This book is not about the most advanced topics of computer graphics. It does not stop at the mere basics, but a range of advanced topics (advanced shaders, shadows, game physics) are covered by volume 2.

The topics that are covered include

• 2D and 3D transformations
• 3D viewing • Light models and shading
• Visible surface detection
• Surface detail (texture mapping etc)
• Collision detection and handling
• Large world management (high level VSD, LOD, scene graphs)
• Shader programming (GLSL)
• Ray-tracing and radiosity
• Low-level algorithms (Bresenham, flood fill, scan conversion)
• Anti-aliasing

OpenGL 3.2 is used for real-life examples, but this is not an OpenGL book, it is a computer graphics book. For learning OpenGL as such, there are other books.