Optimize OpenGL Fragment Shader - opengl

Question

I have a vertex/fragment shader that draws a rectangle performing many calculations based on a texture. (It blends pixels, modifies them, etc). The thing is that each rectangle and the pixels it contains will not change. I only move the entire rectangle(s) around and zoom them.
Is there any way to optimize the fragment shader since the rectangles do not really need to be recomputed?

Answer 1

So, if I understood you correctly you compute those rectangles once and then want to reuse them? This kind of task is solved by rendering to a texture and then use the generated textures further on.
Render to texture is easiest done through Framebuffer Objects.
EDIT: A simple example for using FBO to render to texture
// test_fbo_teapot.cpp
#include <GL/glew.h> // Uses GLEW for extension loading
#include <GL/glut.h> // Uses GLUT as framework
// Check those are on your system for compilation
// and if not please install them.
#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
namespace render
{
int width, height;
float aspect;
void init();
void reshape(int width, int height);
void display();
int const fbo_width = 512;
int const fbo_height = 512;
GLuint fb, color, depth;
};
void idle();
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode( GLUT_RGBA | GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_DEPTH );
glutCreateWindow("FBO test");
glutDisplayFunc(render::display);
glutReshapeFunc(render::reshape);
glutIdleFunc(idle);
glewInit();
render::init();
glutMainLoop();
return 0;
}
void idle()
{
glutPostRedisplay();
}
void CHECK_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS()
{
GLenum status;
status = glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER);
switch(status) {
case GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE:
break;
case GL_FRAMEBUFFER_UNSUPPORTED:
/* choose different formats */
break;
default:
/* programming error; will fail on all hardware */
throw "Framebuffer Error";
}
}
namespace render
{
float const light_dir[]={1,1,1,0};
float const light_color[]={1,0.95,0.9,1};
void init()
{
glGenFramebuffers(1, &fb);
glGenTextures(1, &color);
glGenRenderbuffers(1, &depth);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, fb);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, color);
glTexImage2D( GL_TEXTURE_2D,
0,
GL_RGBA,
fbo_width, fbo_height,
0,
GL_RGBA,
GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
NULL);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, color, 0);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, depth);
glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT24, fbo_width, fbo_height);
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, depth);
CHECK_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS();
}
void reshape(int width, int height)
{
render::width=width;
render::height=height;
aspect=float(width)/float(height);
glutPostRedisplay();
}
void prepare()
{
static float a=0, b=0, c=0;
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, fb);
glViewport(0,0,fbo_width, fbo_height);
glClearColor(1,1,1,0);
glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT );
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(45, 1, 1, 10);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);
glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glDisable(GL_CULL_FACE);
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, light_dir);
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_DIFFUSE, light_color);
glTranslatef(0,0,-5);
glRotatef(a, 1, 0, 0);
glRotatef(b, 0, 1, 0);
glRotatef(c, 0, 0, 1);
glutSolidTeapot(0.75);
a=fmod(a+0.1, 360.);
b=fmod(b+0.5, 360.);
c=fmod(c+0.25, 360.);
}
void intermediary()
{
}
void final()
{
static float a=0, b=0, c=0;
glBindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
glViewport(0,0, width, height);
glClearColor(1,1,1,1);
glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT );
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(45, aspect, 1, 10);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(0,0,-5);
glRotatef(b, 0, 1, 0);
b=fmod(b+0.5, 360.);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, color);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
glDisable(GL_LIGHTING);
float cube[][5]=
{
{-1, -1, -1, 0, 0},
{ 1, -1, -1, 1, 0},
{ 1, 1, -1, 1, 1},
{-1, 1, -1, 0, 1},
{-1, -1, 1, -1, 0},
{ 1, -1, 1, 0, 0},
{ 1, 1, 1, 0, 1},
{-1, 1, 1, -1, 1},
};
unsigned int faces[]=
{
0, 1, 2, 3,
1, 5, 6, 2,
5, 4, 7, 6,
4, 0, 3, 7,
3, 2, 6, 7,
4, 5, 1, 0
};
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glEnableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 5*sizeof(float), &cube[0][0]);
glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 5*sizeof(float), &cube[0][3]);
glCullFace(GL_BACK);
glDrawElements(GL_QUADS, 24, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, faces);
glCullFace(GL_FRONT);
glDrawElements(GL_QUADS, 24, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, faces);
glDisableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glDisableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
}
void display()
{
prepare();
intermediary();
final();
glutSwapBuffers();
}
};