... standard OpenGLES toolkit for small devices. While iOS supports both flavors—version 1.x for the easy way, and version 2.x for those who like to get where the nitty-is-gritty—I mainly cover the former, ... matrices. Fortunately, there are a number of different libraries to mimic these operations. One such library was released by Apple’s introduction of iOS 5. Called the ES Framework API (and described ... Framework API (and described in Apple’s official OpenGLES 2.0 Programming Guide), it’s designed to ease the transition to OpenGLES 2.0. When dealing with OpenGL, this particular matrix is called...
... job, but for now we’re just going to be sticking with basic OpenGL ES. Note Besides OpenGL itself, a popular helper toolkit called GL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) is available. GLUT provides a portable ... devices. Unless otherwise noted, I’ll use OpenGL and OpenGL ES interchangeably. When developing any apps for iOS, it is customary to let Xcode do the heavy lifting at the beginning of any project ... creature with great properties but are reserved for later. GLKit and iOS5 Starting with iOS5 , Apple introduced the GLKit, a collection of objects and helper functions that can make OpenGL a little...
... common programming tasks and partially hides the differences between the two supported OpenGLES versions. This book focuses on OpenGL ES version 2.0 foriOS 5 with GLKit. OpenGL ES defines an ... uses of OpenGLESforiOS devices. Numerous example programs demonstrate graphics programming concepts. The website at http://opengles.cosmicthump.com/ hosts the examples, related articles, ... Combining Cocoa Touch with OpenGL ES This chapter’s first example application, OpenGLES_Ch2_1, provides the starting point for examples in this book. The program configures OpenGLES to render an image...
... data? Pro Core Data foriOS delves into these and other Core Data questions. With explanations, diagrams, code samples, and working explanations, this book will make you a Core Data pro! COMPANION ... two properties: @property (nonatomic, retain) NSManagedObjectContext *managedObjectContext; @property (nonatomic, retain) NSFetchedResultsController➥ *fetchedResultsController; These properties ... request that will retrieve Event entities, as shown in this code: NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init]; NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Event"➥...
... three values. These values are joined together to form faces, which are flat surfaces that look remarkably like triangles. The triangles are then joined together to form objects or pieces of objects. ... in OpenGL makes screens with limited color palettes look somewhat nicer but at the expense of performance of course. glHint() in line 17 is used to nudge OpenGLES to do what it thinks best ... properties but are reserved for later, because OpenGL doesn’t support them directly. Summary In this chapter, you learned the basics of 3D mathematics. First the chapter covered 2D transformations...
... OpenGLES ContextThe information that configures OpenGLES resides in platform-specific software data structures encapsulated within an OpenGLES context. OpenGLES is a state machine, which ... introduced with iOS 5 simplifies many common programming tasks and partially hides the differences between the two supported OpenGLES versions. This book focuses on OpenGL ES version 2.0 foriOS 5 with ... example application, OpenGLES_Ch2_1, provides the starting point for examples in this book. The program configures OpenGLES to render an image onto a Core Animation layer. The iOS Core Animation...
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... array sizes (values per vertex) and data types.present). For type the values BYTE, SHORT, INT, FLOAT, and DOUBLE indicatetypes byte, short, int, float, and double, respectively; and the valuesUNSIGNED ... vertices are transformed and lit, and primitives are clippedto a viewing volume in preparation for the next stage, rasterization. The rasterizerproduces a series of framebuffer addresses and ... provides an efficient means for approximating curve and sur-face geometry by evaluating polynomial functions of input values. The next stageoperates on geometric primitives described by vertices:...