Chapter 3. Understanding OpenGL
My hope is that the ability to make explanations more natural will cause more programmers to discover the joys of literate programming because I believe it’s quite a pleasure to combine verbal and mathematical skill. But . . . perhaps I’m hoping for too much. | ||
| --Donald Knuth | ||
What Does OpenGL Do?
OpenGL was designed to be the easily transportable standard high-end 3D graphics API for the next decade. OpenGL implementations exist for various X Windows, OS/2, Microsoft Windows 95 and NT implementations running on Sun, DEC, and SGI platforms. OpenGL provides a standard interface and standard functionality for rendering high-quality 3D graphics—a design intended to foster the acceptance of OpenGL across a wide variety ...
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