry culling, to name a few. As you advance, you'll explore common techniques and solutions that will help you to work with large datasets for 2D and 3D rendering. Finally, you'll discover how to apply optimization techniques to build performant and feature-rich graphics applications. By the end of this 3D rendering book, you'll have gained an improved understanding of best practices used in modern graphics APIs and be able to create fast and versatile 3D rendering frameworks.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "After setting the project name, this macro uses the GLOB_RECURSE function to collect all source and header files into the SRC_FILES and HEADER_FILES variables."

A block of code is set as follows:

macro(SETUP_GROUPS src_files)
  foreach(FILE ${src_files})
    get_filename_component(PARENT_DIR "${FILE}" PATH)

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

macro(SETUP_APP projname)
  set(PROJ_NAME ${projname})
  project(${PROJ_NAME})

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

sudo apt-get update

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Choose Custom Installation and make sure that the pip box is checked."

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