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OPEN GL RED AND BLUE BOOKS?!?!??!

by Anthony Rosenbaum · in Technical Issues · 01/01/2002 (10:42 am) · 4 replies

where can I find them or something that descibes all the methods 4 openGL?
Anthony

#1
01/01/2002 (12:45 pm)
The OpenGL Red Book amd Blue Book can be ordered from any major bookstore. You can also try the OpenGL "Yellow" book - OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT written by Posner (think this may have been updated to allow for more recent OS's) and available from Addison Wesley Press (who publish the "Red" and "Blue" books as well). Also, The OpenGL SuperBible by Wright & Street, 2nd Ed. by Waite Group Press.

On a more direct route you could look at OpenGL Programming by Hawkins and Astle - part of the Andre' Lamothe's Game Development series by Prima Publishing.
#2
01/01/2002 (3:11 pm)
The first version of both books can be found on the net for free.

I believe these are the correct links:

Red Book

Blue Book

edit - If these links dont work go to www.gamedev.net and look in thier articles section and go to openGL, there will be alternative links there (including a downloadable version of the red book in pdf)

-Tim aka Spock
#3
01/02/2002 (3:04 am)
Thanks for those links :)
#4
01/02/2002 (3:24 am)
Those books will be at www.opengl.org as well I expect.

There's also the opengl specs at that site.

Phil.