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Mike Bailey and Steve Cunningham, Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice, CRC Press, 2012. (ISBN = 9781568814346)

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Glman

Click here to get to the glman download page

Example Shaders Code

Click here.

Errata

None, so far...

Have you found more? Please send them to Mike Bailey, mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu

Other Good References

• Randi Rost et al, The OpenGL Shading Language, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2009.

• Steve Upstill, The RenderMan Companion, Addison-Wesley, 1990.

• Randima Fernando, GPU Gems, NVIDIA, 2004.

• Matt Pharr, Randima Fernando, GPU Gems 2, NVIDIA, 2005.

• Hubert Nguyen, GPU Gems 3, NVIDIA, 2007.

Other Useful Online Graphics and Shader Information

• RenderMan:
  • Central source for RenderMan information: http://renderman.org/
  • A stained glass shader: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~debug/238/shader.html

• OpenGL:
  • Industry-wide OpenGL Information: http://www.opengl.org
  • The OpenGL 1.1 State machine Diagram http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/version1.1/state.pdf
  • OpenGL Man Pages: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/428/glman.html
  • CodeMonsters's great collection of environment cube maps: http://www.codemonsters.de/home/content.php?show=cubemaps

• The GLUT Library:
  • HTML GLUT Documentation: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/glut/spec3/spec3.html
  • PDF GLUT Documentation: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/glut/glut-3.spec.pdf

• The GLUI Library:
  • OpenGL User Interface (GLUI) Documentation http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui/src/release/glui_manual_v2_beta.pdf
  • General GLUI Information http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui

• GLSL:
  • GLSL Orange Book reference site http://www.3dshaders.com

• SIGGRAPH (The Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics): http://www.siggraph.org

• SIGGRAPH Online Computer Graphics Bibliography Database: http://www.siggraph.org/publications/bibliography

• Game Information:
  • Game Developer: http://www.gamedev.net
  • Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com
  • Select Parks Game Development Information: http://www.selectparks.net

• 3D Models you can download:
  • Level of Detail book support (free): http://lodbook.com/models
  • Amazing 3D Graphics (that's the name of the company) (free) http://www.amazing3d.com/free/free.html
  • Ohio State (free): http://sampl.ece.ohio-state.edu/data/3DDB/Models/index.htm
  • Digimation (costs money): http://www.digimation.com