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• OpenGL FAQ
• An Introduction to OpenGL

The OpenGL Developer Tools 97 CD-ROM is now on the web. This is the

same content found on the CD-ROM distributed at the OpenGL booth at

SIGGRAPH 97.

• http://www.opengl.org/Developers/DevCD.html
• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/

Demo source code is included! Examples are:

• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/examples/win32_tutorial/win32_tutorial.html
• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/examples/more_samples/more_samples.html

OpenGL extension specifications:

• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/docs/extensions/EXTspecs/
• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/docs/extensions/WINspecs/
• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/docs/extensions/SGIspecs/
• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/docs/extensions/IBMspecs/
• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/docs/extensions/INTELspecs/

Introduction to OpenGL web tutorial:

• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/tutorials/allnotes/MASTER.html

OpenGL and Window System Integration course notes:

• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/tutorials/siggraph_crsenotes/html/index.htm

Nate Robin's Win32 OpenGL tutorials:

• http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/tutorials/siggraph_crsenotes/html/nrobins/index.htm

NEW! FAQ's by Hexapod (hexapod@netcom.com) are now up at

The 3 FAQ's are the Character and Animation FAQ, the Matrix and Quaternion FAQ and the Vectors and Planes FAQ

• http://www.glue.umd.edu/~rsrodger

• OpenGL WWW Center
• OpenGl.org
• Henk's OpenGL Demos
• Nate Robin's GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit)
• Silicon Graphics Flight Simulator (nice program showing off OpenGL's capabilities
• OpenGL paradise by Matumot
• Gateway to OpenGL Info (The place to find ALL info on OpenGL)
• OpenGL Performance Characterization Project (benchmarking)
• Codeshifter (a program that converts 3DS files to OpenGL display lists)

• SGI's Cosmo OpenGL (an OpenGL software implementation)
• Mesa 3D Graphics Library (based on the OpenGL implementation)
• Microsoft's OpenGL (hardware implementation)

If you have any ideas, topics, or suggestions you want me to answer please e-mail me. Last updated: September 15, 1997

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