glimmer

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glimmer

Basic opengl utilities, mostly for personal use.

API Is not set in stone.

Packages

win

The win package deals with GLFW window creation and maintenance.

gli

The gli package contains most of the OpenGL Objects; buffers, VAOs, shaders, etc.

caps

The caps package concerns itself with Capabilities (see glEnable), since most of these are quite seperate from OpenGL Objects.

Examples, in order of complexity

Triangle

• Window creation
• Shader compilation
• Buffers and VAOs
• Drawing and Clearing

Square

• Polling events
• Element buffer and indexed rendering
• Uniforms
• Capabilities (blending)

Texture

• Textures

Perspective

• Perspective matrix
• Depth buffer
• Face culling
• Keyboard interactivity
• Rudimentary camera panning
• Close on escape

Geometry Shader

• Extensions
• Early, highly portable Geometry shader (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)