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OpenGl Rendering
Opengl renders everything in vertices and triangles.
Why triangles? - Cause triangle is the only shape with least number of side and formed with minimum vertices for a polygon.
Understanding the Rendering
Opengl has three types of object which are involved in renderering. This is also used in something called the batch renderering.
Batch Rendering is a technique where all of the vertices are stored prehand and and drawn all together in a single draw call. This is more efficient
as it reduces gpu and cpu usage whereas a 1000 draws uses both the cpu and gpu drastically, hence batch rendering is more efficient.
VBO, VAO & IBO
VBO: The VBO is the vertex buffer object which contains the vertices of triangles.
VAO: The VAO is the vertex attrib object which contains the position, color and differents attributes of a vertex.
IBO: The IBO is the index buffer object which is responsible for the rendering of each vertex. It contains the sequence in which the vertices should be drawn.