Prateek Mehta - Learn OpenGL ES: For Mobile Game and Graphics Development

Learn OpenGL ES

For Mobile Game and Graphics Development

Prateek Mehta

Learn OpenGL ES

Copyright 2013 by Prateek Mehta

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Dedicated to my parents and my brother for their everlasting support and encouragement.

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About the Author

Prateek Mehta ( pixdip.com/admin/about.html ) is pursuing his B.Tech. degree in Information Technology Engineering at the Indraprastha University. He is a Web and OpenGL ES application developer, and is currently building up a graphic dev-tool based on Apache Flex. He is awaiting collaborators for his Perl parser for Blender geometry definition files ( bitbucket.org/prateekmehta ). This parser has been made use of in this book.

Prateek lives in South West Delhi and, when not doing technical things, works as a freelance lyricist. He spends his spare time playing Counter-Strike, de_dust2, and de_inferno are his favorite maps, where he is busy sniping with his AWP.

On Stack Overflow he has a keen interest in answering questions tagged under css and opengl-es-2.0.

About the Technical Reviewer

Shane Kirk earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2000. Hes currently a software engineer for IDEXX Laboratories in Westbrook, Maine, where he spends his days working with enterprise Java. Hes also a very enthusiastic Android developer with a strong interest in building mobile solutions for working musicians. When Shane isnt coding, you can usually find him holed up in his home studio working on the next album from his band The Wee Lollies ( www.theweelollies.com ).