OpenGL Distilled

Preface

“NVIDIA’s core strategy is to deliver a breakthrough product every six months, doubling performance with each generation at a rate of essentially Moore’s Law cubed.”   —Jen-Hsun Huang

“Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run—each generally a precondition for the other.”   —Lillian Breslow Rubin

Computer graphics technology, like all computer technology, advances at a staggering rate. In the late 1990s, the first hardware-accelerated 3D graphics cards for consumers signaled the dawn of a new age in 3D graphics software development. Already, these cards are gathering in landfills, superseded by more powerful and advanced hardware.

If you’re new to OpenGL, you probably wish you could dive in and start writing advanced OpenGL ...