Acknowledgments

I want to thank Affie Munshi and Dave Shreiner for their enormous contributions to the first edition of this book. I am extremely grateful to have Budi Purnomo join me to update the book for OpenGL ES 3.0. I would also like to thank the many colleagues with whom I have worked over the years, who have helped in my education on computer graphics, OpenGL, and OpenGL ES. There are too many people to list all of them, but special thanks go to Shawn Leaf, Bill Licea-Kane, Maurice Ribble, Benj Lipchak, Roger Descheneaux, David Gosselin, Thorsten Scheuermann, John Isidoro, Chris Oat, Jason Mitchell, Dan Gessel, and Evan Hart.

I would like to extend a special thanks to my wife, Sofia, for her support while I worked on this book. I would also like to thank my son, Ethan, who was born during the writing of this book. Your smile and laugh bring me joy every single day.

— Dan Ginsburg

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Dan Ginsburg for providing me with an opportunity to contribute to this book. Thank you to my manager, Callan McInally, and colleagues at AMD for supporting this endeavor. I would also like to thank my past professors, Jonathan Cohen, Subodh Kumar, Ching-Kuang Shene, and John Lowther, for introducing me to the world of computer graphics and OpenGL.

I would like to thank my parents and sister for their unconditional love. Special thanks to my wonderful wife, Liana Hadi, whose love and support allowed me to complete this project. Thank you to my daughters, Michelle Lo and Scarlett Lo. They are the sunshine in my life.

— Budi Purnomo

We all want to thank Neil Trevett for writing the Foreword and getting approval from the Khronos Board of Promoters to allow us to use text from the OpenGL ES Shading Language specification in Appendix B, as well as the OpenGL ES 3.0 Reference Card. A special thank you and debt of gratitude go to the reviewers for their enormously valuable feedback—Maurice Ribble, Peter Lohrmann, and Emmanuel Agu. We also wish to acknowledge the technical reviewers from the first edition of the book—Brian Collins, Chris Grimm, Jeremy Sandmel, Tom Olson, and Adam Smith.

We owe a huge amount of gratitude to our editor, Laura Lewin, at Addison-Wesley, who was enormously helpful in every aspect of creating this book. There were many others at Addison-Wesley who were invaluable in putting together this book and whom we would like to thank, including Debra Williams Cauley, Olivia Basegio, Sheri Cain, and Curt Johnson.

We want to thank our readers from the first edition who have helped us immensely by reporting errata and improving the sample code. We would especially like to thank our reader Javed Rabbani Shah, who ported the OpenGL ES 3.0 sample code to the Android 4.3 SDK in Java. He also helped us with the Android NDK port and resolving many device-specific issues. We thank Jarkko Vatjus-Anttila for providing the Linux X11 port, and Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart and Darryl Gough for porting the first-edition code to the BlackBerry Native SDK.

A big thank you to the OpenGL ARB, the OpenGL ES working group, and everyone who contributed to the development of OpenGL ES.