Excellent for a refresher

I recently bought all of the official OpenGL books including OpenGL Distilled. Before having these, I have only used up to OpenGL 1.2 because the red and blue book I had before only cover OpenGL 1.2.

This book was a great place to get acquainted with the new OpenGL features like Vertex Buffer Objects. It also has a decent section for the platform specific setup (I didn't even notice but I was creating my Window with the wrong parameters the whole time).

The book is a lot smaller than I thought it would be (it's about 2cm thick) but that's a good thing. It's a quick reference manual for a lot that OpenGL has to offer. If you're looking for more in depth OpenGL knowledge, try the red or orange book instead (The super bible 4th edition looks good as well).

Other Reviews

• The best place to begin the study of OpenGL
• Excellent for a refresher
• OpenGL Condensed
• A good handbook for beginning OpenGL programmers