OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference

By Liu Ka-Shek

A comprehensive resource for OpenGL programming for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95. This reference starts with beginning topics like 3D drawing and coordinate transformation, and then advances into more complex topics and special effects like blending and surfaces based on analytical formulas. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321498828
• ISBN13: 9780321498823
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 1205 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

If you are looking to learn OpenGL on Windows, then this is the book for you. Each chapter gives an excellent description of the concepts learned. The authors writing is clear and concise. The book uses GLUT for most of the programs. This is great as you can spend the time learning on program in 3d as oppossed to OS specific code. GLUT takes about 10 minutes to learn(Window,keyboard,and mouse functions), but you can do A LOT...

A worthy intro to OpenGL

It's hard not to write a review of an OpenGL book without comparing it to the Red Book, so I'll go ahead and do just that. Overall, I think the Superbible is every bit as useful as the Red Book, but in different ways. Although the Red Book has more detailed coverage, the Superbible focuses more on the practical side, covering the things you'll use and how you'll use them. Where the Red Book remains entirely platform-independent,...

Excellentfor creating graphics applications!

I bought the book as an amerature to the OpenGL API. This book helped me to learn OpenGL as well as integrate it with Windows 32 bit applications. The book was very simple to use. The CD that comes with it is very helpful for looking at example code. This book is worth getting if you are serious about writing graphics programs in Windows.

OpenGL Superbible

I have just received my copy of the OpenGL Superbible and it is fantastic! To think I almost did not purchase this book based on some of the readers comments on this selection! The included WaiteGL.OCX file is worth the price of the book alone! If you are worth your salt as a programmer and want a quick entre' into the fabulous world of graphics programming I whole heartedly endorse this book! Thank you Richard Wright...

An effective, practical, and enjoyable intro to OpenGL

As a relative newcomer to the field of 3d graphics programming, I was naturally concerned about finding an introductory text which would provide a complete introduction to OpenGL. My experience teaching myself "C" (admittedly some time ago) has instilled in me a sort of paranoia about supposedly "introductory" texts assuming unreasonable levels of knowledge on the part of the reader. The OpenGL Superbible turned out to...