Table of Contents
List of Figures List of Tables List of Examples
Chapter One An Introduction to Glide Why Glide? Voodoo Graphics The Rendering Engine About This Manual Other Documentation	Chapter Two Glide in Style Naming and Notational Conventions The State Machine Model Specifying Vertices Numerical Data
Chapter Three Getting Started Starting Up Driving Multiple Systems Shutting Down The Display Buffer Masking Writes to the Frame Buffer Swapping Buffers Clearing Buffers Error Handling	Chapter Four Rendering Primitives The GrVertex Structure Clipping Triangles Points Lines Convex Polygons Backface Culling Anti-aliasing
Chapter Five  Color and Lighting Specifying Colors Dithering The Color Combine Unit Gamma Correction	Chapter Six  Using the Alpha Component Specifying Alpha The Alpha Combine Unit Alpha Buffering Alpha Blending
Chapter Seven Depth Buffering Enabling Depth Buffering The Depth Test Fixed Point z buffering Floating Point w buffering Establishing a Depth Bias An Example: Hidden Surface Removal	Chapter Eight  Special Effects Fog Chroma-keying Alpha Testing Stenciling
Chapter Nine  Texture Mapping A Look at Texture Mapping and Glide Glide Textures and Texels Texel Coordinate Systems Texture Filtering Texture Clamping Mipmapping Mipmap Blending Trilinear Filtering LOD Bias Combining Textures Examples of Configuring the Texture Pipeline	Chapter Ten  Managing Texture Memory Texture Map Formats Narrow Channel Compression The Color Palette (not implemented in TMU Revision 0) Texture Memory Computing the Size of a Mipmap Querying for Available Memory Downloading Mipmaps Identifying a Mipmap as the Texel Source Loading a Mipmap into Fragmented Memory Downloading a Decompression Table or Color Palette Loading Mipmaps From Disk
Chapter Eleven  Accessing the Linear Frame Buffer Acquiring an LFB Read or Write Pointer Calculating a Pixel Address Reading from the LFB Writing to the LFB Setting LFB Write Parameters Special Effects and Linear Frame Buffer Writes Writing a Rectangle of Pixels into the LFB	Chapter Twelve  Housekeeping Routines Retrieving Configuration Information Checking System Status Utilizing Two Displays Monitoring System Performance
Chapter Thirteen  Glide Utilities A Higher Level Color Combine Function A Higher Level Alpha Combine Function A Higher Level Texture Combine Function Allocating Texture Memory Downloading Textures	Chapter Fourteen  Programming Tips and Techniques Floating Point Vertex Snapping and Area Calculations Avoiding Redundant State Setting Avoiding Screen Clears by Rendering Background Polygons Using LOD Bias To Control Texture Aliasing Linear z Buffering and Coordinate System Ranges State Coherency and Contention Between Processes Appendix A A Sample Program Appendix B Glide State Constants Glossary Index