OpenGL SuperBible : The Complete Guide to OpenGL Programming for Windows NT and Windows 95

by Wright, Richard S., Jr.; Sweet, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781571691644
• ISBN10: 1571691642
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Pearson P T R

Summary

Offering guidance in applying the complex concepts and details, "OpenGL SuperBible" serves both as a reference and as a tutorial manual that covers everything the readers needs to implement the new version of Open GL on the Windows platform. CD contains source code and recompiled examples from the book.

Author Biography

Richard S. Wright, Jr. teaches 3D graphics programming at Full Sail in Orlando, Florida, and is a former Real 3D representative to the OpenGL Architecture Review Board. Richard is also the founder and President of StarStone Software Systems, Inc., and creator of Eye of the Storm, an online, interactive, 3D hurricane and storm tracking system. Michael Sweet is co-founder of Easy Software Products, a small software firm specializing in printing, Internet, and computer graphics technologies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Nuts and Bolts--an Introduction to the OpenGL API
3D Graphics Fundamentals	p. 9
What's This All About?	p. 9
A Brief History of Computer Graphics	p. 9
A Survey of 3D Effects	p. 13
Common Uses for 3D Graphics	p. 17
Basic 3D Programming Principles	p. 21
Summary	p. 28
What is OpenGL?	p. 29
Evolution of a Standard	p. 30
How Does OpenGL Work?	p. 32
Summary	p. 35
Using OpenGL	p. 37
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 37
OpenGL: An API, Not a Language	p. 37
API Specifics	p. 40
Platform Independence	p. 43
Your First Program	p. 45
Drawing Shapes with OpenGL	p. 51
Animation with OpenGL and GLUT	p. 58
Finally Some 3D!	p. 63
Summary	p. 64
Reference Section	p. 65
Drawing in Space: Lines, Points, and Polygons	p. 79
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 79
Drawing Points in 3D	p. 80
Setting Up a 3D Canvas	p. 80
A 3D Point: the Vertex	p. 82
Draw Something!	p. 83
Setting the Point Size	p. 87
Drawing Lines in 3D	p. 90
Drawing Triangles in 3D	p. 98
Building Solid Objects	p. 102
Other Primitives	p. 111
Summary	p. 120
Reference Section	p. 120
Moving Around in Space: Coordinate Transformations	p. 135
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 135
Is This the Dreaded Math Chapter?	p. 136
Understanding Transformations	p. 136
Matrix Munching	p. 142
Using Projections	p. 154
Advanced Matrix Manipulation	p. 161
Summary	p. 163
Reference Section	p. 163
Color, Lighting, and Materials	p. 173
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 173
What Is Color?	p. 174
PC Color Hardware	p. 177
PC Display Modes	p. 178
Using Color in OpenGL	p. 180
Color in the Real World	p. 186
Materials in the Real World	p. 188
Adding Light to a Scene	p. 191
Using a Light Source	p. 195
Lighting Effects	p. 206
Putting It All Together	p. 211
Shadows	p. 219
Summary	p. 225
Reference Section	p. 225
Meat and Potatoes--the Staples of Opengl Rendering
Raster Graphics in Opengl	p. 241
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 241
Drawing Bitmaps	p. 242
Bitmap Fonts	p. 245
Bitmaps with Color--Pixmaps	p. 250
A Windows .BMP File Viewer	p. 252
Drawing Images with Transparency	p. 256
Drawing Indexed Images	p. 258
Panning an Image	p. 259
Reading Images	p. 259
Copying Images	p. 262
Writing .BMP Files	p. 262
Summary	p. 263
Reference Section	p. 264
Texture Mapping	p. 273
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 273
The Basics of Texture Mapping	p. 274
Defining Texture Images	p. 275
Putting It All Together--A 1D Texture Example	p. 279
A 2D Texturing Example	p. 281
Using More Than One Texture Image	p. 281
A Terrain Viewing Program	p. 286
Automatically Generating Texture Coordinates	p. 289
Mipmapped Textures	p. 290
Lighting with Textures	p. 294
Replacing Texture Image Data	p. 297
3D Texturing	p. 298
Summary	p. 299
Reference Section	p. 300
3d Modeling and Object Composition	p. 309
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 309
Defining the Task	p. 310
Constructing a Model, One Piece at a Time	p. 313
Preprocessing Your Models	p. 325
Summary	p. 341
Reference Section	p. 341
Visual Effects: Blending and Fog	p. 359
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 359
Blending	p. 359
Fog	p. 365
Back to the Terrain Viewing Program	p. 367
Summary	p. 368
Reference Section	p. 369
Buffers: Not Just for Animation	p. 371
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 371
What Are Buffers?	p. 372
Configuring Buffers Using WIN32 Functions	p. 375
Configuring Buffers Using GLUT Functions	p. 378
Picking Only the Buffers You Need	p. 378
The Color Buffer	p. 379
The Depth Buffer	p. 380
The Stencil Buffer	p. 386
The Accumulation Buffer	p. 389
Summary	p. 393
Reference Section	p. 393
Beyond Lines and Triangles	p. 397
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 397
Quadrics	p. 398
Drawing a Pencil	p. 402
Complex Polygons	p. 404
Combining Quadrics and Polygon Tessellators	p. 411
Tessellating Height Fields (Grids)	p. 415
Improving the Terrain Viewing Program	p. 416
Summary	p. 417
Reference Section	p. 418
Curves and Surfaces: What the #%@!and Are Nurbs?	p. 429
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 429
Curves and Surfaces	p. 430
Evaluators	p. 432
Nurbs	p. 441
Summary	p. 448
Reference Section	p. 448
Interactive Graphics	p. 471
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 471
Selection	p. 472
Feedback	p. 483
A Feedback Example	p. 485
Summary	p. 492
Reference Section	p. 492
Imaging With Opengl	p. 503
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 503
Basics of the OpenGL Imaging Extension	p. 503
The Color Matrix	p. 504
Convolution (Filtering)	p. 508
Histogram Equalization	p. 509
Summary	p. 510
Reference Section	p. 510
Common Opengl Extensions	p. 515
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 515
What Extensions Are Available?	p. 515
When Should I Use an Extension?	p. 516
Checking for Extension Availability	p. 516
The Swap Hint Extension	p. 518
The Vertex Culling Extension	p. 520
The Multi-Texture Extension	p. 523
Summary	p. 525
Reference Section	p. 525
Opengl for Windows: Opengl + Win32 = Wiggle
The Opengl Pixel Format and Rendering Context	p. 531
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 531
OpenGL Implementations on Windows	p. 532
Basic Windows Rendering	p. 534
Putting It All Together	p. 545
Windows Palettes	p. 555
OpenGL and Windows Fonts	p. 565
Full-Screen Rendering	p. 568
Multithreaded Rendering	p. 572
Summary	p. 573
Reference Section	p. 574
Non-Windowed Rendering	p. 595
The Basics of Offscreen Rendering	p. 595
Saving to a BMP File	p. 598
Printing Images	p. 601
Metafiles	p. 602
Summary	p. 604
Real-Time Programming with Opengl	p. 605
What you'll learn in this chapter	p. 605
How Fast Is Fast?	p. 606
Windows Animation Techniques	p. 608
Putting the "Real" in Real-Time	p. 625
Scene Graph Basics	p. 635
Other Real-Time Techniques	p. 642
Summary	p. 643
Appendixes
Summary of Opengl Updates	p. 647
December 1995	p. 647
March 1998	p. 648
Further Reading	p. 649
Windows Programming Books	p. 649
OpenGL Books	p. 649
3D Graphics Books	p. 649
The Web	p. 650
The Opengl State Machine	p. 651
Basic OpenGL State Functions	p. 651
Saving and Restoring States	p. 652
Reference Section	p. 657
Glossary	p. 661
Index	p. 665
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