OpenGL Insights

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Discovering

In this section, we discover many facets of OpenGL: teaching modern OpenGL in

academia; using OpenGL on the web with WebGL; tessellation shaders in OpenGL

4.0; procedural textures; the safety critical variant, OpenGL SC; and multi-GPU

OpenGL and CUDA interop.

OpenGL enjoys widespread use in computer graphics courses around the world.

Now-depreciated OpenGL features such as fixed-function lighting, immediate mode,

and built-in transforms made the barrier to entry low. However, modern OpenGL

has removed many of these features, resulting in a lean API that exposes the func-

tionality of the underlying hardware. Academia has taken these changes ...