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Application Framework Requirements: We Want To Use GLUT For Window Operations. Handles All Windowing Operations

OpenGL is a computer graphics rendering API that allows generating high-quality color images using primitive geometric shapes and images. It has evolved over time to include newer programming techniques like shaders to more efficiently use GPU resources. Modern OpenGL programs create shader programs, load vertex data into buffer objects, connect data locations to shader variables, and render. OpenGL applications need an interface to a windowing system to render into a window and handle input/output.

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Application Framework Requirements: We Want To Use GLUT For Window Operations. Handles All Windowing Operations

OpenGL is a computer graphics rendering API that allows generating high-quality color images using primitive geometric shapes and images. It has evolved over time to include newer programming techniques like shaders to more efficiently use GPU resources. Modern OpenGL programs create shader programs, load vertex data into buffer objects, connect data locations to shader variables, and render. OpenGL applications need an interface to a windowing system to render into a window and handle input/output.

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What is OpenGL

OpenGL is a computer graphics rendering Application Program Interface (API)


1. Allows you to generate high-quality color images by rendering with primitive geometric shapes
and images.
Newer ways of programming with OpenGL allows for more efficient use of GPU resources. All apps must
make use of shaders for their graphics processing
The Evolution of the OpenGL Pipeline
OpenGL 4.1
1. Includes teesselation-control and tessellation-evaluatoin shaders
OpenGL includes and ES and WebGL version.
ES- is designed for embedded and hand-held devices like cell phones and is based on OpenGL 3.1
WebGL- is essentially a JavaScript implementation of ES 2.0 and runs on most recent browsers
OpenGL Application Development
Modern OpenGL programs essentially do the following steps:
1. Create shader programs
2. Create bffer objects and load data into them
3. connect data locatons with shader variables
4. Render
Application Framework Requirements
OpenGL applications need a place to render into, usually an on-screen window. They need to
communicate with the native windowing system. Each windowing system interface is different. We want
to use GLUT for window operations.
GLUT is a simple, open-source library that works everywhere and handles all windowing operations such
as:
1. Opening windows
2. Input processing
Simplifying working with OpenGL
Different OSs deal with library functions differently based on compiler linkage and runtime libraries.
GLEW- an open source library used to hide the details of the many version of OpenGL that expose
different sets of functions.
Representing Geometric Objects
Verticies are used to represent geometic objects
Vertex- a collection of generic attributes that include:
1. Positional coordinates
2. Colors
3. Texture coordinates
4. Any other data associated with that point in space
Vertex properties have proper storage locations:
1. Position stored in 4 dimensianal homogenous coordinates
2. Vertex data must be stored in vertex buffer objects (VBOs)
3. VBOs must be stored in vertex array objects (VAOs)
OpenGL Geometric Primitives
All primitives are specified by verticies
1. Points
2. Lines
3. Line strips
4. Line Loops
5. Triangles
6. Triangle Strips
7. Triangle Fans
A First Program

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