9.10. Summary

The rendering formulas specified by OpenGL have been reasonable ones to implement in fixed functionality hardware for the past decade or so, but they are not necessarily the best ones to use in your shaders. We look at better-performing and more realistic shaders for lighting and reflection in subsequent chapters. Still, it can be instructive to see how these formulas can be expressed in shaders written in the OpenGL Shading Language. The shader examples presented in this chapter demonstrate the expression of these fixed functionality rendering formulas, but they should not be considered optimal implementations. Take the ideas and the shading code illustrated in this chapter and adapt them to your own needs.