Chapter 15. Combining OpenCL and OpenGL
This chapter covers
- The functions needed to configure OpenGL-OpenCL interoperability
- A method for coding OpenGL-OpenCL applications
- Rendering animated models with OpenGL and OpenCL
One of OpenCL’s greatest strengths is that it can accelerate applications based on OpenGL, the cross-platform API for 3-D rendering. The end goal of an OpenGL application is to compute two-dimensional arrays of numbers that correspond to pixel colors. These pixels must be computed quickly—on a high-resolution display, the application may need to compute hundreds of thousands of colors for each new frame.
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The content of this chapter assumes a basic familiarity with OpenGL 3.3 or above and shader development.
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