This review will actually be quite quick: I haven’t finished the book and I won’t finish it.

The book was published in August 2015 and is based on OpenGL < 3. The authors may sometimes say that you can use shaders to do better, but the fact is that if you want to execute the code they propose, you need to use the backward compatibility layer, if it’s available. OpenGL was published almost a decade ago, I can’t understand why in 2015 two guys decided that a new book on scientific visualization should use an API that was deprecated a long time ago. What a waste of time.