&gt;<i> <b>OpenGL® Programming Guide, Ninth Edition,</b> </i>provides clear explanations of OpenGL functionality and techniques, including processing geometric objects with vertex, tessellation, and geometry shaders using geometric transformations and viewing matrices; working with pixels and texture maps through fragment shaders; and advanced data techniques using framebuffer objects and compute shaders.<p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px">New OpenGL features covered in this edition include</p><ul><li><div style="margin:0px">Best practices and sample code for taking full advantage of shaders and the entire shading pipeline (including geometry and tessellation shaders)</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Integration of general computation into the rendering pipeline via compute shaders</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Techniques for binding multiple shader programs at once during application execution</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Latest GLSL features for doing advanced shading techniques</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Additional new techniques for optimizing graphics program performance</div></li></ul>