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== What is GPipe? == |
== What is GPipe? == |
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| − | [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe GPipe] is a library for programming the GPU (graphics processing unit). It is an alternative to using OpenGl, and has the advantage that it is |
+ | [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe GPipe] is a library for programming the GPU (graphics processing unit). It is an alternative to using OpenGl, and has the advantage that it is functional and statically typed as opposed to OpenGl's inherently imperative style. Another important difference with OpenGl is that with GPipe you don't need to write shaders in a second shader language such as GLSL or Cg, but instead use regular Haskell functions on the GPU data types. GPipe uses the same conceptual model as OpenGl, so if you already know OpenGl, getting up to speed with GPipe is quick! |
| + | == Version 2 == |
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| − | In GPipe, you'll primary work with these four types of data on the GPU: |
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| − | * <hask>PrimitiveStream</hask>s |
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| − | * <hask>FragmentStream</hask>s |
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| − | * <hask>FrameBuffer</hask>s |
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| − | * <hask>Texture</hask>s |
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| − | Let's walk our way through an simple example as I explain how you work with these types. |
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| − | This page is formatted as a literate Haskell page, simply save it as "<tt>box.lhs</tt>" and then type |
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| − | <pre> |
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| − | ghc --make –O box.lhs |
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| − | box |
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| − | </pre> |
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| − | at the prompt to see a spinning box. You’ll also need an image named "<tt>myPicture.jpg</tt>" in the same directory (I used a picture of some wooden planks). |
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| + | In 2015, a new major version of GPipe was realeased. Read the announcement [http://tobbebex.blogspot.se/2015/09/gpipe-is-dead-long-live-gpipe.html here on the GPipe blog]! |
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| − | <haskell> |
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| + | == Examples and tutorials == |
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| − | > module Main where |
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| − | > import Graphics.GPipe |
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| − | > import Graphics.GPipe.Texture.Load |
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| − | > import qualified Data.Vec as Vec |
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| − | > import Data.Vec.Nat |
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| − | > import Data.Vec.LinAlg.Transform3D |
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| − | > import Data.Monoid |
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| − | > import Data.IORef |
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| − | > import Graphics.UI.GLUT |
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| − | > (Window, |
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| − | > mainLoop, |
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| − | > postRedisplay, |
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| − | > idleCallback, |
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| − | > getArgsAndInitialize, |
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| − | > ($=)) |
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| + | A comprehensive tutorial in five parts is now available for GPipe 2: |
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| − | </haskell> |
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| + | * [http://tobbebex.blogspot.se/2015/09/gpu-programming-in-haskell-using-gpipe.html Part 1 - Hello world] |
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| − | Besides [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe GPipe], this example also uses the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Vec-Transform Vec-Transform package] for the transformation matrices, and the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe-TextureLoad GPipe-TextureLoad package] for loading textures from disc. [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLUT GLUT] is used in GPipe for window management and the main loop. |
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| + | * [http://tobbebex.blogspot.se/2015/09/gpu-programming-in-haskell-using-gpipe_11.html Part 2 - Buffers and arrays] |
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| + | * [http://tobbebex.blogspot.se/2015/10/gpu-programming-in-haskell-using-gpipe.html Part 3 - Shaders and primitive streams] |
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| + | * [http://tobbebex.blogspot.se/2015/10/gpu-programming-in-haskell-using-gpipe_21.html Part 4 - Textures and samplers] |
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| + | * [http://tobbebex.blogspot.se/2015/11/gpu-programming-in-haskell-using-gpipe.html Part 5 - Drawing] |
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| + | * Quake 3 map viewer using GPipe 2, sources on [https://github.com/csabahruska/gpipe-quake3 GitHub]. |
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| + | Use at least version 2.1.3 for the examples in these. |
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| − | == Creating a window == |
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| + | == GPipe 1 Examples and tutorials == |
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| − | We start by defining the <hask>main</hask> function. |
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| + | '' Note that these only applies to the older deprecated version of GPipe '' |
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| − | <haskell> |
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| + | * Wiki [[/Tutorial/]] that explains the basic principles of GPipe 1. |
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| − | > main :: IO () |
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| + | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe-Examples GPipe-Examples package], by Kree Cole-McLaughlin features a set of four examples with increasing complexity. |
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| − | > main = do |
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| + | * Csaba Hruska has made a Quake 3 map viewer using GPipe 1, sources on [https://github.com/csabahruska/GFXDemo GitHub]. |
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| − | > getArgsAndInitialize |
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| − | > tex <- loadTexture RGB8 "myPicture.jpg" |
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| − | > angleRef <- newIORef 0.0 |
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| − | > newWindow "Spinning box" (100:.100:.()) (800:.600:.()) (renderFrame tex angleRef) initWindow |
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| − | > mainLoop |
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| + | == Sources == |
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| − | > renderFrame :: Texture2D RGBFormat -> IORef Float -> Vec2 Int -> IO (FrameBuffer RGBFormat () ()) |
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| − | > renderFrame tex angleRef size = do |
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| − | > angle <- readIORef angleRef |
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| − | > writeIORef angleRef ((angle + 0.001) `mod'` (2*pi)) |
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| − | > return $ cubeFrameBuffer tex angle size |
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| + | All my GPipe related library sources are available on [http://github.com/tobbebex Github]. If you have something to contribute with, just send me a patch and I might merge it into the trunk. |
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| − | > initWindow :: Window -> IO () |
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| − | > initWindow win = idleCallback $= Just (postRedisplay (Just win)) |
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| + | == Other resources == |
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| − | </haskell> |
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| + | === GPipe 2 === |
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| − | First we set up GLUT, and load a texture from disc via the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe-TextureLoad GPipe-TextureLoad package] function <hask>loadTexture</hask>. In this example we're going to animate a spinning box, and for that we put an angle in an <hask>IORef</hask> so that we can update it between frames. We then create a window with [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-FrameBuffer.html#v:newWindow <hask>newWindow</hask>]. When the window is created, <hask>initWindow</hask> registers this window as being continously redisplayed in the idle loop. At each frame, the <hask>IO</hask> action <hask>renderFrame tex angleRef</hask> is run. In this function the angle is incremented with 0.01 (reseted each lap), and a <hask>FrameBuffer</hask> is created and returned to be displayed in the window. But before I explain <hask>FrameBuffer</hask>s, let's jump to the start of the graphics pipeline instead. |
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| + | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe-GLFW GPipe-GLFW] is the first window management package for GPipe 2. |
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| + | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/linear linear] is the vector math package used by GPipe 2. |
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| − | == |
+ | === GPipe 1 === |
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| − | The graphics pipeline starts with creating primitives such as triangles on the GPU.Let's create a box with six sides, each made up of two triangles each. |
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| − | <haskell> |
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| − | > cube :: PrimitiveStream Triangle (Vec3 (Vertex Float), Vec3 (Vertex Float), Vec2 (Vertex Float)) |
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| − | > cube = mconcat [sidePosX, sideNegX, sidePosY, sideNegY, sidePosZ, sideNegZ] |
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| − | > sidePosX = toGPUStream TriangleStrip $ zip3 [1:.0:.0:.(), 1:.1:.0:.(), 1:.0:.1:.(), 1:.1:.1:.()] (repeat (1:.0:.0:.())) uvCoords |
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| − | > sideNegX = toGPUStream TriangleStrip $ zip3 [0:.0:.1:.(), 0:.1:.1:.(), 0:.0:.0:.(), 0:.1:.0:.()] (repeat ((-1):.0:.0:.())) uvCoords |
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| − | > sidePosY = toGPUStream TriangleStrip $ zip3 [0:.1:.1:.(), 1:.1:.1:.(), 0:.1:.0:.(), 1:.1:.0:.()] (repeat (0:.1:.0:.())) uvCoords |
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| − | > sideNegY = toGPUStream TriangleStrip $ zip3 [0:.0:.0:.(), 1:.0:.0:.(), 0:.0:.1:.(), 1:.0:.1:.()] (repeat (0:.(-1):.0:.())) uvCoords |
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| − | > sidePosZ = toGPUStream TriangleStrip $ zip3 [1:.0:.1:.(), 1:.1:.1:.(), 0:.0:.1:.(), 0:.1:.1:.()] (repeat (0:.0:.1:.())) uvCoords |
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| − | > sideNegZ = toGPUStream TriangleStrip $ zip3 [0:.0:.0:.(), 0:.1:.0:.(), 1:.0:.0:.(), 1:.1:.0:.()] (repeat (0:.0:.(-1):.())) uvCoords |
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| − | > uvCoords = [0:.0:.(), 0:.1:.(), 1:.0:.(), 1:.1:.()] |
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| − | </haskell> |
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| − | Every side of the box is created from a normal list of four elements each, where each element is a tuple with three vectors: a position, a normal and an uv-coordinate. These lists of vertices are then turned into [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-Stream-Primitive.html#t:PrimitiveStream <hask>PrimitiveStream</hask>]s on the GPU by [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-Stream-Primitive.html#v:toGPUStream <hask>toGPUStream</hask>] that in our case creates triangle strips from the vertices, i.e 2 triangles from 4 vertices. Refer to the OpenGl specification on how triangle strips and the other topologies works. |
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| − | All six sides are then concatenated together into a cube. We can see that the type of the cube is a <hask>PrimitiveStream</hask> of [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-Stream-Primitive.html#t:Triangle <hask>Triangle</hask>]s where each vertex is a tuple of three vectors, just as the lists we started with. One big difference is that those vectors now are made up of <hask>Vertex Float</hask>s instead of <hask>Float</hask>s since they are now on the GPU. |
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| − | The cube is defined in model-space, i.e where positions and normals are relative the cube. We now want to rotate that cube using a variable angle and project the whole thing with a perspective projection, as it is seen through a camera 2 units down the z-axis. |
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| − | > transformedCube :: Float -> Vec2 Int -> PrimitiveStream Triangle (Vec4 (Vertex Float), (Vec3 (Vertex Float), Vec2 (Vertex Float))) |
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| − | > transformedCube angle size = fmap (transform angle size) cube |
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| − | > transform angle (width:.height:.()) (pos, norm, uv) = (transformedPos, (transformedNorm, uv)) |
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| − | > where |
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| − | > modelMat = rotationVec (normalize (1:.0.5:.0.3:.())) angle `multmm` translation (-0.5) |
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| − | > viewMat = translation (-(0:.0:.2:.())) |
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| − | > projMat = perspective 1 100 (pi/3) (fromIntegral width / fromIntegral height) |
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| − | > viewProjMat = projMat `multmm` viewMat |
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| − | > transformedPos = toGPU (viewProjMat `multmm` modelMat) `multmv` homPoint pos |
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| − | > transformedNorm = toGPU (Vec.map (Vec.take n3) $ Vec.take n3 $ modelMat) `multmv` norm |
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| − | </haskell> |
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| − | The [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-Stream.html#v:toGPU <hask>toGPU</hask>] function transforms normal values like <hask>Float</hask>s into GPU-values like <hask>Vertex Float</hask> so it can be used with the vertices of the <hask>PrimitiveStream</hask>. |
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| − | == FragmentStreams == |
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| − | To render the primitives on the screen, we must first turn them into pixel fragments. This called rasterization and in our example done by the function [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-Stream-Fragment.html#v:rasterizeFront <hask>rasterizeFront</hask>], which transforms <hask>PrimitiveStream</hask>s into [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-Stream-Fragment.html#t:FragmentStream <hask>FragmentStream</hask>]s. |
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| − | > rasterizedCube :: Float -> Vec2 Int -> FragmentStream (Vec3 (Fragment Float), Vec2 (Fragment Float)) |
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| − | > rasterizedCube angle size = rasterizeFront $ transformedCube angle size |
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| − | </haskell> |
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| − | In the rasterization process, values of type <hask>Vertex Float</hask> are turned into values of type <hask>Fragment Float</hask>. |
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| − | For each fragment, we now want to give it a color from the texture we initially loaded, as well as light it with a directional light coming from the camera. |
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| − | > litCube :: Texture2D RGBFormat -> Float -> Vec2 Int -> FragmentStream (Color RGBFormat (Fragment Float)) |
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| − | > litCube tex angle size = fmap (enlight tex) $ rasterizedCube angle size |
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| − | > enlight tex (norm, uv) = RGB (c * Vec.vec (norm `dot` toGPU (0:.0:.1:.()))) |
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| − | > where RGB c = sample (Sampler Linear Wrap) tex uv |
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| − | </haskell> |
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| − | The function [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/1.1.3/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-Texture.html#v:sample <hask>sample</hask>] is used for sampling the texture we have loaded, using the fragment's interpolated uv-coordinates and a sampler state. |
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| − | Once we have a <hask>FragmentStream</hask> of <hask>Color</hask>s, we can paint those fragments onto a <hask>FrameBuffer</hask>. |
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| − | == FrameBuffers == |
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| − | A [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-FrameBuffer.html#t:FrameBuffer <hask>FrameBuffer</hask>] is a 2D image in which fragments from <hask>FragmentStream</hask>s are painted. A <hask>FrameBuffer</hask> may contain any combination of a color buffer, a depth buffer and a stencil buffer. Besides being shown in windows, <hask>FrameBuffer</hask>s may also be saved to memory or converted to textures, thus enabling multi pass rendering. A <hask>FrameBuffer</hask> has no defined size, but take the size of the window when shown, or are given a size when saved to memory or converted to a texture. |
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| − | And so finally, we paint the fragments we have created onto a black <hask>FrameBuffer</hask>. By this we use [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GPipe/latest/doc/html/Graphics-GPipe-FrameBuffer.html#v:paintColor <hask>paintColor</hask>] without any blending or color masking. |
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| − | > cubeFrameBuffer :: Texture2D RGBFormat -> Float -> Vec2 Int -> FrameBuffer RGBFormat () () |
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| − | > cubeFrameBuffer tex angle size = paintSolid (litCube tex angle size) emptyFrameBuffer |
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| − | > paintSolid = paintColor NoBlending (RGB $ Vec.vec True) |
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| − | > emptyFrameBuffer = newFrameBufferColor (RGB 0) |
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| − | </haskell> |
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| − | This <hask>FrameBuffer</hask> is the one we return from the <hask>renderFrame</hask> action we defined at the top. |
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| − | == Screenshot == |
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| − | [[Image:box.jpg]] |
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| + | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLUT GLUT] is used in GPipe 1 for window management and the main loop. |
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| + | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Vec Vec package] is the vector math package used by GPipe 1. |
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| + | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe-TextureLoad GPipe-TextureLoad package] helps loading textures from disc. |
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| + | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe-Collada GPipe-Collada package] makes it possible to use Collada files with GPipe. |
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== Questions and feedback == |
== Questions and feedback == |
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If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to [mailto:tobias_bexelius@hotmail.com mail] me. I'm also interested in seeing some use cases from the community, as complex or trivial they may be. |
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to [mailto:tobias_bexelius@hotmail.com mail] me. I'm also interested in seeing some use cases from the community, as complex or trivial they may be. |
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| + | [[Category:3D]] |
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| + | [[Category:Graphics]] |
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| + | [[Category:Libraries]] |
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| + | [[Category:Packages]] |
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Latest revision as of 15:27, 6 January 2016
What is GPipe?
GPipe is a library for programming the GPU (graphics processing unit). It is an alternative to using OpenGl, and has the advantage that it is functional and statically typed as opposed to OpenGl's inherently imperative style. Another important difference with OpenGl is that with GPipe you don't need to write shaders in a second shader language such as GLSL or Cg, but instead use regular Haskell functions on the GPU data types. GPipe uses the same conceptual model as OpenGl, so if you already know OpenGl, getting up to speed with GPipe is quick!
Version 2
In 2015, a new major version of GPipe was realeased. Read the announcement here on the GPipe blog!
Examples and tutorials
A comprehensive tutorial in five parts is now available for GPipe 2:
- Part 1 - Hello world
- Part 2 - Buffers and arrays
- Part 3 - Shaders and primitive streams
- Part 4 - Textures and samplers
- Part 5 - Drawing
- Quake 3 map viewer using GPipe 2, sources on GitHub.
Use at least version 2.1.3 for the examples in these.
GPipe 1 Examples and tutorials
Note that these only applies to the older deprecated version of GPipe
- Wiki Tutorial that explains the basic principles of GPipe 1.
- GPipe-Examples package, by Kree Cole-McLaughlin features a set of four examples with increasing complexity.
- Csaba Hruska has made a Quake 3 map viewer using GPipe 1, sources on GitHub.
Sources
All my GPipe related library sources are available on Github. If you have something to contribute with, just send me a patch and I might merge it into the trunk.
Other resources
GPipe 2
- GPipe-GLFW is the first window management package for GPipe 2.
- linear is the vector math package used by GPipe 2.
GPipe 1
- GLUT is used in GPipe 1 for window management and the main loop.
- Vec package is the vector math package used by GPipe 1.
- GPipe-TextureLoad package helps loading textures from disc.
- GPipe-Collada package makes it possible to use Collada files with GPipe.
Questions and feedback
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to mail me. I'm also interested in seeing some use cases from the community, as complex or trivial they may be.