OpenGL
OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, multi-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering. However as the rendering is done "behind the scenes" it can also be a software renderer as is the case with the OS/2 implementation, or both.
The basic OS/2 implementation of OpenGL was done in parallel with the AIX version of the system and shares much of the same code, this means that there is quite a lot of information pertinent to the OS/2 implementation to be found in old AIX OpenGL documentation.
Documentation
Files
| File Name | Comments |
|---|---|
| GLPIPE.DLL | |
| GLUT.DLL | The OpenGL Utility Toolkit DLL |
| LIBTK.DLL | |
| LIBAUX.DLL | |
| OPENGL.DLL | |
| RASTER.EXE | |
| RASTER.DLL |
Articles
- OpenGL on OS/2 by Perry Newhook
- OpenGL on OS/2 - An Introduction (Jul 1997)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - A Simple Application (Aug 1997)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - A Simple 3D Application (Sep 1997)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - A More Complex Scene (Oct 1997)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - Let There Be Light (Nov 1997)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - Let There Be Texture (Dec 1997)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - Let There Be Lit Things (Jan 1998)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - Questions and Answers (Feb 1998)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - Avoiding the Jaggies (Mar 1998)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - The Bumpy Road Ahead (Jun 1998)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - The Utility Libraries (Jul 1998)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - All About NURBS (Aug 1998)
- A Model Viewer by Perry Newhook
- OpenGL on OS/2 - A Model Viewer - Part 1 (Sep 1998)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - A Model Viewer - Part 2 (Oct 1998)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - A Model Viewer - Part 3 (Nov 1998)
- OpenGL on OS/2 - A Model Viewer - Part 4 (Dec 1998)
- V - A Free C++ Graphical User Interface Framework by Jon Hacker (May 1999)
Links
- OpenGL manual version 1.0 [opengl_man.zip]
- Wikipedia:OpenGL