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Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser, Dr. Dennis Kengo...
Offensive Automotive Cybersecurity is your practical guide to understanding how modern automotive vulnerabilities are exploited—so you can build resilient defenses against proven attack methods.As vehicles evolve into software-defined systems, their expanding attack surface increases exposure to sophisticated threats. This book examines the entire connected vehicle ecosystem—from cloud backends and wireless protocols to in-vehicle networks, HPCs, ECUs, and physical sensors—through an offensive security lens.Through a blend of theory and reviewing practical examples, you will learn to execute the full penetration testing lifecycle, encompassing active and passive reconnaissance, firmware reverse engineering, and the construction of complex attack chains. The book provides hands-on insights into exploiting memory corruption bugs in HPCs, abusing diagnostic protocols, and leveraging hardware-level vulnerabilities such as fault injection and side-channel leakage. These techniques are brought to life through detailed real-world case studies, including remote takeovers and exploits of well-known vehicle platforms.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to think like an adversary, uncover hidden risks before attackers do, apply secure-by-design principles, and implement layered defenses to reduce exploitable weaknesses.
Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser, Dr. Dennis Kengo...
Offensive Automotive Cybersecurity is your practical guide to understanding how modern automotive vulnerabilities are exploited—so you can build resilient defenses against proven attack methods.As vehicles evolve into software-defined systems, their expanding attack surface increases exposure to sophisticated threats. This book examines the entire connected vehicle ecosystem—from cloud backends and wireless protocols to in-vehicle networks, HPCs, ECUs, and physical sensors—through an offensive security lens.Through a blend of theory and reviewing practical examples, you will learn to execute the full penetration testing lifecycle, encompassing active and passive reconnaissance, firmware reverse engineering, and the construction of complex attack chains. The book provides hands-on insights into exploiting memory corruption bugs in HPCs, abusing diagnostic protocols, and leveraging hardware-level vulnerabilities such as fault injection and side-channel leakage. These techniques are brought to life through detailed real-world case studies, including remote takeovers and exploits of well-known vehicle platforms.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to think like an adversary, uncover hidden risks before attackers do, apply secure-by-design principles, and implement layered defenses to reduce exploitable weaknesses.
Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser, Dr. Dennis Kengo...
Offensive Automotive Cybersecurity is your practical guide to understanding how modern automotive vulnerabilities are exploited—so you can build resilient defenses against proven attack methods.As vehicles evolve into software-defined systems, their expanding attack surface increases exposure to sophisticated threats. This book examines the entire connected vehicle ecosystem—from cloud backends and wireless protocols to in-vehicle networks, HPCs, ECUs, and physical sensors—through an offensive security lens.Through a blend of theory and reviewing practical examples, you will learn to execute the full penetration testing lifecycle, encompassing active and passive reconnaissance, firmware reverse engineering, and the construction of complex attack chains. The book provides hands-on insights into exploiting memory corruption bugs in HPCs, abusing diagnostic protocols, and leveraging hardware-level vulnerabilities such as fault injection and side-channel leakage. These techniques are brought to life through detailed real-world case studies, including remote takeovers and exploits of well-known vehicle platforms.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to think like an adversary, uncover hidden risks before attackers do, apply secure-by-design principles, and implement layered defenses to reduce exploitable weaknesses.
Office 365 Essentials. Get up and running with the fundamentals of Office 365
Nuno Arias Silva
Office 365 is suite of advanced collaboration tools used by many well known organizations and their system administrators. This book starts with an introduction to Office 365 and its basic fundamentals. Then we move towards workload management and deployment. You will delve into identities, authentications, and managing office 365. We also cover concepts such as collaboration with Microsoft teams and tools such as Delve and Skype for collaboration. Towards the end of the book, you'll master monitoring and security concepts.By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Office 365 and its collaboration tools and services
Office 365 Essentials. Get up and running with the fundamentals of Office 365
Nuno Arias Silva
Office 365 is suite of advanced collaboration tools used by many well known organizations and their system administrators. This book starts with an introduction to Office 365 and its basic fundamentals. Then we move towards workload management and deployment. You will delve into identities, authentications, and managing office 365. We also cover concepts such as collaboration with Microsoft teams and tools such as Delve and Skype for collaboration. Towards the end of the book, you'll master monitoring and security concepts.By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Office 365 and its collaboration tools and services
OGRE 3D 1.7 Beginner's Guide. Create real time 3D applications using OGRE 3D from scratch
Felix Kerger
Want to make your own 3D applications, simulations, and games?OGRE 3D, an open source Object-Oriented 3D Graphics Rendering Engine written in C++, which can be utilized to create a variety of 3D applications and is commonly used in game creation, can help you to do so!OGRE 3D 1.7 Beginner's Guide, based on the latest version 1.7, makes it super easy for you to make your own monsters, spaceship shooters, weapons, enemies, and more!OGRE 3D 1.7 Beginner's Guide will teach you to develop 3D applications that are exciting and interesting and if used correctly can result in stunning games and simulations. You will start from the very beginning and then work your way up to complex scenes and stunning effects.In this book you will start with how to download and configure OGRE 3D, then create your first example scene. With the help of this sample scene, you will be introduced to several related topics each of which will be explained through several other examples and by do-it-yourself tasks.After each example there is a section that explains the theory behind the technique used for deeper understanding. You will also use what you learned in one example in another example and repeat each technique several times while learning new ones at the same time to strengthen the topics learned. Within no time you will master the art of game creation. Imagine how great you will feel when all your friends are playing the great-looking games you've created with OGRE 3D and this book.
Oko w oko z Adobe Photoshop CS4/CS4 PL
Deke McClelland
Opanuj Adobe Photoshop w dwunastu lekcjach! Jak dokonać korekty zdjęcia? Jak korzystać z warstw? Jak przygotować materiał dla drukarni? Adobe Photoshop jest najbardziej zaawansowanym i jednocześnie najpopularniejszym narzędziem do obróbki grafiki rastrowej. Perfekcyjnie opracowany interfejs użytkownika, obsługa ogromnej liczby formatów graficznych oraz bogactwo narzędzi to niewątpliwie atuty tego programu. Ukoronowaniem jego blisko osiemnastoletniej obecności na rynku jest wersja CS4, która kontynuuje najlepsze tradycje podstawowego narzędzia pracy każdego grafika. Deke McClelland w dwunastu przyjemnych lekcjach zaprezentuje Ci tajniki pracy z Photoshopem CS4. A więc zaczynamy! Temat lekcji pierwszej to otwieranie dokumentów i zarządzanie plikami. Lekcja druga - światła, półcienie i cienie. Lekcja trzecia - równowaga kolorów. Lekcja czwarta - zaznaczanie. Z tym podręcznikiem nauczysz się także kadrować, prostować oraz skalować zdjęcia. Ponadto zdobędziesz wiedzę na temat korzystania z filtrów, warstw oraz stylów. Ostatnia lekcja zapozna Cię ze sposobami przygotowania publikacji do druku. Doświadczenie autora w zakresie wykorzystania tego narzędzia jest imponujące, co gwarantuje, że książka ta spełni Twoje oczekiwania! Sposoby otwierania dokumentów Wydajne zarządzanie plikami Automatyczna korekcja obrazów Korekcja przebarwień fotografii Sposoby korekty zdjęć w formacie Camera Raw Metody wyodrębniania fragmentu zdjęcia Zaznaczanie nieregularnych kształtów Retuszowanie fotografii Używanie masek Zastosowanie filtrów Wykorzystanie warstw Tworzenie napisów Drukowanie zdjęć Przygotowywanie materiału dla drukarni w formacie CMYK Opanuj możliwości Photoshopa CS4!
HenkJan de Vries, Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
Identity and access management (IAM) is a set of policies and technologies used to ensure an organization’s security, by carefully assigning roles and access to users and devices. This book will get you up and running with Okta, an IAM service that can help you manage both employees and customers.The book begins by helping you understand how Okta can be used as an IAM platform, before teaching you about Universal Directory and how to integrate with other directories and apps, as well as set up groups and policies for Joiner, Mover, and Leaver flows.This updated edition helps you to explore agentless desktop single sign-on (SSO) and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions, and showing how to utilize Okta to meet NIST requirements. The chapters also walk you through Okta Workflows, low-/no-code automation functionalities, and custom API possibilities used to improve lifecycle management. Finally, you’ll delve into API access auditing and management, where you’ll discover how to leverage Advanced Server Access (ASA) for your cloud servers.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to implement Okta to enhance your organization's security and be able to use the book as a reference guide for the Okta certification exam.
Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf, HenkJan de Vries
IAM, short for identity and access management, is a set of policies and technologies for ensuring the security of an organization through careful role and access assignment for users and devices. With this book, you’ll get up and running with Okta, an identity and access management (IAM) service that you can use for both employees and customers.Once you’ve understood how Okta can be used as an IAM platform, you’ll learn about the Universal Directory, which covers how to integrate other directories and applications and set up groups and policies. As you make progress, the book explores Okta’s single sign-on (SSO) feature and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions. Finally, you will delve into API access management and discover how you can leverage Advanced Server Access for your cloud servers and Okta Access Gateway for your on-premises applications.By the end of this Okta book, you’ll have learned how to implement Okta to enhance your organization's security and be able to use this book as a reference guide for the Okta certification exam.
Ruben Olsen
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why settle for anything less? Creating good visualizations to substantiate your ideas is essential in today's corporate environment. Use OmniGraffle's remarkably powerful and flexible features to get your diagrams right. Although fun to use, it can get cumbersome to find out exactly how to get what you want.This book will teach you how to make stunning diagrams without spending much time and energy. No matter if you have never used OmniGraffle, or if you are using it on a daily basis, this book will teach you how to get the most out of this splendid diagramming tool. It will first teach you the basics of the program and then extend your knowledge to a higher level.The book will teach you to make eye-popping visuals using a lot of useful, step-by-step examples. It begins with covering concepts that beef up your basics of using OmniGraffle. The earlier chapters will teach you to prepare dazzling diagrams from scratch with the many stencils, shapes, and fonts that are included in OmniGraffle. As your understanding of OmniGraffle broadens, the book will go even deeper to explain the less understood features of the software. It also covers some handy time-saving techniques such as workspaces and keyboard shortcuts.By the time you reach the end of this book, you will have mastered OmniGraffle to turn your ideas into diagrams.
Bill Aronson
Open Text ProVision® (formerly known as Metastorm ProVision®) is an Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution allowing for effective planning and decision making throughout the enterprise. It enables an organization to have a central repository of information about the business, reducing organizational risks and better optimizing business resources.Implemented well, it enables better and more actionable decisions exactly when you need them.This book combines theory and practice to provide a step- by- step guide to building a successful customer- centric model of your business. The approach is simple and down to earth, and along the way, with various real-world examples, you will learn how to make a business case, use a framework, and adopt a methodology with Open Text ProVision®. This book draws on the experience of ProVision® experts around the world. By combining theory with practice from the field you can avoid common mistakes and develop a successful customer centric strategy for implementing ProVision®. Each chapter builds on the previous one to give you the confidence to implement a central repository, dealing with both the technical and human issues that you might face.
Henry Habib, Sam McKay, Paul Siegel
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries with OpenAI at the forefront of AI research, knowing how to create innovative applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, content generators, and productivity enhancers is a game-changer. This book takes a practical, recipe-based approach to unlocking the power of OpenAI API to build high-performance intelligent applications in diverse industries and seamlessly integrate ChatGPT in your workflows to increase productivity.You’ll begin with the OpenAI API fundamentals, covering setup, authentication, and key parameters, and quickly progress to the different elements of the OpenAI API. Once you’ve learned how to use it effectively and tweak parameters for better results, you’ll follow advanced recipes for enhancing user experience and refining outputs. The book guides your transition from development to live application deployment, setting up the API for public use and application backend. Further, you’ll discover step-by-step recipes for building knowledge-based assistants and multi-model applications tailored to your specific needs.By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through recipes involving various OpenAI API endpoints and built a variety of intelligent applications, ready to apply this experience to building AI-powered solutions of your own.
Henry Habib, Sam McKay, Paul Siegel
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries with OpenAI at the forefront of AI research, knowing how to create innovative applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, content generators, and productivity enhancers is a game-changer. This book takes a practical, recipe-based approach to unlocking the power of OpenAI API to build high-performance intelligent applications in diverse industries and seamlessly integrate ChatGPT in your workflows to increase productivity.You’ll begin with the OpenAI API fundamentals, covering setup, authentication, and key parameters, and quickly progress to the different elements of the OpenAI API. Once you’ve learned how to use it effectively and tweak parameters for better results, you’ll follow advanced recipes for enhancing user experience and refining outputs. The book guides your transition from development to live application deployment, setting up the API for public use and application backend. Further, you’ll discover step-by-step recipes for building knowledge-based assistants and multi-model applications tailored to your specific needs.By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through recipes involving various OpenAI API endpoints and built a variety of intelligent applications, ready to apply this experience to building AI-powered solutions of your own.
Henry Habib
Firma OpenAI pozostaje niekwestionowanym liderem badań nad sztuczną inteligencją. Dzięki udostępnianym przez nią rozwiązaniom tworzenie innowacyjnych aplikacji, takich jak czatboty, wirtualne asystenty, generatory treści i narzędzia zwiększające produktywność, stało się o wiele prostsze. Bezsprzecznie powszechna dostępność technologii AI zmienia zasady gry! Receptury zawarte w tym zbiorze ułatwią Ci budowę szerokiej gamy inteligentnych aplikacji. Zaczniesz od podstaw OpenAI API - konfiguracji, uwierzytelniania i kluczowych parametrów - po czym szybko przejdziesz do nauki korzystania z najważniejszych elementów API. Następnie przyjdzie czas na zaawansowane receptury, dzięki którym poprawisz wrażenia użytkownika i dopracujesz dane wyjściowe. Dowiesz się, jak wdrażać aplikacje i przygotować je do publicznego użytku. Nauczysz się również budowania inteligentnych asystentów opartych na specjalistycznej wiedzy, a także aplikacji multimodalnych dostosowanych do Twoich specyficznych potrzeb. W książce: podstawy interfejsu OpenAI API, jego możliwości i ograniczenia konfiguracja OpenAI API krok po kroku zaawansowane funkcje, w tym komunikat systemowy i dostrajanie integracja OpenAI API z istniejącymi aplikacjami i procesami projektowanie aplikacji wykorzystujących w pełni możliwości OpenAI API Postęp technologii polega na dostosowaniu jej tak, abyśmy nawet jej nie zauważali i by mogła stać się częścią codziennego życia! Bill Gates
OpenCart Theming. Create custom themes and modules using the exciting new features of OpenCart
Rupak Nepali
This book is aimed at developers and designers who want to start developing their own themes and extensions and for those who want to know about the code workflow of the OpenCart theme and modules.
Joseph Howse, Steven Puttemans, Utkarsh Sinha
Computer vision is becoming accessible to a large audience of software developers who can leverage mature libraries such as OpenCV. However, as they move beyond their first experiments in computer vision, developers may struggle to ensure that their solutions are sufficiently well optimized, well trained, robust, and adaptive in real-world conditions. With sufficient knowledge of OpenCV, these developers will have enough confidence to go about creating projects in the field of computer vision.This book will help you tackle increasingly challenging computer vision problems that you may face in your careers. It makes use of OpenCV 3 to work around some interesting projects. Inside these pages, you will find practical and innovative approaches that are battle-tested in the authors’ industry experience and research. Each chapter covers the theory and practice of multiple complementary approaches so that you will be able to choose wisely in your future projects. You will also gain insights into the architecture and algorithms that underpin OpenCV’s functionality.We begin by taking a critical look at inputs in order to decide which kinds of light, cameras, lenses, and image formats are best suited to a given purpose. We proceed to consider the finer aspects of computational photography as we build an automated camera to assist nature photographers. You will gain a deep understanding of some of the most widely applicable and reliable techniques in object detection, feature selection, tracking, and even biometric recognition. We will also build Android projects in which we explore the complexities of camera motion: first in panoramic image stitching and then in video stabilization.By the end of the book, you will have a much richer understanding of imaging, motion, machine learning, and the architecture of computer vision libraries and applications!
Amgad Muhammad
Starting from the basics of computer vision and OpenCV, we'll take you all the way to creating exciting applications. You will discover that, though computer vision is a challenging subject, the ideas and algorithms used are simple and intuitive, and you will appreciate the abstraction layer that OpenCV uses to do the heavy lifting for you. Packed with many examples, the book will help you understand the main data structures used within OpenCV, and how you can use them to gain performance boosts. Next we will discuss and use several image processing algorithms such as histogram equalization, filters, and color space conversion. You then will learn about image gradients and how they are used in many shape analysis techniques such as edge detection, Hough Line Transform, and Hough Circle Transform. In addition to using shape analysis to find things in images, you will learn how to describe objects in images in a more robust way using different feature detectors and descriptors. By the end of this book, you will be able to make intelligent decisions using the famous Adaboost learning algorithm.
Prateek Joshi, David Millán Escrivá, Vinícius G....
Open CV is a cross-platform, free-for-use library that is primarily used for real-time Computer Vision and image processing. It is considered to be one of the best open source libraries that helps developers focus on constructing complete projects on image processing, motion detection, and image segmentation.Whether you are completely new to the concept of Computer Vision or have a basic understanding of it, this book will be your guide to understanding the basic OpenCV concepts and algorithms through amazing real-world examples and projects.Starting from the installation of OpenCV on your system and understanding the basics of image processing, we swiftly move on to creating optical flow video analysis or text recognition in complex scenes, and will take you through the commonly used Computer Vision techniques to build your own Open CV projects from scratch.By the end of this book, you will be familiar with the basics of Open CV such as matrix operations, filters, and histograms, as well as more advanced concepts such as segmentation, machine learning, complex video analysis, and text recognition.
Robert Laganiere
OpenCV 3 Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook is appropriate for novice C++ programmers who want to learn how to use the OpenCV library to build computer vision applications. It is also suitable for professional software developers wishing to be introduced to the concepts of computer vision programming. It can also be used as a companion book in a university-level computer vision courses. It constitutes an excellent reference for graduate students and researchers in image processing and computer vision.
Oscar Deniz Suarez
This book is intended for C++ developers who want to learn how to implement the main techniques of OpenCV and get started with it quickly. Working experience with computer vision / image processing is expected.
Joseph Howse
This book is for programmers who want to expand their skills by building fun, smart, and useful systems with OpenCV. The projects are ideal in helping you to think creatively about the uses of computer vision, natural user interfaces, and ubiquitous computers (in your home, car, and hand).
Prateek Joshi
Computer vision is found everywhere in modern technology. OpenCV for Python enables us to run computer vision algorithms in real time. With the advent of powerful machines, we are getting more processing power to work with. Using this technology, we can seamlessly integrate our computer vision applications into the cloud. Web developers can develop complex applications without having to reinvent the wheel.This book will walk you through all the building blocks needed to build amazing computer vision applications with ease. We start off with applying geometric transformations to images. We then discuss affine and projective transformations and see how we can use them to apply cool geometric effects to photos. We will then cover techniques used for object recognition, 3D reconstruction, stereo imaging, and other computer vision applications.This book will also provide clear examples written in Python to build OpenCV applications. The book starts off with simple beginner’s level tasks such as basic processing and handling images, image mapping, and detecting images. It also covers popular OpenCV libraries with the help of examples.The book is a practical tutorial that covers various examples at different levels, teaching you about the different functions of OpenCV and their actual implementation.
OpenDaylight Cookbook. Deploy and operate software-defined networking in your organization
Mathieu Lemay, Alexis de Talhouët, Jamie Goodyear,...
OpenDaylight is an open source platform to program and build Software-Defined Networks (SDN). Its aim is to accelerate the adoption of SDN and NFV. With above 90 practical recipes, this book will help you to solve day-to-day problems and maintenance tasks surrounding OpenDaylight’s implementation.This book starts with the OpenDaylight fundamentals. In this book, you will gain a sound understanding of the methods and techniques when deploying OpenDaylight in production environment. Later on, you will learn to create a Service Chain using SFC. This book will address common problems and day-to-day maintenance tasks with OpenDaylight. We’ll also will teach you how to interact with OpenDaylight APIs and use the necessary tools to simulate networks. You will also explore how to create your own branded OpenDaylight along with authorising and authenticating users using OpenDaylight Identity Manager.By the end of this book, you will have the necessary skills to operate an OpenDaylight SDN environment.
Kingston Smiler. S
This book is intended for network protocol developers, SDN controller application developers, and academics who would like to understand and develop their own OpenFlow switch or OpenFlow controller in any programming language. With basic understanding of OpenFlow and its components, you will be able to follow the recipes in this book.
Denis Perevalov
If you are a programmer, visual artist, or designer with experience in creative coding, and want to use openFrameworks to create fun, stunning, and interactive applications, this is the book for you. Basic knowledge of programming languages, such as C++, Java, Python, or JavaScript, will be enough to proceed with the book.
David Wolff
OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) is a programming language used for customizing parts of the OpenGL graphics pipeline that were formerly fixed-function, and are executed directly on the GPU. It provides programmers with unprecedented flexibility for implementing effects and optimizations utilizing the power of modern GPUs. With Version 4, the language has been further refined to provide programmers with greater power and flexibility, with new stages such as tessellation and compute.OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples that first walk you through the theory and background behind each technique, and then go on to provide and explain the GLSL and OpenGL code needed to implement it. Beginner level through to advanced techniques are presented including topics such as texturing, screen-space techniques, lighting, shading, tessellation shaders, geometry shaders, compute shaders, and shadows.OpenGL Shading Language 4 Cookbook is a practical guide that takes you from the fundamentals of programming with modern GLSL and OpenGL, through to advanced techniques. The recipes build upon each other and take you quickly from novice to advanced level code.You'll see essential lighting and shading techniques; examples that demonstrate how to make use of textures for a wide variety of effects and as part of other techniques; examples of screen-space techniques including HDR rendering, bloom, and blur; shadowing techniques; tessellation, geometry, and compute shaders; how to use noise effectively; and animation with particle systems.OpenGL Shading Language 4 Cookbook provides examples of modern shading techniques that can be used as a starting point for programmers to expand upon to produce modern, interactive, 3D computer graphics applications.
David Wolff
The OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) is a programming language used for customizing parts of the OpenGL graphics pipeline that were formerly fixed-function, and are executed directly on the GPU. It provides programmers with unprecedented flexibility for implementing effects and optimizations utilizing the power of modern GPUs. With version 4.0, the language has been further refined to provide programmers with greater flexibility, and additional features have been added such as an entirely new stage called the tessellation shader.The OpenGL Shading Language 4.0 Cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples that first walk you through the theory and background behind each technique then go on to provide and explain the GLSL and OpenGL code needed to implement it. Beginning level through to advanced techniques are presented including topics such as texturing, screen-space techniques, lighting, shading, tessellation shaders, geometry shaders, and shadows.The OpenGL Shading Language 4.0 Cookbook is a practical guide that takes you from the basics of programming with GLSL 4.0 and OpenGL 4.0, through basic lighting and shading techniques, to more advanced techniques and effects. It presents techniques for producing basic lighting and shading effects; examples that demonstrate how to make use of textures for a wide variety of effects and as part of other techniques; examples of screen-space techniques, shadowing, tessellation and geometry shaders, noise, and animation.The OpenGL Shading Language 4.0 Cookbook provides examples of modern shading techniques that can be used as a starting point for programmers to expand upon to produce modern, interactive, 3D computer graphics applications.
Muhammad Mobeen Movania
OpenGL is the leading cross-language, multi-platform API used by masses of modern games and applications in a vast array of different sectors. Developing graphics with OpenGL lets you harness the increasing power of GPUs and really take your visuals to the next level.OpenGL Development Cookbook is your guide to graphical programming techniques to implement 3D mesh formats and skeletal animation to learn and understand OpenGL.OpenGL Development Cookbook introduces you to the modern OpenGL. Beginning with vertex-based deformations, common mesh formats, and skeletal animation with GPU skinning, and going on to demonstrate different shader stages in the graphics pipeline. OpenGL Development Cookbook focuses on providing you with practical examples on complex topics, such as variance shadow mapping, GPU-based paths, and ray tracing. By the end you will be familiar with the latest advanced GPU-based volume rendering techniques.