[jitter] Re: Re: I need help, I can not find where is the problem with my patch (jit.gl.videoplane, jit.gl.s

Quote: wesley.hoke at gmail.com wrote on Thu, 02 August 2007 15:26
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> Ok,
> You don't send a videoplane to a slab.  You have some major
> misconceptions about how things work in OpenGL.  Please read the
> following _very_ carefully.
> 
> 1a) Slabs work with textures.  They take textures as input and give
> textures as output
> 1b) Slabs can also work with matrices.  When a matrix is sent to a
> slab, internally it is converted to a texture.
> 2) A videoplane is a plane in space.  It is geometry, not a texture.
> It is used to display textures in OpenGL.
> 
> HTH,
> wes
> 
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Hi

I know the conception is far more important then know how to use the object. I feel like I am the most stupid people in this community. I do feel empty even I read all the tutorials in Max/MSP/jitter because I can not understand everything even I read it more then 3 times. Please forgive me and let me ask this question: how to understand the basic concept of OpenGL for a guy who know almost nothing about programming and those related things? Is there any books or something you recommend me to do or to read?