SWD360 - Advanced OpenGL

Course Description

Short Course | 18 hours | 1.8 CEUs

OpenGL is a powerful software interface used to produce high-quality, computer- generated images and interactive applications using 2D and 3D objects and color bitmaps and images. This course is a continuation of Introduction to OpenGL.

Course Outline

OpenGL Setup
- Setup and History
- Absolute Linking and Relative Linking
- GLFW
- GLEW
- GLM
OpenGL Shading Language
- OpenGL Shading Language
- Interface Blocks
- Compiling Shaders
- Shader Subroutines
- Separate Shader Objects
Drawing with OpenGL
- OpenGL Graphics Primitives
- Data in OpenGL Bufffers
- Vertex Specifications
- OpenGL Drawing Commands
Color, Pixels and Fragments o Color Theory
- Buffers
- Color and OpenGL
- Testing and Operating on Fragments
- Multisampling
- Pre-Primitive Antialiasing
- Reading and Copying Pixel Data
Textures and Frame Buffers
- Basic Texture Types
- Creating and Initializing Textures
- Specifying Texture Data
- Texture Format
- Compressed Textures
- Using Textures
- Complex Texture Types
- Texture Views
Tessellation Shaders
- Tessellation Shaders and Patches
- Tessellation Control Shaders
- Tessellation Evaluation Shaders
Geometry Shaders
- Creating a Geometry Shader
- Geometry Shader Inputs and Outputs
- Producing Primitives
- Geometry Shader Instancing
- Multiple Viewports and Layered Rendering
Viewing Transformations, Culling, Clipping and Feedback
- Viewing
- User Transformations
- OpenGL Transformations
- Transform Feedback
Filtering
- Linear Filtering
- Using and Generating Mipmaps
- Calculating the Mipmap Level
- Mipmap Level-of-Detail Control
- Texture Lookup Functions
- Bindless Textures
- Sparse Textures
- Point Sprites
- Framebuffer Objects
- Rendering to Texture Maps
Light and Shadow
- Classic Lighting Model
- Shadow Mapping
Procedural Texturing
- Procedural Sharing Summary
- Bump Mapping
- Antialiasing Procedural Textures
- Noise
Memory
- Using Textures for Generic Data Storage
- Shader Storage Buffer Objects
- Atomic Operations and Synchronization
Compute Shaders
- Overview
- Workgroups and Dispatch
- Communication and Synchronization
Support Libraries

Learner Outcomes

Students will learn how to write OpenGL applications using modern shader-based OpenGL implementations, implement modern rendering techniques, debug and profile OpenGL applications and maximize the processing power of both the GPU and the CPU.