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The Modern Vulkan Cookbook - A practical guide to 3D graphics and advanced real-time rendering techniques in Vulkan - cover

The Modern Vulkan Cookbook - A practical guide to 3D graphics and advanced real-time rendering techniques in Vulkan

Preetish Kakkar, Mauricio Maurer

Maison d'édition: Packt Publishing

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Vulkan is a graphics API that gives the program total control of the GPU, allowing the GPU to be used to its full potential. This cookbook will uncover useful techniques for emerging new technologies, such as hybrid rendering, extended reality – mixed reality (MR), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) – and GPU-driven rendering, and even features a dedicated chapter to help you debug and profile your graphics applications with tips and tricks tested in real-world scenarios.The book starts by explaining basic Vulkan concepts while guiding you through the implementation of a basic graphics engine. The building blocks presented in the first few chapters will then help you implement more advanced techniques and algorithms, while getting you acquainted with the inner workings of Vulkan. Gradually, you’ll discover how Vulkan can be used to build hybrid renderers as well as leveraged for the future of graphics with AR/VR/MR. Moreover, you’ll gain an understanding of how it can be debugged or measured for performance.By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed in how to use Vulkan to write graphics applications and how graphics algorithms are implemented using Vulkan.
Disponible depuis: 12/04/2024.
Longueur d'impression: 334 pages.

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