OpenGL Insights

VII

Software

Design

Developers work with OpenGL at many levels of the software stack. Some developers

create OpenGL implementations by writing drivers or, as we will see, using another

graphics API; other developers create middleware or engines that simplify the use

of OpenGL and raise the level of abstraction; and perhaps the majority of OpenGL

developers create actual applications, whether by directly calling OpenGL or by using

OpenGL-based engines. In this section, we look at software design at each layer of

this stack. We consider implementing OpenGL ES 2.0, engines and applications

built on WebGL, making legacy OpenGL code modern, and building