Developing Graphics Frameworks 26 Geometry Boxes

Summary

Create another extension of the Learn about the OpenGL functions used to send shader code to the GPU, compile shader programs, link shaders to create a ... Create the base Material class, which defines the overall appearance of Learn about scene graphs: a tree data structure that organizes the 3D objects in a scene. Then learn about the main classes that ... Based on student and viewer feedback, in order to increase cross-platform compatibility, a few changes are introduced in this ... Learn how to create vertex array objects to manage the associations between vertex buffer data and attribute ("in") variables in a ... Learn about how surfaces of three-dimensional objects can be represented by a parametric function: the x, y, z coordinates are ... Create axes and grids that help provide a sense of orientation and scale within a scene. Learn how to use the recently added functionality from the Input class to change values of Uniform variables and move Create the Object3D class, which corresponds to a node in the scene graph, stores a model matrix, and references to its parent ... Learn about why uniform variables are useful, the OpenGL functions needed to upload uniform data to the GPU, and create a ... Learn how two-dimensional vector topics generalize to three dimensions: vector addition, scalar multiplication, standard basis ...