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Detailed Index to OpenGL Information

• Overviews 
• Frequently Asked Question Lists 
• OpenGL Tutorials 
• Miscellaneous Information 
• OpenGL Implementation Information 
• Silicon Graphics OpenGL Documentation 
• Books on OpenGL 
• Technical Information 
• OpenGL Extensions 
• OpenGL Benchmarks 
• Architectural Review Board 
• Sample Code 
• OpenGL-based Rendering Techniques 
• Gaming with OpenGL 
• OpenGL with ... 
• Ada 
• Fortran 
• Java 
•  OpenGL for ... 
• BeOS 
• Linux 
• Macintosh 
• NeXTStep 
• OS/2 
• WinNT/95/98 
• WinNT/95/98 by SGI 
• X Windows 
• OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) (a platform-independent windowing API for OpenGL) 
• Mesa 3D Graphics Library (freeware OpenGL-like implementation) 
• Software & Applications 
• Software Distributions (by ftp) 
• Free OpenGL-related Software 
• Publically Available OpenGL-based applications 
• Courses on OpenGL 
• Personalities 
• Vendor Support 
• Graphics Hardware Designed for OpenGL 
• Higher-level OpenGL libraries 
• OpenGL in Japan 
• 3D and 2D file formats and sample files 
• Mailing Lists 
• Newsgroups 
• Random Related Links 

OpenGL Overviews

• The www.opengl.org Web Site 
• OpenGL 1.2 Features and Capabilities 
• OpenGL WWW Center 
• Yahoo OpenGL pointers page 
• Boston Univeristy's OpenGL Basics 
• Using OpenGL to Create 2D and 3D Graphics 
• The OpenGL Page (Germany) 
• How OpenGL differs from IRIS GL 
• The OpenGL Graphics System: A Specification,Version 1.1 (PostScript) 
• Byte Magazine: OpenGL's Command Structure  
• Notes on the new polygon tessellator in GLU version 1.2 
• The OpenGL Graphics System Utility Library (the GLU 1.2 spec) in PostScript  
• OpenGL 1.0 (IRIX 5.3) man pages, hosted from Germany 
• Online OpenGL manual pages (OpenGL, GLU, and GLX) 
• Another OpenGL 1.1 HTML man page site (in Germany)   
• The Design of the OpenGL Graphics Interface (PostScript) 

OpenGL Frequently Asked Question Lists

• Hypertext OpenGL FAQ 
• GLUT FAQ  
• IRIS Performer FAQ 
• Open Inventor FAQ 

OpenGL Tutorials

• Nate Robin's OpenGL Tutor programs (interactive OpenGL feature demos) 
• SIGGRAPH 97: Hypertext Advanced Rendering course notes 
• OpenGL Survival Kit Tutorial 
• OpenGL tutor programs demonstrate OpenGL rendering options 
• HP's Volume Rendering Technique Comparison: Raycasting vs. 3D Texture Mapping 
• Brian Paul's OpenGL Portability Notes 
• Brian Paul's Using OpenGL Extensions 
• Using Sam Leffler's libtiff with OpenGL and GLUT 
• Camera Positioning for Beginners in OpenGL 
• druid's GL Journal 

OpenGL Implementation Information

• 1997 SIGGRAPH/EuroGraphics Workshop on Graphics Hardware: Realizing OpenGL, two implementations of one architecture 
• Graphics Interface '95: System Support for OpenGL Direct Rendering (PostScript) 
• X Tech '94: X Server Multirendering for OpenGL and PEX (PostScript) 
• Connectathon '96: GLX, the protocol for networked OpenGL (SGI Showcase) 
• Software OpenGL: Architecture and Implementation 
• Solaris OpenGL 1.0 Implementation and Performance Guide 
• HP's Volume Rendering Extensions for OpenGL 
• The OpenGL Stream Codec: A Specification 
• The OpenGL Character Renderer: A Specification 
• Mesa Implementation Notes 
• An Overview of Microsoft's OpenGL Driver Models 
• Solaris OpenGL Architecture 
• The Design and Analysis of a Cache Architecture for Texture Mapping 
• Parallel 3D Graphics Rendering on Multiprocessor Machines (abstract) 
• Hewlett-Packard's Local / Remote OpenGL Rendering 
• High-Performance Graphics Hardware Design Requirements 
• Chip Start-Ups Add New Dimensions To 3-D Game 

Technical Information

• 1997 SIGGRAPH/EuroGraphics Workshop on Graphics Hardware: Realizing OpenGL, two implementations of one architecture 
• Is your X code ready for 64-bit? 
• OpenGL Render Serving with GLR 
• Pipelined Multiprocessor Movie Compression of Hardware Rendered Scenes 
• OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) Specification, version 3 (PostScript) 
• Connectathon '96: GLX, the protocol for networked OpenGL (SGI Showcase) 
• Graphics Interface '95: System Support for OpenGL Direct Rendering (PostScript) 
• X Tech '94: X Server Multirendering for OpenGL and PEX (PostScript) 
• X Tech '95: D11: a high-performance, protocol-optional, transport-optional window system with X11 compatibility and semantics (PostScript) 
• The Silicon Graphics X Server, IRIX 4.0.5 (PostScript) 
• A Three Color Cursor for Silicon Graphics Workstations 
• Way cool, way fast OpenGL rendering techniques 
• A Simple OpenGL-based API for Texture Mapped Text 
• Shadows, Lighting, Reflections, and Textures all at Once. 
• Achieving Quality PostScript output for OpenGL 
• Rendering a Magic Halo with OpenGL 
• Fast OpenGL-based "in place" scale & bias technique 
• OpenGL-based Real-Time Shadows with Stenciled Shadow Volumes 
• Intel Procedural Shading w/MMX app notes 

Silicon Graphics OpenGL Documentation

• OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems (IRIX 6.4 version) 
• The OpenGL Porting Guide (IRIX 6.4 version) 

Books on OpenGL

• The OpenGL Programming Guide, Second Edition 
• OpenGL Programming Guide (2nd ed) Errata 
• OpenGL Reference Manual, 2nd edition 
• Addison-Wesley's OpenGL Technical Library 
• Info on Programming OpenGL for the X Window System 
• Programming OpenGL for the X Window System : table of contents 
• OpenGL SuperBible 
• OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT 
• Interactive Computer Graphics A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL (college textbook) 
• Ordering Sun OpenGL Software Manuals 
• Grafikprogrammierung mit OpenGL (in German) 
• POWER-3D: High Speed 3D Graphics in Windows 95/NT 
• Hewlett Packard's OpenGL Implementation Guide 
• OpenGL Technical Library 

OpenGL Extensions

• General OpenGL Extension Information 
• Multi-vendor OpenGL Extensions 
• Hewlett Packard OpenGL Extensions 
• IBM OpenGL Extensions 
• Intel OpenGL Extensions 
• Microsoft OpenGL Extensions 
• Portable Graphics OpenGL Extensions 
• Silicon Graphics OpenGL Extensions 
• Sun OpenGL Extensions 

OpenGL Benchmarks

• OpenGL Performance Characterization Project 
• What's This Thing Called "Viewperf"? 
• Download the Viewperf Benchmark 
• OpenGL Performance Characterization (dated info) 
• SGI's overview of the viewperf benchmark 
• 4th WAVE's viewperf results (UNOFFICIAL) for Windows 95 and NT accelerators 
• An Application-specific OpenGL Benchmark Harness 
• Indy3D, an OpenGL benchmark by Sense8 Corporation and Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc. 
• OpenGL Benchmarking example code and results 

OpenGL Architectural Review Board

• OpenGL Architectural Review Board main home page 
• Minutes of the 22 August 1994 OpenGL Advisory Forum 
• Notes from the 26 February 1996 OpenGL Architectural Review Board Meeting 
• Notes from the 14 May 1996 OpenGL Architectural Review Board Meeting 
• Notes from the 20 August 1996 OpenGL Architectural Review Board Meeting 
• Old Architectural Review Board Meeting Notes 
• HP Joins OpenGL Architectural Review Board (ARB) 
• Bylaws of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board 
• Related organization: Large Model Visualization API Consortium 

OpenGL Sample Code

• Sample Programs From the OpenGL Programming Guide (the Red Book) 
• OpenGL Simple Samples 
• More sophisticated OpenGL Samples 
• GLUT Sample Programs w/ Source Code 
• Sample Code from the X Journal Magazine: OpenGL With Xlib and Motif Widgets 
• Useful Tools for developing OpenGL code see descriptions here 

OpenGL-based Rendering Techniques

• Way cool, way fast OpenGL rendering techniques 

• Alvy Smith 
• on "Image Compositing Fundamentals" 
• on "A Pixel is Not a Little Square" 
• on "Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing" 
• on "Varities of Digital Painting" 
• on "Gamma Correction" 
• Angus Dorbie's Performer Pages 
• BSP Tree: Implementing and Using BSP Trees: Fast 3-D sorting 
• Caustics: OpenGL-rendering of Underwater Caustics 
• Constructing Triangular Irregular Networks 
• Collision Detection 
• Converters 
• Converting sets of triangles with shared edges into triangle strips 
• STRIPE: a software tool that converts a polygonal model into triangle strips 
• A library for converting DXF (AutoCAD) files to OpenGL display lists 
• Culling 
• Fast Backface Culling Using Normal Masks (paper) (slides) 
• Hierarchical Occlusion Maps and Occlusion Culling (paper) 
• Hewlett-Packard on OpenGL Occlusion Culling 
• Graphics Gems Source Code Archive (useful to OpenGL programmers) 
• Journal of Graphics Tools 
• Lighting, Shadows, & Reflections 
• Fast Soft Shadows: Technical Sketch 
• Fast Soft Shadows: Paper (color) 
• Introduction to casting shadows in OpenGL/Mesa 
• Pipeline Rendering: Interactive Refractions, Reflections, and Shadows 
• Rendering Fast reflections with OpenGL 
• Shadows, Lighting, Reflections, and Textures all at Once. 
• OpenGL-based Quality Real-Time Shadows 
• Shadow Generation for Realtime Simulation 
• Motion Capture in OpenGL 
• Normal Generation with Preservation of Edges 
• Particle system explosion demo 
• Paul Diefenbach's Thesis - Pipeline Rendering: Interaction and Realism Through Hardware-Based Multi-Pass Rendering 
• Physically Based Modeling: Principles and Practice (SIGGRAPH 97 course notes) 
• PostScript: Achieving Quality PostScript output for OpenGL 
• Quaternions Used to Represent Rotation 
• Quaternions Used for Animation in OpenGL 
• Rendering a Magic Halo with OpenGL 
• Scale & Bias: Fast OpenGL-based "in place" scale & bias technique 
• Terrain Simplification (paper) 
• Terrain for Virtual Environments 
• Terrain Rendering: Continuous LOD 
• Textures, Texture Mapping, & Projective Texture Mapping 
• Texture Mapping as a Fundamental Drawing Primitive 
• A Simple OpenGL-based API for Texture Mapped Text 
• Texture Mapping Filter Techniques 
• Virtualized OpenGL Light Sources for Efficient Multi-Light Source Lighting 
• OpenGL Projtected Textures 
• Multi-pass Texturing in OpenGL for Pseudo-procedural Effects 
• Hin Jang on Tri-Linear MIP Mapping 
• Hin Jang on Projective Texture Mapping 
• Hin Jang on Perspective Projection 
• Hewlett-Packard Texture Mapping Tutorial 
• Using paletted textures in OpenGL with MFC 
• 360 Degree Panoramic Textures 
• Tubing & Extrusion: The GLE Tubing and Extrusion Library Home Page (source code) 
• Interactive Volume Rendering Using Advanced Graphics Architectures 

Gaming with OpenGL

• OpenGL Games 
• OpenGL Games Page 
• SpaceDuel3D, a multiplayer duel in outer space (Solaris, Linux) 
• Games that have OpenGL acceleration support 
• Andy Johnson's Battalion Page (A game where a monster blows up and destroys stuff.) 
• Andy Johnson's Graveyard (An Open Inventor based graveyard shooter.) 
• Free Rubik's Cube Game for Windows 95 & NT 
• OpenGL Asteriods 
• 3Dfx's GLQuake info (with screen snapshots) 
• Download OpenGL Quake for Windows 95 
• Download SGI Port of Id Software's Quake using OpenGL 
• OpenGL-based Open Inventor games for SGI machines 
• 3D Mines V1.2 for SGI using OpenGL-based Open Inventor 
• MutliGen's OpenGL-based GameGen II Realtime 3D authoring for entertainment 
• OpenGL-based bzflag "capture the flag with virtual tanks" game 
• KnightCap: OpenGL-based 3D front-end to supercomputer chess 
• OpenGL Game Development Mailing List 
• Keith Harrison's Quake movement model (the unzipped winmain.cpp) 
• Keith Harrison's OpenGL Quake map viewer 
• Keith Harrison's Fullscreen OpenGL with DirectDraw source code 
• OpenGL Quake info (mostly for players, not programmers) 
• Top Game Developers Call on Microsoft to Actively Support OpenGL 
• Game Center: Developers demand support for OpenGL 
• Game Center: Carmack on OpenGL vs. Direct3D 
• Computer & Net Player: Game Developer Petition 
• 2nd Open Letter to Microsoft about supporting OpenGL for games 
• Wired Magazine covers the OpenGL vs Direct3D debate 
• Games that have OpenGL hardware acceleration support 
• I want my OpenGL (coverage of the 2nd Open Letter) 
• OpenGL-based Conquest dice game 
• OpenGL vs Direct3D, a history 
• Phil Frisbie's EGLE - Enhanced OpenGL Engine 
• Faster 3D Game Graphics by Not Drawing What Is Not Seen 
• SciTech's MGL 4.0 high-performance PC graphics libraries (free) 
• Flight Gear Flight Simulator 
• Dynamix's Starsiege Dumps Direct3D 
• OpenQuake 
• 3D Engines List 
• The GLQuake2 Primary LZ - Your One Stop GLQuake2 Shop 
• Game Developer Magazine Companion Source Page 
• An OpenGL Update for Game Developers[11.21.97] 

OpenGL with Ada

• OpenGL Ada Bindings Development 
• OpenGL Ada FTP site 
• OpenGL Ada Bindings Development 

OpenGL with Fortran

• f90gl: Fortran Interface for Mesa and GLUT 
• A Fortran 90 Interface for OpenGL 

OpenGL with Java

• Magician OpenGL Interface (mirror site) 
• An Unofficial port of OpenGL to Java 
• Reference page to the unofficial port of OpenGL to Java 
• Tree: Java interface for Mesa 3D graphics 
• JavaOpenGL 1.0a3 
• JavaGL 3D Graphics Library for Java 1.0b3.1 

OpenGL for BeOS

• Be Computer reports they have licensed OpenGL 

OpenGL for Linux

• 3D for Linux 
• Linux HOWTO on 3D (PostScript) 
• LinuxFocus magazine: Learn How to Program 3D Graphics with OpenGL 
• Linux 3D 

OpenGL for Macintosh

• Conix Graphics OpenGL for the Macintosh 
• OpenGL applications for the Mac 

OpenGL for NeXTStep

OpenGL for OS/2

• The OpenGL on OS/2 API 
• OpenGL For OS/2 Developer Mailing List 
• Latest OS/2 OpenGL binaries for Intel x86-based PCs 
• Escape GL, OS/2 4.0 OpenGL screen saver 
• OpenGL on OS/2 API documentation (PGL) 
• Virgo's OpenGL on OS/2 experiences 

OpenGL for Windows 95 and NT

• OpenGL components for Delphi and C++Builder 
• Using OpenGl with Windows 95 (several Win32 OpenGL examples with source code) 
• Windows NT OpenGL: Getting Started 
• OpenGL I: Quick Start 
• OpenGL II: Windows Palettes in RGBA Mode 
• OpenGL III: Building an OpenGL C++ Class 
• OpenGL IV: Color Index Mode 
• OpenGL V: Translating Windows DIBs 
• OpenGL VI: Rendering on DIBs with PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP 
• OpenGL VII: Scratching the Surface of Texture Mapping 
• OpenGL VII: wglUseFontOutlines 
• Using OpenGL in Visual C++ Version 4.x 
• NewMedia: Reviews of Windows NT OpenGL Cards 
• OpenGL Programming with 3dfx's Voodoo Graphics 
• Celeste Fowler's backtrace demo for Win32 
• OpenGL standard delivers 3-D graphics for Windows NT and 95 
• Byte Magazine takes notice of the OpenGL vs Direct3D debate 
• OpenGL support for Visual Basic 5 
• Scrsave: Source Code for OpenGL Screen Savers 
• GLTRACE.ZIP OpenGL tracing utility by John Miles (of Digital Anvil) (the README.TXT) 
• Demonstration of OpenGL Texture Mapping 
• ClassGL: MFC classes for using OpenGL with Windows 
• OpenGL ICD & MCD OpenGL driver models for Windows 95 and NT 
• All that GLitters : How Microsoft's drive to dominate 3D has left them in a poorly rendered corner 
• Developers bash Windows game interface 
• Alan GARNY's Web: Programming (OpenGL) 
• ClassGL - MFC Extension for OpenGL and 2D/3D applications programming 

OpenGL for Windows from SGI

• OpenGL for Windows from Silicon Graphics 
• SGI OpenGL extension: EXT_compiled_vertex_array 
• SGI OpenGL extension: EXT_cull_vertex 
• SGI OpenGL extension: EXT_index_array_formats 
• SGI OpenGL extension: EXT_index_func 
• SGI OpenGL extension: EXT_index_material 
• SGI OpenGL extension: EXT_index_texture 
• SGI OpenGL extension: EXT_paletted_texture 
• Email bug reports on SGI OpenGL for Windows 
• An OpenGL Update for Game Developers 

OpenGL for the X Window System

• GLX 1.2 Specification in HTML 
• OpenGL & X: An Introduction 
• OpenGL & X: Using OpenGL with Xlib 
• OpenGL & X: Integrating OpenGL with Motif 
• Programming with OpenGL 
• Overlay-extended Motif-based OpenGL Widget 
• Hints on using OpenGL 

OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT)

• Getting the GLUT 3.6 software distribution 
• OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) Specification, version 3 (PostScript) 
• Alternative GLUT spec site (UC San Diego) 
• Frequently Asked GLUT Questions 
• GLUT 3.6 for Windows NT & Windows 95 
• Pre-compiled Win32 for Intel GLUT 3.6 DLLs for Windows 95 & NT 
• Pre-compiled Win32 for Alpha GLUT 3.5 DLLs for Windows NT 
• A gallery of GLUT programs with snapshots and source code 
• Using GLUT with Cygnus Solutions Win32 GNU-C/C++ compilers 
• OpenGL/GLUT tutorial for Visual C++ and Windows 95 
• A Brief microUI (MUI) Tutorial (a GLUT-based user interface toolkit) 
• GlutMaster: C++ wrapper classes for GLUT programming 
• GLUT and Event Driven Programming 
• GLUT Tutorial 
• GLUT for the Macintosh 
• Example of GLUT Borland C compiler project 
• Older Versions 
• GLUT 3.3 for Windows NT & Windows 95 
• GLUT 3.2 for Windows NT (old version) 

Mesa 3D Graphics Library (freeware OpenGL-like implementation)

• The Mesa 3-D graphics library 
• Mesa Frequently Asked Questions 
• Mesa User's Guide 
• Mesa for the Amiga 
• Linux Mesa hardware support for 3DLab's GLINT chips 
• Adding GLX extension to XFree86 using Mesa 2.0 
• More about adding GLX to XFree86 with Mesa 
• Tree: Java interface for Mesa 3D graphics 
• Mesa hardware support for Monster 3D (3Dfx Voodoo based) board 
• Mesa DirectDraw support 
• Mesa 3D Graphics Library for MacOS 
• Fixes for compiling Mesa 2.3 with Cygnus Win32 tools 
• NASA's OpenGL on free UNIXes page 
• Linux/Mesa/GLINT 

Free OpenGL-related Software

• gltt 1.0, library for reading and drawing TrueType fonts in any OpenGL application 
• An Unofficial port of OpenGL to Java 
• Reference page to the unofficial port of OpenGL to Java 
• TIGER 1.2 (Tcl based Interpretative Graphics EnviRonment) using OpenGL 
• Forms Library, a graphical user interface toolkit for X (has OpenGL canvas) 
• Togl - a Tk OpenGL widget 
• TkSM - an OpenGL based 3D modeling extension for Tcl/Tk 
• AutoDesk DXF file format renderer using OpenGL 
• The Visualization Toolkit 
• Source code and executable for Quake database walk-through using OpenGL 
• PyOpenGL: The Python Tk-OpenGL Module 
• TRAWN: Tron-like cycle game for SGIs 
• Matumot's OpenGL Paradise (includes fonts and Windows example code) 
• A free, partial Open Inventor Implementation: Apprentice 
• repGL: an IRIS GL to OpenGL porting library 
• Files in GEO format, together with OpenGL geo viewer 
• Victor Ng-Thow-Hing's quadview C++ class for 4 object views 
• Python OpenGL Demos 
• GL-Space, free 3D modeler for the X Window System 
• 3Dom: 3D Object Modeler 
• OpenGL source code examples 
• AC3D shareware modeler 
• Geomview - interactive geometry viewer/manipulator 
• GEM, Graphics Environment for Multimedia (image processing chains) 
• GLP, an OpenGL to PostScript Class Library (C++) 
• GLand, an OpenGL Terrain Viewer (views US Geologic Survey data) 
• MolScript 2.0, complex molecule visualization tool 
• Ssystem: Solar System Simulator 

Software Distributions (by ftp)

• Getting the GLUT 3.6 software distribution 
• The X Journal OpenGL sample program from "OpenGL and X" series 

Available OpenGL-based Software

• OpenSpace, a distributed discrete-event modeling and simulation package 
• Vis5D, a system for interactive visualization of large 5-D gridded data sets 
• Softoholic OGL ActiveX Control 
• Dropit 1.1 (A blockout clone.) 
• GMV (General Mesh Viewer) 
• RenderPark: A Photorealistic Rendering Tool 
• View3D (Motif/OpenGL viewer widget) 
• OpenGL extensions to AL, the Animation Language 
• i3D: A High Speed 3D Web Browser 
• Sculptor NT: Free Form Modeling for Windows 
• WebLab Viewer: PC-based molecular viewer 
• MOLMOL: MOLecule analysis and MOLecule display 
• Solaris OpenGL(R) 1.0 Application Partners 
• Computer Graphics World: Microsoft Softimage on NT 
• DIR3D, an OpenGL-based 3D file manager for Windows 95 & NT 
• CAVE User's Guide for OpenGL-based fully immersive virtual reality 
• PoVSB, a Windows 95/NT based modeler for the Persistence of Vision Raytracer 
• GLPrint, OpenGL library providing print language support for OpenGL apps 
• RenderSoft VRML Editor 
• ER Mapper 5.5 (geographical data viewer and processor) 
• SoftF/X Pro animation studio (Windows modeling software) 
• Silly Space 3 (VRML Edition) - Interactive 3D Space Sculptor 
• On Station Cave Mapping Software 
• Crystal 3D IMPACT! Pro 3D animation software 
• Schamel Software 
• Cosmo Software 
• TreeDesigner 
• PoVSB Home Page 
• SpilinEditor 
• PortalRend home page 
• X-Plane Home Page 
• Sense8 Software - A World-Leader in VR Development Software Tools 

Graphics Hardware Designed for OpenGL

• Silicon Graphics Onyx InfiniteReality and RealityEngine 
• Evans & Sutherland Freedom Series Whitepaper 
• Sun SPARCstation 20 with Freedom Series 
• Mitsubishi Intros New 3D-RAM Product 
• Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 3D Graphics Accelerator Family 
• Evans & Sutherland: Univeral 3D Architecture for NT 
• SGI InfiniteReality Graphics - Power Through Complexity 
• 3Dlabs: Permedia and GLINT Delta - New Generation Silicon for 3D Graphics 
• S3: ViRGE/VX 
• Leadtek: WinFast 3D L2200 
• Leadtek: WinFast 3D L2500 (Glint 500TX) 
• MicroStep: AGC-GL300 / AGC-GL300 Pro 
• MicroSetp: AGC-GL500 Pro 

Higher-level OpenGL libraries

• OpenGL Optimizer for CAD applications 
• OpenGL Optimizer Frequently Asked Questions 
• CAD/CAM/CAE Graphics Standards Consortium (CGSC) standardization effort for OpenGL Optimizer 
• OpenGL Optimizer offered as CAD rendering API 
• IRIS Performer visual simulation toolkit 
• IRIS Performer Frequently Asked Questions 
• Open Inventor object-oriented 3D toolkit 
• Open Inventor Frequently Asked Questions 
• SGI Documentation: Open Inventor 2.1 Porting and Performance Tips 
• Apprentice: An Open Inventor freeware clone 
• NeTpower's Open Inventor Toolkit for Microsoft Windows 
• ImageVision image processing toolkit 
• ImageVision Frequently Asked Questions 
• PC Week: OpenGL to be refined; new 3-D tool kit due 

OpenGL Personalities

• Brian Paul (Mesa implementor) 
• Nate Robins (Windows GLUT co-implementor) 
• Mason Woo (OpenGL Programming Guide coauthor) 
• Philip Winston's Graphics Page 
• Professor Edward S. Angel (OpenGL graphics textbook author) 
• Richard Wright (OpenGL Super Bible coauthor) 
• Michael Gold (Cosmo OpenGL developer) 
• Chris Hecker (OpenGL petition organizer) 
• Bill Mitchell (Fortran 90 bindings for OpenGL) 
• Linas Vepstas (early OpenGL participant at IBM) 
• Henk Kok (OpenGL examples page) 
• Michael Sweet (OpenGL co-author, GLP author) 
• Phil Frisbie (OpenGL Quake viewer author) 
• Gustav Tax?n (Swedish OpenGL enthusiast) 
• Chris Hecker's Home Page 

Vendor Support for OpenGL

• SunSoft's native OpenGL 3D graphics product 
• Solaris OpenGL 1.1 Implementation and Performance Guide (PostScript) 
• Solaris OpenGL(R) Ultra Creator3D Edition 
• Download OpenGL 1.1 for Solaris 
• OpenGL 1.1 for Solaris Frequently Asked Questions 
• Sun Improves Solaris OpenGL Support 
• Sun Ships Native OpenGL for UltraSPARC Workstations 
• OpenGL & Open Inventor for HP 9000 Available 
• CAD/CAM Leaders Define OpenGL-based API Standard 
• EE Times: How the [3D] API war began 
• ATI Technologies releases OpenGL drivers 
• What is Microsoft's 3D graphics API strategy really? 
• Download 3Dfx's OpenGL drivers 
• Hewlett-Packard's OpenGL Compatibility Mode For Legacy Workstations 
• Microsoft and Silicon Graphics Define Distribution and Support of OpenGL on the Windows Platform 

Courses using OpenGL

• SIGGRAPH 96: Programming with OpenGL: An Introduction 
• SIGGRAPH 96: Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Rendering 
• SIGGRAPH 96: OpenGL and Window System Integration 
• SIGGRAPH 97: Hypertext Advanced Rendering course notes 

• Austrialian National University, Computer Graphics 
• Boston University, Introduction to Computer Graphics 
• Boston University, Introduction to Computer Graphics (CS 480) 
• Boston University, Graduate Introduction to Computer Graphics (CS 680) 
• Boston University, Computer Graphics (MN 735) 
• Brock University, Computer Graphics (COSC 3P98) 
• California State University, Chico (CSCI-231) 
• California State University, Hayward: Principles of Computer Graphics (CS 6840) 
• Cal Poly State University, Computer Graphics (CSC 455) 
• Caltech, Computer Graphics Laboratory (CS 174) 
• Carleton College: Computer Graphics 
• Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Graphics I (15-462) 
• Columbia University, Computer Graphics (CS W4160y) 
• Foothill College, Computer Graphics Programming 1 (CIS 53A) 
• Foothill College, Computer Graphics Programming 2 (CIS 53B) 
• Gordon College, Computer Graphics (CS 373) 
• George Mason University, Interactive Computer Graphics (CS 652) 
• Georgia Tech, Advanced Computer Graphics (CS4391) 
• Harvey Mudd College, Computer Graphics (CS 155) 
• Linfield College, Advanced Computer Graphics (CS 475) 
• Middlesex University, Games Development with OpenGL (COM 3310) 
• Notre Dame, Computer Graphics (CSE 466) 
• Oakland University, Computer Graphics (CSE 455/555) 
• Princeton University, Computer Graphics (CS426) 
• Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), 2D1323: Datorgrafik med interaktion 
• Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), 2D1593: Grafik och interaktionsprogrammering 
• Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), 2D1413: Avancerad grafik och interaktion 
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Interactive 3D Graphics and Animation (CS493) 
• Silicon Graphics, OpenGL Programming 1 
• Silicon Graphics, OpenGL Programming 2 
• Stanford University, Introduction to Computer Graphics (CS 248) 
• Technion: Computer Graphics 
• Technion User Support Group, The OpenGL graphic system 
• Tulane University, Computer Graphics and Modeling (CPEN 461/661) 
• University of Akron, Advanced Computer Graphics (CS 3460) 
• University of California, Berkeley, Foundations of Computer Graphics (CS184) 
• University of California at Davis, Computer Graphics (ECS 175) 
• University of California at San Diego, Computer Graphics (CSE167) 
• University of Calgary, Computer Graphics 453 
• University of Heidelberg, Seminar: Grafikprogrammierung in OpenGL (in German) 
• University of Hong Kong, Computer Graphics (CS381) 
• University of Houston, Interactive Computer Graphics (CS 4370) 
• University of Illinois at Springfield, Computer Graphics (CSC 481) 
• University of Maryland Baltimore County, Graphical User Interface Programming (CMSC 491A/691A) 
• University of Missouri - Columbia, Computer Graphics I (CECS 310) 
• University of New Mexico: Computer Graphics (CS/EECE 433) 
• University of Southern Maine, Computer Graphics (COS 452) 
• University of Texas: Computer Graphics (CS354) 
• University of Toronto, Computer Graphics (CSC 418/2504) 
• University of Toronto, Current Ideas and Techniques in Computer Graphics (SCI 199) 
• University of Waterloo, Introduction to Computer Graphics (CS488/688) 
• University of Waterloo, Introduction to Computer Graphics (CS488/688) 
• Uppsala University (Sweden), Computer Graphics (MN1, 5p) 
• Wright State University, Computer Graphics (CEG476/676) 

OpenGL in Japan

• OpenGL info from SGI 
• Japanese OpenGL Mailing List Archive 
• NK-EXA's handmade "OpenGL Programming Course" 
• OpenGL Frequently Asked Questions in Japanese 
• Another OpenGL Frequently Asked Questions in Japanese 
• OpenGL for Windows with chemistry examples 
• OpenGL in Japan, '97 
• The 6th International OpenGL_Japan Seminar 
• Japanese OpenGL ML¢ä?¢ä?¢ä? 
• GLUT 3 manual (Japanese) 

3D and 2D file formats and sample files

• 3D object file formats (pointers to specifications) 
• 2D image file formats (pointers to specifications) 
• movie file formats (pointers to specifications) 
• Thomas Baier's 3D format converters 

Mailing Lists

• FindMail Communications: opengl-gamedev-l 

Newsgroups

• comp.graphics.api.opengl 

Random OpenGL Related Links

•  The Virtual Whale Project: 3D Modeling of Humpback Whales (rendered with OpenGL) 
• Virtual Whale program for Windows 95 
• Masayuki Matsumoto beside Kurt Akeley's Lotus (California "OpenGL" license plate) 
• Paper on integrating Ray Tracingwith OpenGL (???, written in German) 
• General Reality Company: OpenGL software for their 5th Glove (3D glove device) 
• A Vision Application in OpenGL 
• Parallel Motion Planning for Articulated Robots (OpenGL rendering) 
• The RenderMan Interface Specification 
• Holographic Imaging of Lines: a Texture Based Approach (leveraging OpenGL) 
• The GL Underground 
• Ed's OpenGL page (Sproingies and Superquadrics) 
• Gamasutra - Fahrenheit: No Spontaneous Combustion Here!