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Today’s OpenGL software program interface allows programmers to provide terribly top quality computer-generated photographs and interactive purposes utilizing 2nd and 3D items, colour photographs, and programmable shaders.
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This is also described in detail in Chapter 2. • The display() routine is what really does the rendering. That is, it calls the OpenGL functions that request something be rendered. Almost all display() routines will do the same three steps as in our simple example here. 1. Clear the window by calling glClear(). 2. Issue the OpenGL calls required to render your object. 3. Request that the image is presented to the screen. • Finally, main() does the heavy lifting of creating a window, calling init(), and finally entering into the event loop.
For example, the ‘‘2’’ in glUniform2f() represents that two data values will be passed into the function (there are other parameters as well, but they are the same across all 24 versions of the glUniform*() * function---In this book, we’ll use glUniform*() * to represent the collection of all glUniform*() functions). Also note the ‘‘f’’ following the ‘‘2’’. This indicates that those two parameters are of type GLfloat. Finally, some versions of the functions’ names end with a ‘‘v’’, which is short for vector, meaning that the two floating-point values (in the case of glUniform2fv()) are passed as a one-dimensional array of GLfloats, instead of two separate parameters.
This is also described in detail in Chapter 2. • The display() routine is what really does the rendering. That is, it calls the OpenGL functions that request something be rendered. Almost all display() routines will do the same three steps as in our simple example here. 1. Clear the window by calling glClear(). 2. Issue the OpenGL calls required to render your object. 3. Request that the image is presented to the screen. • Finally, main() does the heavy lifting of creating a window, calling init(), and finally entering into the event loop.