[Wylug-discuss] [Fwd: [Wylug-announce] ANN: Next WYLUG Meeting 14th Nov 2011 - An Introduction to OpenGL]

[Simon Brown]

At Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:33:13 +0000,
James Holden wrote:
> Just a quick reminder of this upcoming meeting. If you didn't know about
> it because you're not subscribed to wylug-announce, then please
> subscribe because that's where they're posted!
> The next WYLUG meeting will be on the 14th of November 2011 at Old Broadcasting
> House[1].
> 
> Paul Brook will be giving a talk, An Introduction to OpenGL:
> 
>   "OpenGL is a low-level API for rendering 3D graphics.  It provides a language
>   agnostic, OS and hardware independent way for applications to utilise GPU
>   acceleration.  OpenGL ES and WebGL provide a reduced (but still fully
>   functional) subset for embedded and web based applications.
>   
>   I will cover the basics of how a 3D model is converted to a bunch of pixels
>   on the screen, and how the different parts of this pipeline fit together.
>   Followed by specifics of how to achieve this with OpenGL.
>   
>   For those who have used OpenGL in the past I'll touch on how the API has
>   evolved from fixed-fuction pipelines to support the additional functionality
>   provided by modern shader based hardware."

I wanted to attend this talk, but was unable. Are the slides
available?

Simon