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Document Number: 007-3560-002

Front Matter

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Table of Contents

New Features in This Guide

About This Guide

What Is OpenGL Performer?
Why Use OpenGL Performer?
What You Should Know Before Reading This Guide
What This Guide Contains
Internet and Hard Copy Reading for the OpenGL Performer Series
Reader Comments

I. Overview of OpenGL Performer

1. Getting Acquainted with OpenGL Performer

Installing the Software
Exploring the OpenGL Performer Sample Scenes with perfly
Loading Databases into OpenGL Performer
Going Beyond Visual Simulation

2. OpenGL Performer Basics

OpenGL Performer Applications
Library Structure of OpenGL Performer
Overview of the OpenGL Performer Library Structure
X and IRIS IM
Porting from IRIS GL to OpenGL
Survey of Visual Simulation Techniques

II. Programming With OpenGL Performer

3. OpenGL Performer Programming Interface

General Naming Conventions
Class API
Base Clas ses

4. Introduction to OpenGL Performer Concepts

Scene-to-Screen Path
Parts of a Performer Application
Inputting and Reading User Events

5. Creating a Display with pfChannel

Creating and Configuring a pfChannel
Initializing the pfChannel View
Channel Callbacks
Using Multiple Channels
Multiple Pipes

6. Creating Scene Graphs

What Is a Node?
Scene Graph Nodes
Creating a Scene Graph
Loading a Scene Graph
Saving a Scene Graph
Scene Graph Traversals
Customizing Performer Traversals

7. Creating Geometry with pfGeoSet

pfGeoSet Overview
Creating a pfGeoSet
Attributes of pfGeoSet Primitives
Placing Geometry in a Scene Graph
Creating Common Geometric Objects

8. Specifying the Appearance of Geometry with pfState and pfGeoState

Setting the Graphics State
Using Textures
Specifying the Material
Specifying Lighting

9. Placing Geometry in a Scene

World Space and Object Space
Transformation Nodes
Using pfFCS
Using DCS Nodes
Using SCS Nodes

10. Controlling Frame Rate

Double Buffering
Specifying a Target Frame Rate
Frame Synchronization
Adjusting the Frame Rate Automatically

11. Multiprocessing

OpenGL Performer Stages
Benefits of Multiprocessing
Shared Memory
Printing Process States
Setting Up Multiprocessing
Automatic Multiprocessing

12. Database Paging

Anticipating Paging
Database Process

13. Intersection Testing

Creating an ISECT Process
Constructing a Segment Set for pfNodeIsectSegs()
Testing for Intersections

14. Creating a User Interface

Traveling through a Scene
Example of Implementing User Interaction

15. Optimizing Performance

General Performance Tips
Culling Unseen Shapes
Maintaining Frame Rate Using D VR
Level of Detail Reduced for Performance
Reducing System Stress
Optimizing pfGeoSet Performance
Optimizing Graphics State Changes
Optimizing Texture Handling
Optimizing File Loading

A. Building a Visual Simulation Application

Overview
Setting Up the Basic Elements
Performance
Compiling and Linking OpenGL Performer Applications

B. Image Gallery

Glossary

Index

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OpenGL Performer Getting Started Guide
(document number: 007-3560-002 / published: 2000-11-14)    table of contents  |  additional info  |  download

    Front Matter
    New Features in This Guide
    About This Guide
    Part I. Overview of OpenGL Performer
    Part II. Programming With OpenGL Performer
    Appendix A. Building a Visual Simulation Application
    Appendix B. Image Gallery
    Glossary
    Index

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