Metal by Example: High-performance graphics and data-parallel programming for iOS

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Metal is a revolutionary new 3D graphics and data-parallel API for iOS that unlocks the potential of Apple's mobile devices like never before.

From this book, you will learn how to use Metal to perform common graphics programming tasks and implement cutting-edge techniques in your game or scientific visualization applications.

Metal by Example is designed to help experienced programmers get up-to-speed with this new API and make the most of the powerful hardware in the iOS devices of their users. After an overview of framework basics, the book goes on to present, on a chapter-by-chapter basis, self-contained techniques for using Metal to its fullest extent.

This book covers the Metal framework as of iOS 8. All sample code is in Objective-C.